Past Projects

Research projects funded by national funding bodies:

  • Representations of people and places between Britain and Bulgaria, a project funded by the British Academy (2006-2007). The participants included Prof Chris Flood, Prof John Eade, Prof Suman Gupta (Open University) and colleagues at the University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Research workshops were held at Plovdiv and the Bulgarian Embassy in London. The main outcome of the project was the volume 'Accession and Migration' (Ashgate) edited by Prof John Eade and Dr Yordanka Valkanova.

Research projects funded from other sources:

  • A health inequality survey for Brent PCT (2006-2007) with Prof J. Eade and R. Banarsi (Imperial College, London).
  • Improving accessibility for people from Black and Minority Ethnic Communities and Refugees and Asylum Seekers onto Aimhigher programmes across the South East Region (2005). Report
  • The Bangladeshi Diaspora - Community Dynamics, Transnational Politics and Islamist Activities, a report for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (2005).
  • A study of Gujarati early childrearing beliefs and practices in Brent in collaboration with Dr Begum Maitra, Dr Mitch Blair and Prof John Eade (2004). The study was funded by Brent PCT and the Joint Innovation Fund (Roehampton/Surrey).

Research Fellowships

  • Dr Bindi Shah was awarded a three-year ESRC Research Fellowship to implement a programme of work that included a research project on the role of religion and religious institutions in shaping identity, belonging and citizenship among young Jains in the UK and USA. She was mentored by Prof John Eade. (2008 - 2010)
  • Dr. Patrycja Matusz joined CRONEM (Oct - Dec 2007) on a Chevening Fellowship funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and administered by the British Council. She is a Lecturer at the University of Wroclaw in south-west Poland and an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Migration Research at the University of Warsaw.
  • An ESRC-funded Post Doctoral Fellowship where Dr Georgie Wemyss was working with Prof John Eade as her mentor (2005-2007). Her book ‘The Invisible Empire: White Discourse, Tolerance and Belonging' (Ashgate) was one of the outcomes of her Fellowship with CRONEM.