Recent and current funded research

Goldsmiths Sociology has a long track record of funded research.

Our research has been funded by UK research councils, British Academy, European Union, and charities including Leverhulme, Wellcome and Joseph Rowntree.  We are also in research collaboration with industry, local and national government and public bodies. 

NameTitleFunding BodyStart Date  End Date
Fay Dennis Ripping up the rulebook: Experiments in post-pandemic substance use treatment Wellcome University Award  1 June 2022 31 May 2027 
Sreenanti Banerjee Reproductive Politics & Racial Justice ESRC SeNSS Post-Doctoral Fellowship Nov 21 Oct 22
Maisie Tomlinson Un(knowing) Animals: Critical Anthromorphism in theory, method and practice ESRC SeNSS Post-Doctoral Fellowship Oct 21 Sep 22
Rebecca Coleman Feeling, making and imagining time BA Leverhulme Small Grant Apr 21 Sept 21
Yesim Yildiz Official Archives of State Violence ESRC New Investigator Mar 20 Feb 23
Natassia Brenman 'Doing diagnosis differently': An exploration of vitality and technology in mental health ESRC SeNSS Post-Doctoral Fellowship  Nov 20  May 22 
Faten Khazaei Situated Norms: Home visits and the (re)production of social difference through child protection Swiss Natural Science Foundation Sept 20 Aug 22
Zhu Di Consumer culture of middle-class families in metropolitan China: in the process of social structural changes BA Visiting Fellowship Feb 20 May 20
Michaela Benson Britain and its overseas citizens: from decolonisation to Brexit BA Mid-Career Fellowship Jan 20 March 21
Melissa Nolas Childphotoarchive ERC Proof of Concept Jan 20 Dec 21
Caroline Knowles Program Director  BA Urban Infrastructures of Well-Being Jun 19 Dec 22
Katrina Jungnickel Politics Of Patents ERC Consolidator Grant Mar 19 Feb 24
Ella Harris Re-imagining Crisis: Pop-up Cultures and Precarious Lives in Austerity London ESRC Post Doctoral Fellowship  Oct 18 Sept 19
Kiran Grewal

Creating new social imaginaries and critical democratic communities in post-war Sri Lanka through traditional culture and art

AHRC Research Networking Highlight for Education in Conflict & Protracted Crises Dec 18 Dec 19
Kiran Grewal Building Critical, Democratic & Peaceful Communities in Post-War Sri Lanka BA Sustainable Development Programme Sept 18 Dec 21
Vikki Bell Documentality and Display BA Sustainable Development Programme Sept 18 Mar 22
Fay Dennis Mapping bodies and care practices in making people who use drugs matter Wellcome Research Fellowship Jul 18 Nov 22
Rebecca Coleman Mediating Presents: Producing ‘The Now’ in Contemporary Digital Culture Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship Jul 18 Sept 20
Francisca Gromme Valuing Life in Europe's Overseas Territories: Measuring Material and Economic Welfare in the Caribbean Netherlands BA Leverhulme Small Grant May  18 May 20
Laura Henneke UK-China Joint Research & Innovation Partnership Fund British Council Apr 18 Mar 19
Melissa Nolas Connectors ERC Starting Grant Jan 18 Sept 19
Monica Sassatelli Displaying the nation in a Cosmopolitan Age: Britain at the Venice Biennale Paul Mellon Mid-Career Fellowship Jan 18 Apr 18
Caroline Knowles Programme Director BA Cities & Infrastructure Programme Nov 17 Jun 19
Kirsten Campbell Transform: Transforming Gender Justice for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: The Gender Justice ERC Proof of Concept Sept 17 Feb 19
Sara Farris Corporate Care and Migrant Workers in Times of Crisis and Austerity Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship Sept  17 Aug  18
Caroline Knowles Serious Money: A Mobile Investigation of Plutocratic London Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship Sept  17 Aug 20
Fay Dennis

Making drug-using bodies matter: a sociological exploration of drug use and addiction beyond 'the body' 

