In 2023-24, ISAP awarded nineteen global research awards to fifteen different departments and research units. This led to collaborations with colleagues from over fifteen countries with activities spanning from writeshops to conferences and research trips.
The Global Research Fund (GRF) aims to support collaborative endeavours between LSE faculty and other international research partners. The scheme acts as a seed fund to enable LSE researchers to initiate and carry out collaborative research activities that facilitate joint research output and future international grant applications.
Here are some of the projects supported in 2023-24:
Dr Michael Muthukrishna spent part of the summer in Berlin to work on a joint project with Iyad Rahwan, the director of the Max Planck Center for Humans and Machines. This visit intended to kickstart a long-term collaboration on AI and human behaviour and provided time to work on a joint grant proposal.
Read more about their work here.
In June 2024, Prof. Elizabeth Robinson, Director of the GRI, collaborated with Burkinabe colleagues to develop and write a draft policy brief with the aim of improving food security and the health of the most vulnerable in Burkina Faso. This kind of initiative is crucial to develop a more granular evidence base and implement change.
To learn more about their project, read this page.
Prof. Neil Cummins, Prof. Eric Schneider, and Dr Melanie Xu from the department of Economic History hosted a two-day workshop drawing experts from Italy, Belgium, China, the USA and Denmark to triangulate common methodological and data issues related to genealogies, across time and space.
To learn more about this project, read our full page here.
Dr. Gloria Novović attended the inception workshop of the Scaling Care Innovations in Africa Initiative, an initiative seeking to address the disproportionate share of responsibility for unpaid care work that falls on women. The five-day workshop, which took place in Nairobi, gathered representatives from 18 initiatives funded across the African region, as well as feminist academics working on this issue.
Read about this multi-country research project here.
If you are working on an international project and are looking for funds, check our website for the next round of applications in 2024-25.