Recent research grants
Peter Halfpenny and Farida Vis (Open University), in collaboration with the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM), Using Text Mining for Frame Analysis of Media Content, JISC, 1 February 2008 – 31 July 2009.
Marco Paganoni, Ludek Matyska, Alex Voss, Rob Procter, Yannick Legre, Rafael Saldana, Andrew Howard, Simon Lin, Peter Antonio Banzon, Royol Chitradon, Hing Yan Lee, Tran Van Lang, Basuki Suhardiman, Piyawut Srichaikul, Suhaimi Napis, Abdul Rahman Ahmad Dahlan, EUAsiaGrid – Towards a common e-Science Infrastructure for the European and Asian Grids, EC Framework 3 Support Action, 1 April 2008 – 31 March 2010.
Rob Procter and Robin Williams (University of Edinburgh), Use and Relevance of Web 2.0 Resources for Researchers, Research Information Network, £90k, 1 December 2008 – 31 September 2009.
Tobias Schiebeck, Martin Turner, Rob Procter, Meik Poschen, One VRE for All, JISC, £155k, 1 April 2009 – 31 March 2011.
Mark Birkin, Rob Procter, Carole Goble, Iain Buchan, Paul Lambert, Mike Batty, Dave De Roure, Rob Allan, Andy Hudson-Smith and Neil Chue Hong, National e-Infrastructure for Social Simulation, JISC, £1.35m, 1 April 2009 – 31 March 2012.
Realities , part of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods, ESRC, £958,858, October 2008 to March 2011, Jennifer Mason, Brian Heaphy, Vanessa May, Carol Smart and James Nazroo. RES-576-25-0022.
'"Just Like Marriage?" Young Couples' Civil Partnerships', ESRC £325,270, November 2008 to April 2011, Brian Heaphy, Carol Smart. RES-062-23-1308.
The National Centre of e-Social Science Hub, ESRC, £1.5m, 2004-2007, Peter Halfpenny (Sociology), Terry Hewitt (Deputy Director of Manchester Computing), Keith Cole (MIMAS), Alvaro Fernandes (Computer Science), Simon Peters (Economics), Bob Barr (Geography), Mark Elliot (Centre for Census and Survey Research) and Stephen Pickles (Manchester Computing).
‘Consumer Trust in Food: a European study of the social and institutional conditions for the production of trust’, 2002-4, Alan Warde with M Harvey, EC Framework V, 1.7 million euros, coordinated from SIFO, Norway.
Pavis Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Open University (R000239801) ‘The Pub and the People Re-visited: a pilot study’, 2002, Alan Warde with D Watson & S Scott, £8,800.
'Sustainable domestic technologies: changing practice, technology and convention', ESRC Programme on Sustainable Technologies, RES-332-25-0007, £117,204, 2003-5, Alan Warde with D Southerton & E Shove.
‘Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: a critical investigation’, ESRC responsive mode, R000239801, £428,000, 2003-6, Alan Warde with T Bennett & E Silva (Open University) & M Savage.
'Social capital and consumption: promoting network analysis', ESRC Programme on Research Methods, H 333 25 0061, £88,000, 2003-5, Alan Warde with M Savage, J Scott (University of Essex) & G Tampubolon.
‘The diffusion of consumer culture: a comparative analysis’, ESRC Programme on Cultures of Consumption, RES-143-30-000318, £128,445, 2003-5, Alan Warde with D Southerton & W.Olsen.
'RECWOWE – reconciling work and welfare in Europe’ EC Framework 6 Network of Excellence (2006-11) EWERC is one of 26 partner institutions in this 60-month project commencing in 2006 coordinated by Denis Bouget (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme – Nantes, France)with a global budget of 4 million euro, Colette Fagan with EWERC colleagues (Damian Grimshaw, Jill Rubery, Mark Smith and Claire Annesley)
‘European Establishment Survey on Working Time – thematic analysis of part-time work and family leave’ European Foundation for Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (2006), Colette Fagan and Mark Smith (EWERC - MBS) in a consortium tender coordinated by Harald Bielenski, (TNS Infratest Sozialforschung), 11,400 euro to Manchester team.
