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Current Projects

We fund and support several Major Projects, and Research Development Projects every year.  

This year's Major projects are noted below. For details of Research Development projects this year, please click here. 

Community as an Enabler of Scientific Progress and Innovation

Investigating the role of communities as drivers of scientific progress
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Reconceptualising Resistance

Exploring disciplinary and methodological orientations; divergence between empirical, theoretical, and normative framings of resistance and the role of the academy
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Mercy and Justice

Tackling the pressing problem of mercy’s potential for harm.
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Circulatory Materials

Challenging/critically recasting a growing body of work on the ‘circular economy’ premised on extending 'life-cycles' of products and maintaining material circulation
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2024 - 26 Project - Tübingen College of Fellows - Durham IAS collaboration

The aim of the project is to allow the IAS and the College of Fellows to extend current work in this area at each university into a wider understanding of ‘Belonging’.
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