Research projects

Global reach

The combination of disciplinary strength and interdisciplinary effectiveness across the School allows colleagues to develop collaborative teaching and research projects, to generate research income and to further develop effective knowledge transfer activities.

Locating Legitimacy: Peacebuilding and the Politics of Space (2009 - 12)

Description
This research seeks to contribute to this emergent literature by sharing the insights of civil society organisations regarding effective ways to engage the UNPBC to ensure that all activities and policies are formulated and implemented with an awareness of how gender matters in peacebuilding and reconstruction.

The Quest for Peace: A Biography of Abba Eban (2009 - 12)

Description
The objective of this project is to complete a single-authored research monograph about the life of Abba Eban and his pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace. This project aims to provide a multi-level analysis of Middle East peacemaking through a substantive biography of Eban, Israel's foremost statesman.

African Actvism in the World Trade Organisation (2007 - 12)

Description
The research seeks to identify and critically analyse the bargaining strategies of African states in the negotiating processes during the current Doha Round.

A future for aid data: a south-south cooperation data categorization to complement on-going IATI categorizations (2011)

Description
The project investigates the incentives and disincentives for non traditional donors to adhere to International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) categorisation and code of conduct and in the wake of such non binding IATI or OECD-DAC standards, what challenges and opportunities such donors bring to the IATI.

Negotiating worker identity under post-socialism: an ethnographic approach (2010 - 11)

Description
The project will theorise, and provide a basis for comparative evaluation of, the impact of neoliberalism on the working class outside the normal.

Integrated Public Service Budgets (2010 - 11)

Description
This research, examines and establishes the costs and benefits of aligning or pooling budgets across activities, services, and organisations.
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