Research projects
Current projects
Ageing, poverty and neoliberalism in urban South India
- Principal investigator: Dr Penny Vera-Sanso
- Part of the New Dynamics of Ageing programme and funded by 5 reseach councils - ESRC, EPSRC, BBSRC, MRC and AHRC - this project aims to extend the conceptualisation of what is an ‘ageing issue’ in local, national and international arenas and to provide tangible strategies for improving older people’s capacity to be self-supporting or to access support from their families and the state.
- Read more about the project in Society Now (pdf, 100k).
- Download NDA Findings (pdf, 100k)
Coastal changes in historic times (past 200 years) - linking offshore bathmetric change and cliff recession.
- Principal investigator: Dr Sue Brooks
- Funded by: National Maritime Museum
- Dates: 1 June 2009 to 31 May 2010
Violence and Childhood: International Perspectives
- Principal investigator: Dr Karen Wells
- Funded by: Economic & Social Research Council
- Dates: 4 January 2010 to 3 January 2012
- Read the project blog.
- Find out more about the Violence and Childhood seminar series.
Completed projects
Analysis and Commentury of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
- Principal investigator: Professor John Shepherd
- Funded by: Commission for Rural Communities
- Dates: 1 March 2007 to 2 April 2007
Beach morphological response to surface and subsurface flows: measurement and modelling
- Principal investigator: Dr Diane Horn
- Funded by: Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council
- Dates: 1 November 2009 to 28 February 2010
Chacterising Rural Affordable Housing Stock and English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
- Principal investigator: Professor John Shepherd
- Funded by: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
Mapping Social Economic Flows in the East of England
- Principal investigator: Professor John Shepherd
- Funded by: East of England Development Agency
- Dates: 6 June 2008 to 16 July 2008
River Systems and Climate Change - evidence from aggregate extraction
- A Natural England-funded Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund research project has recently been completed at the Department of Geography, Environment and Development Studies, Birkbeck, University of London. This project used computer modelling to recreate river activity in the river Welland catchment (Eastern England) over the last 135,000 years. The aim of this was to improve our understanding of the linkages between river activity and climate change, with the ultimate aim of addressing river catchment responses to future climate change.
- Full details of the project are online
- Contact us: Contact a member of the project team for more information: Becky Briant; Gareth Mottram (modeller / researcher, Department of Geography, Environment and Development Studies, Birkbeck, University of London): gareth.mottram@gmail.com; John Wainwright (modeller, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield) : j.wainwright@sheffield.ac.uk
