Our research focuses on decolonising knowledge, epistemologies, discourse, ideology, and critical theory with social, political and policy impact on:

• International Development Interventions and Policy
• Welfare policy
• Indigenous people, movements & indigeneity
• Education, human rights and memory
• Alternatives to the present socioeconomic system
• The South-South agenda
• The economic and political transformation of emerging economies
• Decolonial feminism
• Race and labour precarisation
• Decolonising critical theory and Marxism

Current projects and networks include

• Development policy - MENASP Middle East and North Africa Social Policy Network (Middle East and North Africa Region) Rana Jawad

• Indigeneity and Higher Education (Mexico) Michael Donnelly (PI) Ana C. Dinerstein (Co-I)

• Conflict and Peace Building (MENA Region) Rana Jawad

• Economic and Political transformation of emerging economies (Brazil) Rosana Pinheiro-Machado

• The global politics of hope in collaboration with the Global Tapestry of Alternatives (Global) Ana C. Dinerstein

• The South-South Platform in collaboration with the Latin American Council for Social Sciences (CLACSO) (Global South) Ana C. Dinerstein

• Participatory film and conservation with indigenous movements (Cambodia) Peter Manning

• Education, Justice and Memory (Cambodia) Peter Manning

• Feminicide, social movements and decolonial feminism (Mexico) Maria Jose Ventura Alfaro (SPS PhD Candidate)

• Racialised labour precarity and labour subjectivity (Barcelona) Josephine Hooker (SPS PhD Candidate)