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Future IAS projects
Each year we commit to supporting and developing exciting ideas with potential
With help and investment at all stages of a 3-year project cycle, we support PIs to deliver their goals and objectives
Year 1 - Pre-project year (developing preliminary ideas and planning for the project start)
Year 2 - Project year (joined by visiting Fellows for an intensive term of research collaboration)
Year 3 - Post project year (building on outcomes of Y1 and Y2
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Interest in Cattle: value, risk and security in eastern and southern Africa
Examining how cattle are linked to changing understandings of future security, value and risk
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Surfacing Knowledge from Doctoral Research: mining the hidden potential of international doctoral theses
Exploring the knowledge and impact of the research produced by PhD studies in UK universities.
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Confronting Climate Apartheid: law, economy, culture
Seeking to understand how climate apartheid is, has been, and could be used by focusing on the contexts in which it appears.
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Arts Engagement and Mental Health at Work
Exploring how arts engagement can help to combat loneliness at work, and increasing working adults’ mental health and well-being.
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Mercy and Justice
Tackling the pressing problem of mercy’s potential for harm.
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Community as an Enabler of Scientific Progress and Innovation
Investigating the role of communities as drivers of scientific progress
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Circulatory Materials
Challenging/critically recasting a growing body of work on the ‘circular economy’ premised on extending 'life-cycles' of products and maintaining material circulation
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Reconceptualising Resistance
Exploring disciplinary and methodological orientations; divergence between empirical, theoretical, and normative framings of resistance and the role of the academy
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