Funding Application Success

Members of HOMELandS have received awards from major funding bodies in the UK, Europe and other countries as well as internal funding from the University of Westminster Research Communities. Here are some of the ongoing and recently completed funded projects. We are interested in developing further collaboration and partnership with other universities, NGOs and community groups to engage with funding applications and impactful research into migration and diaspora in the UK and globally. 

Maria Granados

  • Maria Granados, ‘Developing a Gender Empowerment Guide for Social Enterprises in the UK through Participatory Research’, Research England, Participatory Research Fund, £4,926, 2022. (Principal Investigator).
  • Maria Granados, ‘Improving Local Government Resettlement Planning to Support the Social Integration of Syrian Refugees in London’. Research England, Policy Support Fund, £8,148, 2022. (Co-investigator)
  • Maria Granados, ‘What About the Migrants: Impact of COVID in Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia’, University of Westminster Research Communities COVID-19 Funding Call, £3,195, 2020. (Principal Investigator)
  • Maria Granados, ‘Barefoot Entrepreneurs: Struggles of Waste Pickers in the Colombian Informal Economy’, British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants, £9,287, 2019. (Principal Investigator)

Saskia Huc-Hepher 

  • Saskia Huc-Hepher, co-lead on the ‘London Transformation Project’ (2017 - present), which received small grant from the Language Acts and Worldmaking strand of the AHRC Open World Research Initiative, 2018-2020.   
  • Saskia Huc-Hepher, AHRC-funded researcher for the Big UK Domain Data in the Arts and Humanities (BUDDAH) Project, led by the Institute of Historical Research, the British Library and the Oxford Internet Institute, 2014-2015. 
  • Saskia Huc-Hepher – researcher on the Analytical Access to the Domain Dark Archive (AADDA) Project (final report), 2012.    

Ripin Kalra

Ripin Kalra, ‘Covid-19 Pandemic and Coping in the Mobility Sector in Dhaka and Delhi’, University of Westminster Research Communities Grant, 2019-2021. 

Petros Karatsareas

  • Petros Karatsareas, Lorentz Center, Netherlands. Workshop grant: Ethics in Linguistics. Primary applicant: Marina Terkourafi. Co-applicants: Felix Ameka, Mary Linn, and Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto, £25,000, 2021.
  • Petros Karatsareas, University of Westminster. Internal grant. Support for the development of impact case study for REF2021. Projects: From Camden to Enfield: A Cypriot migration story (with Athena Mandis, Queen Mary University of London). https://vimeo.com/378534520 and The Grenglish Project (with Anna Charalambidou, Middlesex University) https://www.grenglish.org, £11,210, 2019. 
  • Petros Karatsareas, University of Patras. Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation. Project: Digitizing the Cappadocian dialectal landscape. Awarded to Dimitra Melissaropoulou (PI). Member of the research team, 270,000, 2019. 
  • Petros Karatsareas, University of Westminster. Health Innovation and Wellbeing Research Community Funding Scheme. Project: Healing through language? A mixed-methods study into linguistic discontinuity and wellbeing in UK-based migrant contexts. Awarded to Jonathan Kasstan (PI). Member of the research team, £10,464, 2019. 
  • Petros Karatsareas, Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community AHRC-funded OWRI Programme. Flexible funding allocation. Project: Non-standard and minority varieties as community languages in the UK: towards a new strategy for language maintenance, £11,455.11, 2018. 
  • Petros Karatsareas, ‘Makers, advocates, and users of language policy as co-creators of sociolinguistic research: onward migrants in London’, a Policy Support project funded by the Research England funds from the University of Westminster running from March until July 2022.  
  • Petros Karatsareas, ‘Migrant food, languages, and identities in the dawn of the post-Brexit and COVID-19 era’, a Participatory Research project funded by the Research England funds from the University of Westminster running from March until July 2022.

Jonathan Kasstan

  • Jonathan Kasstan, ‘Towards Safeguarding Chagossian Creole: Understanding How Language Attitudes and Ideologies Shape Practice in Exile and Exodus’, British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants, £9,966.20, 2024-2026, SRG2324/240017 (Principal Investigator). Co-I Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University)
  • Jonathan Kasstan, ‘A Network for Rethinking Academic Research Ethics Frameworks and Processes in the Humanities’. AHRC, £24,085, 2021-2023, AH/V001043/1 (Principal Investigator). Co-I: Geoff Pearson (University of Manchester)
  • Jonathan Kasstan, ‘Tackling the UK’s languages crisis: a role for linguistics in schools’. Language Acts and Worldmaking Small Grants Scheme, AHRC Open World Research Initiative (OWRI), £8,062, 2019-2021. (Co-Investigator) PI: Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University), Co-I: Norma Schifano and Alice Core (University of Birmingham) and Co-I: Anna Havinga (University of Bristol)
  • Jonathan Kasstan, ‘Universals of grammatical change in language obsolescence’. Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (ECF-2017-584), £100,000, 2017-2020 (Principal Investigator).

