Current funded research

• ‘SEAD’ project - Sex Education for Adults with Disabilities, their parents and staff, funded by the European Commission. Comprising nine partners from seven European countries (Belgium, Germany, Finland, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands and the UK), the SEAD project aims to apply creative arts and drama to the area of sex education for people with intellectual disabilities. The project will develop a ‘tool kit’ and materials to encourage creative approaches to sex education with adults with intellectual disabilities.

• Parent Youth Relations, funded by the University of Sheffield

• 'Why Was Myra Hindley Evil?' Toward a Sociological Understanding, funded by the British Academy.
  The project will address how Myra Hindley was seen by the public as well as examining the social forces that were shaping those understandings

• ‘I might not live that long!’ A study of young people’s pension planning in the UK, funded by University of Sheffield Research Stimulation Fund

• Home Improvements: Improving quality and value in the provision of volume house building through architectural knowledge exchange, funded by the AHRC

• If the Shoe Fits: Footwear, Identification and Transition, funded by the ESRC

Emeritus Professor Jenny Hockey

Dr Victoria Robinson

• Green Roofs and Green Spaces, funded by Lindum Turf and University of Sheffield.
  The project will explore children's views of green roofs and green spaces.

• Making Science Public: challenges and opportunities, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. A five-year research programme funded by the Leverhulme Trust (2012-2017) looking at the challenges involved in making science more public; how are attempts to do so changing the relationship between science, politics and publics, and what are the normative implications for problems relating to political legitimacy, scientific authority and democratic participation?

• Deploying Synthetic Biology in the Water Industry, funded by the EPSRC

• RESPECT Rules, Expectations & Security through Privacy-Enhanced Convenience Technologies, funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).

• Scalable Measures for Automated Recognition Technologies (SMART), funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
  The SMART project will evaluate the use of 'intelligent' surveillance systems, and consider the social, ethical and legal implications of their increased deployment.

• Increasing Resilience in Surveillance Societies (IRISS), funded by EU Framework 7 Programme

• The Readiness is All: ways people anticipate dying in the UK, funded by the ESRC

• Visualising the Fetus: Exploring the Production and Use of Obstetric Magnetic Resonance Imaging, funded by The British Academy.

Dr Kate Reed

Dr Susan Molyneux-Hodgson

• Facilitating participatory approaches with children in the Niger Delta, funded by University of Sheffield

• Representing Self, Representing Ageing, funded by the ESRC

• Everyday Decision Making by People with Dementia, funded by the ESRC

• European Research Area in Aging (ERA-AGE), funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)

• New Dynamics of Ageing, funded by the ESRC

Professor Alan Walker

Dr Lorna Warren

• INNOVAge, funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)

• MOPACT (Mobilising the Potential of Active Ageing in Europe), funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)

• SIForAGE, funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)

• Digital by Default: South Yorkshire Alpha Project, funded by The Cabinet Office

• Q Cinema, funded by University of Sheffield

• Overcoming Barriers to Mainstreaming Assisted Living Technology, funded by the Technology Strategy Board and the ESRC

• Look Closer: Augmenting The Courtauld Gallery funded by The University of Sheffield HEIF-4 Knowledge Transfer Scheme and The Museum, Libraries & Archives Council (MLA Council, DCMS)

• Participating in Search Design: A Study of George Thomason's Newsbooks, 1649-1653, funded by the AHRC, Speculative Research

• RECODE (Policy RECommendations for Open Access to Research Data in Europe), funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)