Funding awards

Our unique collaboration of experts in Law, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology explore the impact of law in society, challenge injustice, and promote equality of opportunity.

We are able to develop our research thanks to the collection of grants and fellowships awarded to our outstanding researchers in the School of Law and Social Justice. 

 

 

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£126.6k secured from The British Academy to explore the cultural politics of intoxication and sentencing.

Dr Carly Lightowlers, Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology.
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£123k secured from The British Academy to explore minority religious, spiritual, and sacred spaces.

Dr Terence Heng, Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology.
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£40.9k secured from the Leverhulme Trust (UK) to explore law and loss in relation to animal companions.

Professor Marie Fox, Liverpool Law School.

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£1.1 million secured from the ESRC to understand the varied experiences of frailty in older age with respect to ethnicity.

Professor Susan Pickard, Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology.
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£813.6k secured from the NIHR to work on trade challenges at the World Trade Organization to promote better health for all.

Professor Amandine Garde, Liverpool Law School.

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£320k secured from the Medical Research Council to explore minority ethnic women’s experiences of menopause.

Professor Susan Pickard and Dr Elham Amini, Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology.

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£34.2k secured from N8 Policing Research Partnership to investigate digital coercive control and police response.

Dr Antoinette Huber and Professor Barry Godfrey, Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology.

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£23.2k secured from Kings College London to enhance stakeholder understanding of the UK Internal Market Act 2020.

Dr Thomas Horsley, Liverpool Law School.

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£100k secured from the Leverhulme Trust (UK) to understand people smuggling and organ trafficking along the Central Mediterranean Route.

Dr Seán Columb, Liverpool Law School.

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£299.99k secured from the British Academy to explore ethical digital public histories of prisoners and the legacy of enslavement.

Dr Katy Roscoe and Professor Barry Godfrey, Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology.

Leon Moosavi

£25.4k secured from the British Academy for decolonial writing workshops.

Dr Leon Moosavi, Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology.
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£480k secured from the ESRC to explore Indigenous contemporary art practice as a method to understand ecological challenges.

Dr Nicole Vitellone, Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology.

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£30.8k secured from Research England (UK) to advance research on police responses to domestic abuse cases.

Dr Antoinette Huber and Professor Barry Godfrey, Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology.

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£15.3k secured from Research England (UK) to develop the first European Network on National Human Rights Action Planning.

Dr Azadeh Chalabi, Liverpool Law School.