Debra Kelly

  • Debra Kelly, Deputy Director and Co-I, flagship AHRC-funded Open World Research Initiative Research (OWRI) Project Language Acts and Worldmaking (£6 million; 2016-2021); led by King’s College London in partnership with University of Westminster, Queen Mary University of London and the Open University. The research aimed to regenerate and transform modern language learning by foregrounding language's power to shape how we live and make our worlds. Learning a language means understanding the historicity of concepts, beliefs and social practices—how they operate in the past and present. The research project and its and partnerships demonstrate the indispensable value of language learning for understanding how societies are structured and governed and for empowering culturally aware and self-reflective citizens.
  • Following this: Deputy Director Centre for Language Acts and Worldmaking, Global Cultures Institute, King’s College London (2022-present); Visiting Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London (2016-present). 

Terry Lamb

Terry Lamb, research lead in an EU-funded project titled ‘Home Away from Home’, which researched best practices in the integration of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in European societies through promoting innovative youth actions and empowering young volunteers and professionals. Total project funding from European Commission (Erasmus+) was €196,065 with €43,447 to Westminster (research lead).  

Andrew Linn

  • Andrew Linn, ‘EMI Project Evaluation to the British Council’, British Council, 2022. 
  • Andrew Linn, ‘Current Practice in English Medium Education (EME) in Higher Education (HE): A Selection of Case Studies’, British Council, 2019-2020.
  • Andrew Linn, Developing a Language Policy for Higher Education in Uzbekistan, 2017-2018.
  • Andrew Linn, English in Europe: Opportunity or Threat? (Principal Investigator on a Leverhulme International Network, 2012-2016)
  • Andrew Linn, Ola Nordmann Goes West: Using Virtual Worlds and On-line Social Networking Technologies as Historical Research Tools (Principal Investigator on an AHRC research grant, 2012-2014)

Federica Mazzara

  • Federica Mazzara, ‘Migrants in Transit: A Transdisciplinary Writing Programme for Emerging Scholars of Migration in Tunisia’, British Academy. £25,460, 2023-2025 (Principal Applicant). HOMELandS members Dr Lilian Miles, Dr Saskia Huc-Hepher and colleagues from institutes in Tunisia participate as Co-Applicants. 
  • Federica Mazzara, Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices (2019-2023). MIGRANTS: Erasmus Plus KA2. The Project was awarded €964.000, of which €167.000 have been allocated to the University of Westminster. 

