Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research

Funded Research

Funded Research Projects
Networks

Recent Research Projects
  • Peter Taylor-Gooby, ‘Social Cohesion at the Cross-Roads’ Leverhulme Trust Major Fellowship, 2011-14, £40,826.
  • Peter Taylor- Gooby, ‘Nudge and Public Policy’, Chair, British Academy Public Policy Research Programme, 2011-12.
  • Peter Taylor-Gooby, ‘New Paradigms in Public Policy’, Chair of British Academy Public Policy Research programme, 2009-12, £40,000.
  • Peter Taylor-Gooby, Welfare Reform and the Management of Societal Change, an EU FPV project, 2001-5, 1.1m euros. www.kent.ac.uk/wramsoc/
  • Peter Taylor-Gooby, Economic Beliefs and Behaviour, an ESRC Research Programme, 1994-9, £1.5m. www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/L122341001/read
  • Jenny Billings, £25,412 from the Ellenor lions Hospices for the project “Evaluation of an Advanced Care Plan Tool”.
  • Dawn Lyon, £5,445 from the British Academy for the project “The socio-economic process of getting fish from sea to table”.
  • Julia Twigg, £195,452 from the ESRC for the project “Dementia and dress: Embodiment, identity and personhood”.
  • Balihar Sanghera, £7,500 from the British Academy for the project “Subsistence Claims, Property Rights and Poor Groups: Everyday Politics and Justice in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan”.
  • Simon Coulton, £9,689 from the NIHR for the project “A pragmatic randomised control trial to evaluate the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of collaborative care for people with dementia in primary care”.
  • Phil Hubbard, £87,903 from the ESRC for the project “Sexualisation, nuisance and safety: Sexual entertainment venues and the management of risk”.
  • Ben Baumberg, €112,500 from EC FP7 for the project “Addictions and lifestyles in contemporary Europe: reframing addictions project ’ALICE RAP’”.
  • Roger Matthews, £27,136 from Commonweal Housing for the project “The evaluation of the Chrysalis project”.
  • Laura Holdsworth and Jenny Billings, £107,503 from Pilgrims Hospice East Kent for the project “Invicta project evaluation”.
  • Ben Baumberg, £35,696 from Elizabeth Finn care for the Project “The impact of social influence and relating pressures on applying for benefits”.
  • Clare Birchall, £78,000 (with Goldsmiths and Coventry) from JISC for "Living Books About Life".
  • Charlotte Faircloth (with Professor Diane Hoffman), ‘What’s new about parenting? Comparative studies in kinship, self and politics’ (Workshop funding for edited volume, Wenner Gren Trust $15,000).
  • Problematic Substance Misuse and the Young Homeless, (Home Office, Emma Wincup and Rhiannon Bayliss.
  • Jennifer Beecham and Lesley Curtis (PSSRU) £640,788 over 5 years from the department of Health for the project Unit Costs of Health and Social Care
  • Julie Beadle-Brown (Tizard) £222,776 from the AHRC for the project Imagining Autism: Drama, Performance and Intermediality as Intervention for Autistic Spectrum Conditions
  • Julia Twigg £195,452 from the ESRC for the project Dementia and Dress: Embodiment, Identity and Personhood
  • Jennifer Fleetwood £2798 from the British Academy for the project Women in the Street Level Cocaine Trade in London
  • Miri Song, ‘Mixed race parents’ classification of their children’ (£113,749), September 2012 to March 2015.
  •  ‘Caught in the Act of Protest: Contextualising Contestation’, ESRC / ESF, 2009-13,  £78,684, Chris Rootes.
  • ESRC award: Clothing, age and the body, £83,000, 2007.
  • ‘Role of social movements in appeals to European Court of Human Rights and their impact on national jurisdictions’ (JURISTRAS), European Commission DG Research, 2006-9, €80,872, Chris Rootes.
  • The Ethnic Origin of Mixed Race People in Britain (ESRC) 2006 - 2008, £64,244, Miri Song and Peter Aspinall
  • Public Expenditure and Regulatory Reforms in Britain and Germany (Anglo-German Foundation) 2005 - 2006, £3,920, Nico Siegel
  • Third Evaluation of the Kent Warden's Scheme (Kent County Council) 2005 - 2006, £22,048, Chris Hale
  • Evaluation of the Therapeutic Foster Care Scheme 2004-05 (Kent County Council) 2005 - 2008, £14,180, Derek Kirton, Cliff Thomas
  • The German Model Revisited: Analyses, Reviews and Perspectives (Fritz-Thyssen Foundation) 2005 - 2005, €6,869, Nico Siegel
  • The Impact of Terrorism on the Public (NATO) 2005 - 2005, €35,000, Frank Furedi
  • The Take-up of Council Tax Benefit by Black and Ethnic Minorities in Kent and Medway ( Kent Benefits Partnership) 2005 - 2005, £3,154, Lavinia Mitton
  • The German Model Revisited: Analyses, Reviews and Perspectives (Fritz-Thyssen Foundation) 2005 - 2005, €6,869, Nico Siegel
  • ‘Democracy in Europe and the Mobilization of Society’ (DEMOS), European Commission DG Research, 2004–8, €163,348 Chris Rootes.
  • Project Enhance Evaluation (Kent Police) 2004 - 2005, £40,000, Chris Hale
