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Sustainable Development 2018 Programme

This programme funds researchers in the humanities and social sciences working on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and generating evidence on the challenges and opportunities faced in developing countries.
Start date
2018
Duration
Up to 27 months
Departments
International
Programme status
Ongoing
Programmes
Sustainable Development Programme
Scheme notes

Funded by the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (through the Global Challenges Research Fund).

This programme funds excellent, policy-oriented research, aimed at addressing the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and advancing the UK’s Aid Strategy. Supported by the Government's £1.5 billion Global Challenges Research Fund, it provides funding to researchers in the humanities and the social sciences working to generate evidence on the challenges and opportunities faced in developing countries.

The second round of this programme, which launched in 2018, funded 27 projects relating to issues around heritage, dignity and/or violence.

For more details about the programme and the eligibility requirements, please see the scheme notes.

Contact details

Please contact [email protected] or call 020 7969 5220 for further information.

Projects

An Archive of Activism: Gender and Public History in Postcolonial Ghana

Art Heritage, Resilience and Humanitarianism in South Sudan

Bringing the Outside In: Merging Local Language and Literacy Practices to Enhance Classroom Learning and Achievement

Building Critical, Democratic and Peaceful Communities in Post-War Sri Lanka: the Role of Traditional Arts and Ritual

Celebrating Local Stewardship in a Global Market: Community Heritage, Intellectual Property Protection and Sustainable Development in India

Conceptualising, Defining and Measuring Sexual Harassment: an Exploratory Study in Tanzania

Dignity Without Danger: Collaboratively Analysing Stigma and Taboos to Develop Innovative Strategies to Address Menstrual Exclusion in Nepal

Dignity, Heritage and Desirable Development: Grounding the Sustainable Development Goals with Pastoralist Communities in Tanzania

Documentality and Display: Archiving and Curating the Violent Past in Contemporary South America

Exploring the Experience of Violence and Loss of Dignity Among Rohingyas in Bangladesh and Internally Displaced People in Afghanistan

Heritage Repertoires for Inclusive and Sustainable Development in Egypt and Beyond

Indigenous Biocultural Heritage for Sustainable Development

Large Water Projects and Conflicted Territorial Identities in Sub-Saharan Africa: the Case of the Development of the Senegal River

Living on the Line of Control: Mapping Lives, Violence, and Development in Indian and Pakistani Administered Kashmir

Media and Transitions to Democracy – Journalistic Practices in Communicating Conflicts: the Arab Spring

Memorialising Ancestral Landscapes Through Inter-Cultural Heritage Making in the Brazilian Northwest Amazon

Negotiating Relationships and Redefining Traditions: Syrian and Iraqi Women Refugees in Jordan

Protecting Survivors of Torture and Ill-Treatment: Dignity, Violence and Human Rights in Poor Communities

Recovery with Dignity

Rohingya Journeys of Violence and Resilience in Bangladesh and its Neighbours: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Sustainable Development for Pastoralist Women in India: Heritage, Dignity and Adaptations in Times of Rapid Change

Sustainable Lives in Scarred Landscapes: Heritage, Environment and Violence in the China-Myanmar Jade Trade

The Juridification of Resource Conflicts: Legal Cultures, Moralities and Environmental Politics in Central America

Towards an Alternative Model of Heritage as Sustainable Development: Uyghur Meshrep in Kazakhstan

Traces of Jewish Memory in Contemporary Tunisia

Visualising Gender-Based Violence in Graphic Awareness Campaigns in Nepal

Well-Being: Indigenous Wells, Pastoralist Biocultural Heritage and Community Archaeology for Sustainable Development in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia

When States Fail: Forced Displacement, Religious Diplomacy and Human Security in the Eastern Orthodox World

Whose Heritage Matters? Mapping, Making and Mobilising Heritage Values for Sustainable Livelihoods in Cape Town and Kisumu

Young Palestinians' Responses to House Demolitions: Youth Agency for Sustainable Development?

‘Sustainable’ Development and Atmospheres of Violence: Experiences of Environmental Defenders

Publications

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