FSHI Mildred Blaxter Postdoctoral Fellowship Jul  17 Jun 18
Michaela Benson BrExpats: Freedom of Movement, Citizenship and Brexit in the lives of Britons resident in the European Union ESRC  Jun 17 Oct 19
Catherine Rottenberg The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship Sep  16 Aug  18
Marsha Rosengarten / Emily Nicholls Distangling European HIV/AIDS Policies: Activism, Citizenship and Health (EUROPACH) Humanities in the European Research Area [HERA] Sep 16 Nov 19
Michaela Benson / Emma Jackson Above Street Level: Rethinking power, place and encounter through the Peckham skyline BA Leverhulme Small Grant Apr 16 Aug 17
Monica Greco Biopolitics and Psychosomatics: Participating Bodies Wellcome Trust Apr 16 Jul 16
Mike Upton The medicines dispute and the rise of HIV/AIDS 'denialism' in South Africa BA Leverhulme Small Grant Jan 16 Dec 16
Vikki Bell Re-emerging Pasts: Forums for Truth-telling in Contemporary Argentina and Chile ESRC Oct 15 May 17
Maria O'Reilly BA Leverhulme Small Grant Apr 15 Jul 16
Vik Loveday Precarity at Work BA Leverhulme Small Grant Apr  15 May 16
Emma Jackson ESRC Future Leader Jan 15 Dec 17
Val Gillies Troubled Families and Inter-Agency Collaboration: Lessons from Historical-Comparative ESRC Standard Grant Dec  14 Nov  15
Marsha Rosengarten, Martin Savransky & Daniel Neyland ‘Situated efficacy’ as a novel approach to interdisciplinary in the devising and delivery of effective medical and behavioural interventions Brocher Foundation Nov 14 Mar 15
Katrina Jungnickel Near Miss Project Creative Exchange Oct 14 May 15
Evelyn Ruppert Peopling Europe: How data make a people (ARITHMUS) ERC Consolidator Grant May 14 Apr 19
Marsha Rosengarten & Martin Savransky Towards a Concept of Situated Efficacy: An Alternative Mode for Collaboration between Social Science and Biomedicine BA Leverhulme Small Grant Apr 14 Mar 15
Anja Kanngieser Sounding Geography: Piloting a method for understanding how we experience our sound worlds BA Leverhulme Small Grant Apr 14 Mar 15
Mike Upton Patent Fever: HIV/AIDS and the epidemic of intellectual property FSHI Mildred Blaxter Fellowship Mar 14 Feb 15
Alison Rooke AHRC Research Grant Feb 14 May 14
Alison Rooke AHRC Research Grant Feb 14 May 14
Yasmin Gunaratnam “Go Home”: Mapping the unfolding controversy of Home Office Immigration Campaigns ESRC Urgency Grants Mechanism Nov 13 Mar 15
Anja Kanngieser Creating Worlds Together ESRC Festival of Science Nov 13 Nov 13
Nirmal Puwar War, Memory and the Art of Dialogue ESRC Festival of Science Nov 13 Nov 13
Monika Krause Triaging Values ESRC Oct 13 Oct 16
Alison Rooke Leonardo Transfer of Innovation Oct 13 Sept 15
Sara Farris Intersectional Contract. Understanding the Intersection of Gender and “Race”/Ethnic Inequalities in the Care-Domestic Sector in the UK by Means of Racial-Sexual Contract Analysis Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship Oct 13 Nov 15
Rob Imrie Unidesign ERC Advanced Investigator Grant Sept 13 Aug 16
Rob Imrie Designing inclusive environments: shaping transitions from theory into practice ESRC Seminar Series Sept 13 Apr 14
Alison Rooke AHRC Creative Works Programme Sept 13 May 14
Evelyn Ruppert Aruthmus: Counting Britain in Europe British Academy Sept 13 Aug 15
Beverley Skeggs A Sociology of Values and Value ESRC Fellowship Sept 13 Aug  16
Monika Krause Triaging Human Rights: How Human Rights NGOs allocate resources British Academy Sept 13 Aug 16
Alison Rooke London & Quadrant Housing 2013  
Katrina Jungnickel Transmission: Knowledge Exchange ESRC / Intel Jul 13 May 14
Evelyn Ruppert Socialising Big Data ESRC Jun 13 May 14
Daniel Neyland Market Based Initiatives As Solutions To Techo-Scientific Problems ERC Mar 13 Sept 18
Katrina Jungnickel Transmission: Interdisciplinary research project involving the making, curating and representing of knowledge Intel Mar 13 Jun 14
Alison Rooke Urban Dialogues / EU Culture Scheme Jan 13 Dec 15
Jennifer Gabrys Citizen Sensing and Environmental Practice: Assessing Participatory Engagements with Enviroments through Sensor Technologies ERC Consolidator Grant Jan 13 Dec 17
Yasmin Gunaratnam Case Stories: Social Pain and Transnational Dying British Academy Jan 13 Dec13
Kirsten Campbell ERC Consolidator Grant Jan 13 Dec16
Roger Burrows, Caroline Knowles ESRC Jan 13 Jul 15
Rebecca Coleman Austerity Futures: Imagining and materialising the future in an age of austerity ESRC Seminar Series Oct 12 Sept 14
Annie Pfingst Emergency - a Genealogy of Emergency Regulations British Academy Oct 12 Mar15
Caroline Knowles What Calculations and Strategies Drive Young Migrants? ERSC Hong Kong Bilateral Oct 12 Sept 14
Michaela Benson ESRC Oct 12 Sept 15
Rebecca Coleman Austerity Futures: Imagining and materialising the future in an age of austerity ESRC Seminar Series Oct 12 Sept 14
Noortje Marres Performing environmental change: The politics of methods University of Oslo, CTIC Sept 12 Aug 13
Alison Rooke Open Minds Evaluation South London & Maudsley Health Trust 2012  
Caroline Knowles Leverhulme Trust Oct 12 Sept 14
Alison Rooke Future Stages Evaluation Oval House Theatre 2012  
Noortje Marres Issue Lifelines: Implementing the Co-Word Machine ESRC May 12  Mar 13
Katrina Jungnickel Biennial Conference, EASST 2012 Microsoft 2012  2012