Funding and impact

Our research is supported by a range of national and international funding bodies, charities, and learned Societies and scientific organizations

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National and international funding bodies

  • the British Academy
  • New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Cooperation in Europe (NORFACE) 
  • Natural Environment Research Council (e.g., Global Challenges Research Fund
  • Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science
  • the National Science Foundation, USA
  • the European Research Council
  • the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (e.g., Standard grants, Impact Acceleration Accounts, UK-South Korea Connections Grant)
  • the Leverhulme Trust

Learned Societies and Scientific Organizations

  • American Psychological Association (APA)
  • British Psychological Society (BPS)
  • European Association of Social Psychology (EASP)
  • Society For the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)

Charities & Trusts

  • Higher Education Innovation Fund
  • Community Relations Council, Northern Ireland
  • Education Endowment Foundation, UK
  • Save the Children
  • Fire Service Research and Training Trust
  • Sussex Partnership Foundation NHS Trust
  • The Pears Foundation
  • National Association for Voluntary and Community Action
  • Alzheimers Society
  • Richard Benjamin Trust
  • LA CAIXA Foundation

We regularly host postdoctoral and visiting fellows funded by different sources such as the Newton International Fellowship of the British Academy, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions of the European Union, and the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship.

To translate our findings into policy and societal change, we regularly collaborate with external partners. Some of our past and ongoing partnerships included the following:

  • Roskilde Festival, Denmark
  • UEFA
  • Safe Events, Ireland
  • Event Safety Academy, Netherlands
  • IBIT, Germany
  • Event Safety Institute, Netherlands
  • European Space Agency
  • Ukraine Diplomatic Academy
  • Brighton Chamber of Commerce
  • Realising Opportunities
  • Northern Rangeland Trust (Kenya)
  • Monduli District Council (Tanzania)
  • Plymouth City Council
  • Met Office
  • Foundation for Common Land (UK)
  • Rural Community Network, Ujamaa CRT (Tanzania)