Related research
Find below a list of related research projects awarded to Centre collaborators.
- RepaireED: Reparative Futures of Education (Arathi Sriprakash). European Research Council, Jan 2024-Dec 2028, £1.99m. ERC Consolidator Research grant to support the interrogation of the possibility of reparation in systems of schooling, enabling the exploration of how the idea of reparation might help address the injustices of unequal schooling systems.
- Times of Just Transitions (Keri Facer). British Academy, Jan 2023-Dec 2025, £1.6m. This programme brings together scholars from six continents and 14 disciplines to transform our understanding of the role of time and timing in producing justice and injustice in sustainability transitions. More: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/the-times-of-a-just-transition/
- Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security (Genevieve Liveley). National Cyber Security Centre, Oct 2022-Sept 2027, £1.24m. RISCS is the UK’s first academic research institute to focus on understanding the overall cyber security of organisations, including their constituent technologies, people, and processes. More: March: RISCS launch | News and features | University of Bristol
- The rise of self-avatars in collaborative virtual environments and their consequences for users' mental well-being, ES/X010899/1 (Ana Javornik, with Dale Southerton as mentor). ESRC, New Investigator Scheme, July 2023-Dec 2025, £312k. This project focuses on self-avatars in increasingly popular collaborative virtual environments (VEs). People use selfavatars to represent themselves in VEs, often in unforeseen ways, thanks to the features of these virtual worlds, like avatar customisation. The overarching aim of this proposal is to investigate if and how such self-avatars affect users' perception of themselves and, consequently, their subjective mental well-being, more precisely people's sense of purpose and meaning in life. Specifically, it focuses on uncovering how inhabiting the self-avatars can offer new opportunities for achieving one's aspirations and thus improve well-being. Or, conversely, can virtual-only self-avatars make some users feel estranged from their offline self and consequently decrease their perception of how meaningful their lives are?
- Visiting Professorship funding (Bridget Anderson). Leverhulme Trust, July 2023-June 2024, £41k. Grant for Prof Victoria Hattam (New School, US) to visit CenSoF to catalyse and embed long term exchange and mutual learning between the Centre and the New School.
- Policy Impact Engagement award (Debbie Watson). Research England Policy Support Funds (devolved to the University of Bristol), Jan-July 2023, £18k. To support policy impact engagement work with partners, in particular DEFRA.
- Funding for Ukranian PhD Student (Chris Preist). University of Bristol, 2023, £9k. To undertake a review of Smart City Futures, with a particular focus on Ukraine and Eastern Europe.
- Benjamin Meaker Fellowship (Dale Southerton). University of Bristol, Benjamin Meaker Fellowship, Sept-Nov 2023, £2.3k. Funding for a visit to the Centre by Professor Ted Schatzki (Kentucky), who is undertaking a research programme on digital societies in collaboration with CenSoF colleagues.
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