  • Mother's Experience of, and Attitudes to, the use of Infant Formula Feeding in Early Motherhood (Infant Dietetics and Food Association) 2004 - 2005, £29,132, Ellie Lee and Frank Furedi
  • Older Workers and Options for Flexible Work (Equal Opportunities Commission) 2004 - 2005, £3,150, Sarah Vickerstaff
  • The Employability of Older Workers (ESRC) 2004 - 2005, £8,980, Sarah Vickerstaff
  • Women, Imprisonment and Education, (Women in Prison) 2004 - 2004, £3,126, Azrini Wahadin, Emma Wincup
  • Accommodation for Female Offenders, (National Probation Service) 2004 - 2004, £18,162, Emma Wincup
  • Sevenoaks District Community Safety Audit, (Sevenoaks District Council) 2004 - 2004, £19,975, Chris Hale
  • Referral Order Reconviction Study, (Youth Justice Board) 2004 - 2004, £35,250, Chris Hale
  • Understanding and Evaluating Contemporary Probation Practice, (ESRC) 2003 - 2005, £14,899, Emma Wincup
  • Review of the Current Knowledge on the (Statistical) Development, Core Risk and Protective Factors and Measures to reduce Juvenile Violence in the EU Member States (European Commission) 2003 - 2004, €38,655, Chris Hale
  • ESRC Research Seminar Series 2003 - 2005: Understanding and Evaluating Contemporary Probation Practice.
  • ‘Understanding Special Interest Groups’, Environment Agency, 2002-4, £10,600, Chris Rootes.
  • European Commission 5th Framework: Providing Integrated Health and Social Care (PROCARE) Julia Twigg with J.Baldock and A.Alaszewski, £61,000, 2002.
  • The Domestic Management of Terrorist Attacks, (ESRC) 2002 - 2004, £18,561, Frank Furedi
  • Welfare Reform and the Management of Societal Change, (European Commission) 2001 - 2004, €295,673, Peter Taylor-Gooby
  • The Organisational Context of Retirement (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2001-03, £59,740, John Baldock, Linda Keen and Sarah Vickerstaff)
  • Public Policy: Knowledge, Understanding and Attitudes (ESRC, 2001-03 £74,454: Peter Taylor-Gooby)
  • Active Citizenship (Nordic Research Council, 2001-2: UK consultant, Euros 2,000: Peter Taylor-Gooby)
  • Remuneration and Performance in Foster Care, Department of Health, 2000-2003, £216,435: Derek Kirton and Jennifer Beecham.
  • New Kinds of Families, New Kinds of Social Care (EU FPV, 2000-03, £100,820, John Baldock).
  • Research Seminar Series on Racist Violence (ESRC, 2000-02, £20,000, Larry Ray.
  • Racial Violence in Greater Manchester (ESRC, 1998-00, Larry Ray and David Smith.
  • The Transformation of Environmental Activism (EU, 1998-01, Chris Rootes.
  • The Transformation of Environmental Activism, from European Commission DGXII, 1998-01, €815,000, Chris Rootes.
  • Policy-Making and Environmental Movements (EU, 1996-99, Chris Rootes more info.
  • Bathing, the body and community care: the provision of bathing at home for older and disabled people (ESRC, 1997-1999, £ 74,000: Julia Twigg).
  • Public or Private? Dental Practitioners' Beliefs, Values and Practice'(NHS Executive South Thames, 1996-98, £ 78,292: Professors Calnan and Taylor-Gooby and Dr Manley).
  • New forms of money and financial arrangements within families(Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1996-98, £ 62,000: Jan Pahl).
  • Environmental policy implementation by local government in Hungary(ESRC 1995-1999, £ 174,000: C G Pickvance and K Pickvance).
  • Policy-Making and Environmental Movements, European Commission DGXII, 1996-99, €120,400,  Chris Rootes.
  • Public participation in purchasing (South Thames Regional Health Authority 1995-1997, £ 108,000: M Calnan and T Milewa).
  • Economic beliefs and behaviour (ESRC, 1994-1998, £ 245,000: Peter Taylor-Gooby more info.
  • Squaring the welfare circle; the political limits to social policy growth in Europe (ESRC, 1993-95, £ 111,000: Peter Taylor-Gooby and Vic George).
  • Environmental and housing movements in Hungary, Estonia and Russia (ESRC, 1991-94, £ 147,336: CG Pickvance, N Manning and K Pickvance).
  • Labour relations in transition, restructuring and privatisation in Eastern Europe (ESRC, 1991-1995, £ 65,000: Sarah Vickerstaff, J Thirkell and R Scase).
  • Choice and constraint in the welfare mix (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1991-93, £ 51,000: John Baldock and Clare Ungerson).
  • Child health surveillance in the new NHS (Department of Health 1990-1994, £ 187,000: John Butler).
  • Social Change and Social Welfare(Social Science Research Fellowship, Nuffield Foundation, 1990, £ 20,000: Peter Taylor-Gooby).
  • Young people's housing problems and the role of family support (Nuffield Foundation, 1989-90, £ 3,000: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1990-92, £ 103,048: CG Pickvance and K Pickvance).
  • Dependency Culture: the Image and Reality of the Claiming Experience(ESRC, 1989-91, £ 44,503: Peter Taylor-Gooby.

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