Research funding
The School has been successful in securing research funding from sources in the UK and Europe.
Research funded by major awards from the ESRC includes: governing drug related crime; a project on globalisation, regulatory competition and audio-visual regulation; organ transplantation; work on social exclusion, drugs and violence; dispute resolution and avoidance in education.
AHRC are funding a major project on the impact of the criminal process on health care ethics and practice.
The European Commmission funds research on, for example, the ethics of human stem cell research; reprogenetics; ethics and obesity; organised crime and the movement of people across borders.
Numerous grants have been secured from the British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, Nuffield Foundation, probation and prison services, government bodies, local authorities and charities, funding research in a wide range of areas including environmental research, asylum adjudication, treatment and employment of drug users, and the regulation of SMEs.
The School's Research Manager provides administrative support in making applications for funding, and post-award management.
The Wellcome Trust has made a substantial strategic award to the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation (iSEI website)