Lilian Miles

  • Ahmad Rashidi Mohamed Tahir, Tim Freeman and Lilian Miles (20,000 MYR) University of Cyberjaya Research Grant Scheme (URGS), ‘Social Media Driven Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) Awareness for Urban Rohingya Adolescents in Malaysia’ (December 2023- November 2025)
  • Federica Mazzara, Samira Mechri, Lilian Miles, Tim Freeman, Saskia Huc-Hepher, Rim Triki and Nico Pizzolato (£25, 460) British Academy International Writing Workshops Grant (WW22\100216), ‘Migrants in Transit: A Transdisciplinary Writing Programme for Emerging Scholars of Migration in Tunisia’ (March 2023-March 2025)  
  • Lilian Miles and Tim Freeman (£23, 540) UK Research and Innovation Additional QR and Additional RCIF Grant Allocations 2022-2023 (through the University of Westminster) ‘Supporting the Reproductive Health Needs of Women Migrant Workers in the service and hospitality industries, women migrant domestic workers and women Rohingya refugees in Malaysia’ (January 2023 to May 2023)  
  • Lilian Miles, Serena Masino, National Centre for Social Research International, University of Westminster () (£200,000), EU Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, ‘Asylum Seeker Decision Making’ (March 2022 to October 2022) (Co-applicant)
  • Lilian Miles, Maria Granados and Tim Freeman (£8148) University of Westminster Strategic Priorities Fund ‘Improving Local Government Resettlement planning to support the social integration of Syrian refugees in London’ (March 2022 to July 2022) (Lead applicant)
  • Lilian Miles, Noraida Endut and Tim Freeman (£150,000) British Council Newton Fund Impact Scheme, ‘Piloting Health Interventions to advance the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Women Migrant Workers in Malaysia’ Grant Number 536753284 (April 2020-October 2021) (UK Principal Applicant)
  • Lilian Miles & Tim Freeman (£10,000) University of Westminster Research Communities COVID-19 Funding Scheme (supported by the Quintin Hogg Trust) ‘The 'Inclusion' Challenge: UK Social integration of low-skilled and low-waged migrant workers during the pandemic’, (August 2020-July 2021) (Lead Applicant)
  • Lilian Miles & Tim Freeman (US$15,000) UNWOMEN, Strategy Paper: SDG#5 Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and Violence Against Women Migrant Workers Services (VAWMV) in Malaysia (June 2019-August 2019) (Joint Project Leader)
  • Angus Nurse, Lilian Miles & Carly Guest, ‘Investigation of measures to reduce dog attacks and promote responsible ownership amongst dog owners with dog control issues’, Contract Ref No. AW1410 (October 2018 to August 2020) (£72,000)
  • Noraida Endut & Lilian Miles (£25,000) United Nations Gender Theme Group, ‘A Study on the Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights of Women Migrant Workers in Malaysia: NGOs, Capacity Building and Women's Empowerment’ (April 2017-April 2018) (Joint-Principal Investigator)
  • Noraida Endut & Lilian Miles (£10, 000) British Academy Newton Mobility Grant Scheme, ‘Improving Institutional responses to maternity protection in Malaysia: Drawing from MP experiences and practices in the UK’ Award Reference: NG150226, 2016 (UK applicant)
  • Lilian Miles, Bianca Stumbitz and Suzan Lewis (£45, 000) British Council Newton Researcher Links Workshop Grant, ‘Advancing Maternity Protection in Malaysia: Meeting Social Welfare and Business Needs, and Contributing to Economic Development’ Grant WK 204154386, 2015. (Principal Investigator)
  • International Labour Organization (US$10,000). Six months. Part of a team of Middlesex University researchers, and co-author of, report on international literature on maternity protection in SMEs and its links to firm productivity and broader societal benefits, 2014. 
  • International Labour Organization (US$30,000). Seven months. Part of a team of Middlesex University researchers to report on international literature on HR practices and positive firm-level outcomes in Small and medium-Sized Enterprises, 2013. 
  • Lilian Miles (£1, 175) Society of Legal Scholars Academic Purposes Fund  ‘Accommodating Religious Diversity in the Corporate Workplace: A Pilot Study’, 2009.   
  • Lilian Miles, (£3, 000) The British Academy Small Research Grant ‘Corporate Governance in Western and Islamic Communities: Prospects for Convergence?’ Grant Number SG-46941, 2007. 

Roza Tsagarousianou

Roza Tsagarousianou, ‘Media, Migration and Voice’ with Federica Mazzara, University of Westminster Research Communities Grant.

Cangbai Wang

  • Cangbai Wang, ‘Global Diasporic Chinese Museums Network Initiative’, AHRC, £31,350, 2023-2025. (Principal Investigator)
  • Cangbai Wang, ‘Remapping the Cultural and Linguistic Landscape of the Chinese in Britain’, Language Acts and Worldmaking Small Grants Scheme, AHRC Open World Research Initiative (OWRI), £1,500, 2018-2019. (Principal Investigator)
  • Cangbai Wang, Theories and Practices of Chinese Diasporic Cultural Heritage: New Perspectives and New Methods’, funded by All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, PRC, RMB￥60,000, 2013-2015. (Principal Investigator)
  • Cangbai Wang, ‘Diasporic Chinese heritage and museums in the PRC’, University's China Committee London, £1,500, 2013. (Principal Investigator)
  • Cangbai Wang, ‘Cultural Heritage in China; Changing Trajectories, Changing Tasks’, funded by Co-ordination of Research between Europe and China (Co-Reach), 2009-2011. (Co-investigator) PI: Harriet Evans and Bao Jing.
  • Cangbai Wang, ‘Locating Hong Kong in the Global Network of Professional Migrants’, funded by Hong Kong Research Grant Council, HK$ 771,844, 2007-2009. (Principal Investigator)