International research projects

Exploring Meals on Wheels as a service provided to vulnerable adults in South-East Asia: establishing food safety, nutritional, social care, psychological and policy implications. Principal Investigator:  Angeliki Papadaki. This project falls under the Worldwide University Network, Global Research Group on SDGs in Asia: Solutions for Sustainable Development in Asia. 

Innovating behaviour & health surveillance for cardiovascular disease prevention in Malaysia. Principal Investigator: Laura Johnson (Medical Research Council). 

Systems Actions to Malnutrition in All Its Forms in Chinese and South-East Asian Cities - Developing Double-Duty, Population-Level Interventions. Principal Investigator: Bai Li (Medical Research Council). 

Empowering Citizen-Oriented Smart City Innovation in Mexico (ECOSCIM) Principal Investigator: Alex Marsh. The first ever ESRC-CONACYT collaboration to understand citizen oriented smart city innovation in Mexico (ESRC). 

Critical Human Security and Sustainable Urban Development in India Principal Investigator: Patricia Kennet (Completed 2020). 

Cannabis Africana: drugs and development in Africa – focused on Cannabis and Development in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa. Principal Investigator: Gernot Klantschnig (ESRC). 

Hidden Narratives of Transnational Organised Crime in West Africa. . Principal Investigator: Gernot Klantschnig. The project explores local narratives on the drug trade and irregular migration in two of West Africa’s major trade and control hubs: Lagos (Nigeria) and Agadez (Niger).  (ESRC and the Partnership for Conflict, Crime and Security Research). 

Physical and mental health toll of food insecurity due to climate change: A pilot exploration of Uganda and South Africa. Principal Investigator: Mary Zhang (completed 2021).  

Vicky Sharley is undertaking research on child neglect in Namibia and is working with Isabella Aboderin and PARC to extend her focus to other sub-Saharan countries. 

Exploring Mediterranean diet adoption strategies in non-Mediterranean countries. This project is a cross-country collaboration between the University of Bristol, the University of South Australia, the University of the Sunshine Coast (Australia) and the University of Limerick (Ireland). Co-Principal Investigator: Angeliki Papadaki. 

Transforming Social Inequalities through Inclusive Climate Action This project will address key issues at the nexus of climate change, sustainable livelihoods, poverty and inequality. Principal Investigator: Dave Gordon (ESRC). 

International Organization for Migration's Global Migration Data Analysis Centre. Principal Investigator: Ann Singleton. Singleton is coordinating 16 international partners in the Worldwide Universities Network in order to address global migration policy, including hidden dimensions of migration.  

Multidimensional Child Poverty Analysis. Principal Investigator: Dave Gordon (completed 2021). 

Country- cluster- and individual effects on attitudes towards intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income countries: Do neighbourhoods matter? A multi-country spatial multilevel pathway analyses. Principal Investigator: Lynnmarie Sardinha working with the World Health Organisation.  

Wealth, education and retirement trajectories in aged knowledge economies of Japan and the UK  Principal Investigator: Misa Izuhara (ESRC). 

Who Minds the Children? Clarifying the Role of Public Policies and Socio-Ecological Factors in Non-Adult Child Supervision in Low- and Middle-Income Countries?  Collaborator: Afua Twum-Danso Imoh (SSHRC – Canada). 

Identifying communicative expertise in child and family social work supervision: interdisciplinary and international perspectives Principal Investigator: Jon Symonds (Completed 2020).