Dr Avril Maddrell (SAGES) is running an AHRC-ESRC project on Deathscapes and Diversity. Against the backdrop of increasing ethnic and religious diversity in the UK, many challenges have been raised…Read More >
News from Prosperity & Resilience: Dr Zahra Siddique
Dr Zahra Siddique (SPEIR) received the runner-up prize in the P&R Output Prize for her co-authored article ‘The Economic Payoff of Name Americanization’. The article explores why more than 30%…Read More >
News from Prosperity & Resilience: Participation Lab
The Participation Lab, led by SAGES researchers, continues to support participatory research within and outside of the University. Its 2nd Annual Workshop on ‘Participation for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’…Read More >
News from Prosperity & Resilience: Alex Arnall
Dr Alex Arnall has recently been awarded funding by the ESRC-DFID Development Frontiers scheme for an 18 month research project entitled ‘Negotiating conflict: Environmental violence, economic development and the everyday…Read More >
News from Prosperity & Resilience: Peter Dorward
In May 2017 the Guyana government together with the Caribbean Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology facilitated a workshop one developing Participatory Integrated Climate Services of Agriculture (PICSA). The training enabled…Read More >
News from Prosperity and Resilience: Walker Institute and Marie Aronsson-Storier
The School of Law and the Walker Institute, together with the American Society of International Law, held the Disaster Risk Reduction and International Law Symposium at UoR between 29 June…Read More >
News from Prosperity and Resilience: Dr Hilary Geoghegan
New initiative set to transform public’s engagement with environmental research Dr Hilary Geoghegan was recently awarded £100,000, from the NERC Engaging Environments programme, to develop a national vision for public…Read More >
News from Prosperity and Resilience: Sam Rawlings
Dr Sam Rawlings (SPEIR) has been investigating the impact of parental education on child health, exploiting a compulsory schooling law reform implemented in China in 1986 to identify effects. The…Read More >
News from Prosperity and Resilience: Dr Eleanor Fisher
Dr Eleanor Fisher (SAPD) published ‘The livelihood impacts of cash transfers in sub-Saharan Africa: beneficiary perspectives from six countries’ (2017) World Development 99, pp. 299-319 (with Attah, R., Barca, V.,…Read More >