Economic valuation of climate adaptation and resilience-building Investigating the costs and full benefits of climate adaptation interventions and quantifying the triple dividend of resilience (TDR).
Reframing Justice after Atrocity Through historical and modern case studies in Latin America, Europe and Africa and the new conceptual framework of “arenas of accountability”, this project examines justice interactions that go beyond the linear international-to-national transmission of norms and practices.
Civic Infrastructures of Torture The project is based on exclusive access this research team has been granted to the archive of PCATI, which documents torture practices implemented by Israeli security agencies.
Migration Governance and Diplomacy This project investigates how migration governance has been influenced by “refugee crises” and how crises at large shape policy responses on migration.
Pan-African Frontiers and Identities This multi-sited collaborative research project explores the diverse deployments of pan-Africanism as a geopolitical and policy framework both on the African continent and in the diaspora.
African State Architecture Professor Julia Gallagher and a team of researchers lead the African State Architecture project funded by a major grant from the European Research Council.
Transnational Practices: Film Culture and Politics in China (1949–1989) Examining transnational film practices in China against the backdrop of the shifting global order from 1949 to 1989.
Chemical Capital: The life and times of a North Korean industrial town from colonial fiefdom to socialist icon A biography a town and the diverse people that made it, from Korean workers to Russian engineers and Japanese scientists.
Financial risk and the impact of climate change Developing a robust characterisation, quantification and communication of climate-related transition risks.