Projects

Selected current and recent funded research projects and awards.

For more research projects, follow links from our People and Research Centre pages. Many of these projects are collaborations with researchers in other departments or other institutions, within the UK and beyond.

Project title (funder)	University of Manchester contact	Dates
Covid intimacies: Resilience and viral safety among LGBT and heterosexual people using dating apps in the Covid-19 era (ESRC)	Brian Heaphy	2022-2024
The Waste Tip: Exploring fly-tipping and opportunities for better waste management (UMRI)	Helen Holmes	2022-2023
The social, cultural and economic impacts of the pandemic on ethnic and racialised groups in the UK (ESRC)	Bridget Byrne	2021-2022
Mental capacity and personal finances: a qualitative study of assessment and support (NIHR)	Alex Hall and Debora Price	2021-2022
The impact of Care Act Easements under the Coronavirus Act 2020 on co-resident older carers of partners with dementia (NIHR)	Philip Drake and Debora Price	2021-2022
One Bin to Rule Them All (UKRI)	Helen Holmes (Co-I); Mike Shaver (PI, SCI)	2020-2024
Exploring Racial and Ethnic Inequality in a Time of Crisis, including the Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS) (ESRC)	Bridget Byrne	2020-2021
Care of Older Persons in Southern Africa Network (COPSAN) (Global Challenges Research Fund)	Debora Price (Principal Investigator: Elena Moore, University of Cape Town)	2020-2021
Urbanisation and Population Ageing: Interdisciplinary perspectives on "ageing in place" in cities (Leverhulme Trust)	Tine Buffel	2020-2025
Precarious employment and pension planning (ESRC)	Debora Price	2020-2023
Descendants of Holocaust survivors and the concentration camp tattoo: Generation, memory, memorialisation and resignification (British Academy)	Alice Bloch	2019-2022
Ethnic inequalities in later life (Nuffield Foundation)	Dharmi Kapadia (Project leader: Laia Becares, University of Sussex)	2019-2022
Migration, Care and Ageing (part of Centre of Excellence for Research on Ageing and Care) (Academy of Finland)	Vanessa May	2018-2022
Beyond Banglatown: community, change and new urban economies in Brick Lane (AHRC)	Claire Alexander	2018-2021
Curious Connections: Being an egg or sperm donor (ESRC)	Petra Nordqvist	2017-2021
Girlhood and later life (ESRC)	Penny Tinkler	2017-2021
Dialogue about Radicalisation and Equality (DARE) (EU, Horizon 2020)	Hilary Pilkington	2017-2021
Pensions on divorce (Nuffield Foundation)	Debora Price	2017-2020
Synergi Collaborative Centre - ethnic inequalities and severe mental illness (Lankelly Chase)	James Nazroo	2017-2022
Urban Ageing and Social Exclusion	Tine Buffel	2016-2021
Gender, work and care	Colette Fagan	ongoing

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