Members of the Centre have been involved in a wide array of multidisciplinary research projects in the UK and around the globe. These include:

• COVID-19 in Gaza: Community Perspectives on the Pandemic (funded by Elrha, National Institute for Health Research, & UK Aid)
• Building inclusive civil societies with, and for, young people in five post-conflict countries (funded by AHRC-GCRF)
• Social protection and sustainable peace in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Building a new welfare-centered politics (funded by AHRC-GCRF)
• Tackling the causes for flight? The changing features and effects of German refugee policy in Jordan (funded by Council for British Research in the Levant)
• Healthy Housing for the Displaced (funded by EPSRC-GCRF)
• Living on the margins: Using literary comics to understand the role of borderland brokers in post-war transitions (funded by AHRC)
• Borderlands, brokers and peacebuilding in Sri Lanka and Nepal: War to peace transitions viewed from the margins (funded by ESRC)
• States of emergency: Citizenship in times of crisis in Sierra Leone (funded by ESRC)
• Challenging Neglect from a Systemic Perspective: Child Protection in Gaza & Jordan (funded by AHRC & UKFCDO)
• Transnational social welfare in the European Union (TRANSWEL): an eight-country comparative study (funded by NORFACE/ESRC)
• Reconceptualising conflict and peacebuilding: new ideas and actors in a changing world (funded by GW4)
• Education, Justice, and Memory Network (funded by AHRC-GCRF)
• Automating migration governance: causes and consequences from political economy to bureaucratic practices (unfunded)
• Terror, Authoritarian Violence and Cosmopolitan Protection (unfunded)
• Social policy and social mobilisation in the MENA region (Carnegie Corporation of New York)
• Social protection and conflict prevention in the MENA region (GCRF-AHRC Network Plus)
• Disputed Territories and Memory (funded by EU H2020 MSCA)

Doctoral Research

Complete

• Frances Mary Johnson (2020 completed): ‘Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children: Childhood, Agency and Integration’
• Alfred Carr (2021 completed): ‘A qualitative study of factors that affect mental health help-seeking among Ghanaian immigrants in Calgary’
• Kinga Papiez (2021 completed): ‘Making sense of transnational belonging and social citizenship - the experiences of Polish migrants in the south-west England’
• Rebecca Yeo (2021 completed): ‘Who is worthy of ‘our’ support? An exploration of the causes, impact and possible alternatives to the relative entitlements associated with disability and forced migration’

Ongoing

• Anna Kvittingen (2021 completion due): ‘Gaps and Expectations: The Politics of Protecting Refugees in the Middle East’
• Isabelle Schafer (2021 completion due): ‘Integration of forced migrants in the United Kingdom: the role of Higher Education Institutions’
• Elise Reslinger (2021 completion due): ‘In the shadow of the French asylum system: home-making practices of asylum-seeking children in Bretagne’
• Qionglei Xu (2022 completion due): 'Exploring migrant children's emotional ties with peers and teachers in adapting to new urban lives: A case study in China'
• Polly Winfield (2022 completion due): “Performing (Hi)Stories in Constitution Hill and Hillbrow”
• Cat Gray (2024 completion due): ‘The adoption and use of artificial intelligence technologies (AITs) by humanitarian organisations: an institutional ethnography’