The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and The British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium awardees are:
Bennett Collins, University of Aberdeen
Youness Achmani, Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale
'A Tale of Two Port Cities: Decolonizing Energy and Housing Governance in Aberdeen and Dunkerque'
The project examines issues of spatial injustice in the port cities of Aberdeen, Scotland and Dunkerque, France, addressing unequal access and distribution of resources in energy and housing governance. The proposed project is a two-part workshop series that will take place at the universities in these respective cities, with one hosted at the University of Aberdeen and the other at the Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale.
Mihika Chatterjee, University of Bath
Charles Bosvieux-Onyekwelu, CNRS, Centre Norbert Elias
''They are the 1%': Inequalities, Dispossession and Popular Claims in Films'
This project proposes interrogating the puzzle that social problems such as the fight against inequality, patriarchy, racism and environmental devastation are now becoming pressing issues as well as vastly shared aspirations. To this end it uses imagery and narratives in mainstream media to capture what is otherwise silenced, and unnoticed.
Elizabeth Marcus, Newcastle University
Christof Brandtner, Emlyon Business School
'The Rise and Fall of University Towns'
The project explores the rise and fall of university towns in the age of the contraction of the global university with a workshop bringing together scholars of education, and those specialized in cities. To explore an empirical examination of downsizing in the current era, the project will highlight historical examples to reexamine what happens when universities move, close, or respond to similar crises.
Fred Paxton, University of Glasgow
Christof Brandtner, Emlyon Business School
'Who Innovates, Wins? The Electoral Impact of Innovative Urban Policy/Governance'
This project examines the electoral consequences of innovative urban governance and policy implementation underscoring the understudied interplay between urban policy innovation and urban politics. It asks: do voters reward or punish incumbent leaders who champion innovative policies? And do the cities who innovate initially profit more than the cities who followed later?
Maria Gloria Polimeno, SOAS Middle East Institute
Beatrice Zani, CNRS, Laboratoire interdisciplinaire pour la sociologie économiqe (LISE)
'Shapes of Transformative Governance: The Middle East and Asia Pacific in Comparative Perspectives'
The project investigates practices of governance in the Asia Pacific, the Greater Middle East and North Africa, with evidence from Egypt, Lebanon, Indonesia and Taiwan. Its theoretical and empirical starting point builds on the observations that, in these geographies, the complexity and variability of social, economic and political phenomena helps to illuminate the transformative and dynamic processes of governance in our globalized world.
Jennifer Rao-Williams, University of Dundee
Sergio Ramirez Luelmo, Université de Haute-Alsace
'Exploring the Governance of Community Emergency Plans Deployment: An urban/ rural perspective of four communities in central lowlands, Scotland'
The project examines community emergency plans (CEPs) in four communities in Central lowlands Scotland: Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling. Through a what works approach to inform local and community policy and practice in Scotland, the project aims to uncover the impact of the dissemination and deployment of CEPs in these areas.
Anna Wood, University of Cambridge
Aurélien Emile Ahua, Nantes Université / Universite de Bouaké
'Urbanism Network Building in Francophone West Africa'
This project will strengthen a network of researchers in west Africa working on a broad set of questions related to urban governance, and especially on the questions of inequalities related to land, housing and coastal development. It will include network and relationship-building workshops and reflections on shared research questions, avenues of collaboration, interdisciplinary exchange and funding opportunities.
Helen Williams, Northumbria University
Samuel d’Almeida, Independent Scholar
'Pandemic Artefacts: Health, Heritage, and Governance'
This project brings together an MD and a heritage researcher to conduct a knowledge exchange exercise on experiences of the pandemic across national boundaries. A travelling exhibition will be curated to prompt debate with policymakers about future pandemic preparedness. It will tell simple stories to public audiences through the mundane objects of pandemic life, in dialogue across cultures and national governance.
Janina Pescinski, Durham University
Beatrice Zani, CNRS, Laboratoire interdisciplinaire pour la sociologie économiqe (LISE)
'Out of the Ivory Tower: Methods and Practices to Make Academic Research Accessible to Everyone!'
This project intends to exchange emerging practices on alternative pathways to scientific literacy and research dissemination in the social sciences. An interdisciplinary workshop will be convened to open a space for conversation and cooperation among researchers on research dissemination and to share different creative strategies to narrate social sciences.
Lang Thai, University of Lincoln
Sofiya Kartalova, University of Nottingham
Christof Brandtner, Emlyon Business School
Emmanuelle Santoire, CNRS
'Participatory Governance of Just Ecological Transitions'
The project proposes a multidisciplinary exploratory discussion of the different facets of participatory governance in ecological infrastructure decision-making, in a horizon of justice. It will include an initial, exploratory conversation among scholars studying the spatial, political, legal, and organizational dimensions of ecological transitions to explore how participatory governance influences the legitimacy, equity, and efficiency of ecological infrastructure.
Please note: Awards are arranged alphabetically by surname of the grant recipient. The institution is that given at the time of application.