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Global China In Urban Europe: Understanding The Role Of Chinese Actors, Media, Cultures, And Capital In European Urban Development (2025-2030) is a European Research Council-funded research project led by Dr Carwyn Morris exploring the impact of Chinese capital on European urban development.

Scholars within the School of Arts helped deliver a bespoke programme, Curatorial Studio: from theory to practice in museum studies, to build capacity by equipping the next generation with a range of critical, theoretical, and practical approaches to curating in museums and galleries. 

This project explores the “industrialization of freshness” and how high-value agriculture can drive structural transformation. It has informed policy, publications, and initiatives like the DLD Future Leaders Programme.

What happens when a building becomes a border? "The Architecture of Asylum Infrastructure" uncovers the hidden life of structures transformed into reception centres, exposing the tensions between the worlds they are designed to enforce and the worlds people create within them. Through these spaces, the project reads the social, political, and emotional geography of our time.

The project, funded by the ILO’s Work in Freedom Programme via READ, examined industrial grievances filed by garment workers in three major clusters—Gurugram, Bengaluru, and Tiruppur.

RELI-GENE examines how genetic testing and reproductive technologies shape family formations, kinships and belongings within close-knit religious minorities.

The project regards anthropology and cinema as distinct yet related forms of culture critique; by revisiting the films of Théo Angelopoulos, it poses the question of how the real is fashioned in such films, charting the effects its cinematic reconstruction has been having on audiences.