Projects

See a list of our current projects below.

The Centre for People’s Justice

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Co-led by Wendy Asquith

More information here: https://centreforpeoplesjustice.org/

 

A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos

Led by Gemma Bird with Co-Is Simone van den Akker and Andrew Foreman

More information here: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/events/a-place-along-the-way/

 

Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Co-led by Alex Balch and Wendy Asquith

More information here: https://www.modernslaverypec.org/ 

 

Anticolonial Education Working Group

Internally funded at the University of Liverpool.

Led by Amal Abu-Bakare

More information here: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-and-social-sciences/research/projects/anticolonial-policy-paper/

 

Ethics in Modern Slavery Research

Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (AHRC)

Led by Wendy Asquith with Bethany Jackson, Helen Stalford, Kimberley Hutchison, Adam Burns and Edmira Bracaj

More information here: https://www.modernslaverypec.org/resources/ethics-in-modern-slavery-research

Strategies for Abortion Law Reform Movements: Lessons from Northern Ireland 

Internally funded by a University of Liverpool impact grant.

Led by Dr Claire Pierson, written with Dr Fiona Bloomer of Ulster University. Research support from Liza Caruana-Finkel (University of Liverpool). 

Please find more information here: Abortion Law Reform Strategies

 

The Antislavery Knowledge Network: Community-Led Strategies for Creative and Heritage-Based Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa

ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL (AHRC)

October 2017 - September 2021

Led by Professor Alex Balch

Please find more information here: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/research/research-projects/akn/

 

North West Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership Research Network: Risk-work in Young Lives 

Led by Dr Leona Vaughn

Please find more information here: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/sociology-social-policy-and-criminology/research/research-projects/risk-work-in-young-lives-research-network/

 

Development of community-based approaches to support the sexual and reproductive health of survivors of trafficking in Sierra Leone and Uganda

Wellcome Trust/Nova Nordisk Foundation

Nov 2020 – Nov 2021

Led by Dr Claire Pierson (Co-Investigator) in conjunction with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Arts for Change, Uganda and the Rainbo Initiative, Sierra Leone

 

Failures of International Order: Experiences of Displacement and their Challenge to the Nation State. 

British International Studies Association

May 2020- September 2021

Led by Dr Gemma Bird

 

Decolonising the Politics Curriculum

Internally funded by the University of Liverpool Beacon Funding

Dr Gemma Bird, Dr Obert Hodzi, Dr Xavier Matthieu, Dr Claire Pierson, Dr Stuart Wilks-Heeg. Student support: Maya Lubczynskyj

This project was developed by staff and students to address ways in which to decolonise the Politics curriculum at the University of Liverpool, the project has produced an internal report and is currently setting up a staff-student reading group on decolonising higher education.