'Network of experts on gender equality in employment and social inclusion’ European Commission competitive tender (2004-07) 1,500,000 euros [circa £995,000], Colette Fagan with Jill Rubery (EWERC - MBS) and Janneke Plantenga (Utrecht - NL)
'A New Organistion of Time through Working Life' European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (2003-4) global budget 105,000 euro - 15,000 euro to Manchester, Colette Fagan in a consortium tender coordinated by Dominque Anxo (Sweden) and Jean-Yves Boulin (France)
'Living and labouring in London and Manchester: Young adults' work-life choices' ESRC award R000239470 (2002-4) £107,219 Colette Fagan with Linda McDowell (Principal applicant, UCL/Oxford), Diane Perrons (LSE) and Kevin Ward (SED)
‘Jobs for whom? Service sector employment restructuring in Germany and the UK’ Anglo German Foundation award (2001-4) £59,000, Colette Fagan with J. O’Reilly (WZB - Germany)
'Gender and working conditions in Europe' European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (2001-2), £15,000, Colette Fagan with Brendan Burchell (Cambridge)
‘Gender and employment preferences in Europe’ European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (2000-1), £31,500, Colette Fagan
Peter Halfpenny, Rob Procter, Terry Hewitt (MC) and Keith Cole (MIMAS), National Centre for e-Social Science Hub continuation funding, ESRC, RES-149-28-0001, £1.025m (= 80% fEC), 2007-09.
Peter Halfpenny and Rob Procter, e-Infrastructure for the Social Sciences, ESRC, RES-149-25-1063, £544k (= 100% fEC), 2007-2010.
Peter Halfpenny, Support for International Activities, ESRC International Office, £90k (= 100% fEC), 2007-2010.
Rob Procter, Peter Halfpenny, Alex Voss, Barriers to Uptake of e-Infrastructure Services, JISC Capital Programme on e-Infrastructure, £500k (= 70% fEC), in collaboration with David Fergusson and Malcolm Atkinson (National e-Science Centre at the University of Edinburgh), Sheila Anderson and Lorna Hughes (the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre at King’s College, London), 2007-2009.
Peter Halfpenny, Rob Procter and Alex Voss, e-Infrastructure Use Cases and Service Usage Models, JISC Capital Programme on e-Infrastructure, £337k (= 70% fEC), in collaboration with Michael Fraser, Marina Jirotka and Matthew Mascord (University of Oxford), 2007-2009.
Yuwei Lin, Social and Ethical Issues in Developing and Implementing e-Research and e-Health Technologies, British Academy and National Science Council Taiwan, £4k (with a matching amount from the National Science Council Taiwan), 2007-08.
Alex Voss, A Comparative Study on Uptake of Grid Technologies in e-Social Science in the UK and Taiwan, British Academy, £4k (with a matching amount from the National Science Council Taiwan), 2007-08, in collaboration with Simon C Lin (Academia Sinica Grid Centre, Taiwan).
Rob Procter, Distributed Intelligent Learning Environment for Mammographic Screening, EPSRC, £307k (= 80% fEC), in collaboration with Mark Hartswood (Edinburgh University) and with Paul Taylor (UCL), June 2007-May 2010.
Mike Daw and Rob Procter, Collaborative Research Events Pilot for National & Institutional VREs, JISC, £521k (= 75% fEC), in collaboration with Universities of Bristol and Wales Bangor, March 2007-March 2009.
Rob Procter, A study on requirements and options for accelerating the transition from traditional research to virtual research organisations through e-infrastructures (AVROSS), EU FP6, €200K, in collaboration with Franz Barjak (University of Applied Sciences Solothurn Northwest Switzerland), Simon Robinson (empirica GmbH) and Julia Lane (National Organisation for Research at the University of Chicago, USA), September 2006-August 2007.
Alan Rector, Carole Goble, Robert Stevens, Rob Procter, NeuroGrid-PsyGrid collaboration project, MRC e-Science, £300k (= 80% fEC), in collaboration with Stephen Lawrie and Malcolm Atkinson (Edinburgh University), John Suckling (University of Cambridge).
Nick Crossley, Small Research Grant (23K) from the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods, for a seminar series on social networks.