Adam Smith Research Foundation

Previous Awards

2009/10 Round 2

  • Mark Freeman (Economic & Social History): Identifying and Tracing Adult Students c1870-1914 - £1,000
  • Alasdair Young (Politics): Perspectives on the Changing Global Balance of Power - £180
  • Fiona Wilson and Donald MacLean (Management): Sustainability in Rural Co-ops - £1,180
  • Jeanette Findlay (Economics): The Career Progression of Female Academics - £1,634
  • Susan Batchelor (SAASS), Alistair Fraser (SAASS) and Angela Bartie (Strathclyde): Narratives of Glasgow: Oral Histories of Gangs in 1960s Easterhouse - £1,200
  • David Featherstone (GES) and Andrew Smith (SAASS): Subaltern Maritime Networks, Spaces, Practices - £1,558
  • Michele Burman (SAASS), Alistair Fraser (SAASS) and Mo Hume (Politics): Interdisciplinary Research Workshop on 'Gangs and Global Exchange' - £1,570
  • Susan Batchelor (SAASS) and Jon Pickering (Urban Studies): Visual Methods: Exploring Young People's Use of Public Space in Royston - £1,995

2009/10 Round 1

  • Nick Watson (SAASS): Enabling the Adoption of Disabled Children - £500
  • Robert McMaster (Management): Situating Care and Dignity in Health Economics - £912
  • Francesca Scrinzi (SAASS): Women's Associations and Representations of Gender in the Northern League Party: a study of documentary sources - £1,200
  • Louise Lawson (Urban Studies) and Rebecca Shaw (Public Health): Qualitative Researchers Network - £1,200
  • Jane Duckett and Ana Langer (Politics): Media Reporting of China's Health Reforms, 2005-09 - £1,600
  • Gwilym Pryce (Urban Studies) with Nema Dean (Statistics): Does the Shape of Submarkets Reveal Processes of Social Segmentation? - £1,665
  • Sandra Marco Colino (Law): First Interdisciplinary Workshop on Communication Policy and Regulation - £1,303
  • Rebecca Madgin and Julie Clark (Urban Studies): The Impact of Large-Scale Regeneration on People's Attachment to Place: Manchester 2002 and Glasgow 2014 - £1,500
  • Rosemary Elliot (Economic & Social History): Miscarriage in Britain: a medical and cultural history from c1900 - £975
  • Shameen Prashantham (Management): The Internationalization of Smaller Indian Firms - £700
  • Sarah Elliston and Joanne Ramsey (Law): Surrogacy after the HFEA 2008 - A Special Case...? - £1,200
  • Jane Mair (Law): The Place of Religion in Family Law - £963
  • Sarah Oates (Politics): Joint Google-Glasgow Workshop - Establishing the Information, Democracy and Technology Research Network at the University of Glasgow - £600

2008/09

  • Johan Van Der Walt (Law): Constitution Making - £700
  • Mark Livingston, Ade Kearns and Nick Bailey (Urban Studies): Creation of Spatial Data for Analysing the Impact of Deprivation on Individual Attitudes - £1,300
  • Rob Croudace and Julie Clark (Urban Studies): Development of a Network of Researchers on the Urban Regeneration Legacy Impacts of Mega-Sporting Events - £1,000
  • Maurizio Carbone (Politics): Making European Foreign Aid More Effective: an Initial Assessment of the EU's Code of Conduct on Complementarity and Division of Labour - £1,000
  • Libby Porter (Urban Studies): Knowledge, Action and Learning: New Forms of Planning Governance to Create Resilient Cities - £1,204
  • Mo Hume (Politics): Banality of Violence? Towards a Theorisation of Violence in Latin America - £1,222
  • Fergus McNeill (SCCJR/GSSW): Developing Comparative Research on Community Sanctions in Europe - £1,343
  • Vikki Turbine (Politics): Women, Welfare and Legal Claims: Mapping the Provision of Legal Advice in Provincial Russia - £1,200
  • Ruth Dukes (Law) - Worker Representation in the European Union - £600
  • Susan Batchelor, Michele Burman & Mo Hume (SCCJR/Politics) - Confronting Danger, Feeling Fear: Gender and Emotions in Research Fieldwork - £1,283
  • Colin Gavaghan (Law): Interdisciplinary Workshop on Personal Identity in Medical Law and Ethics - £1,200
  • Eleanor Gordon (Economic & Social History): 'Sandpit' to Stimulate Inter-Faculty Collaborative Research on the Theme of Gender - £950
  • Duncan Ross (Economic & Social History): American Companies in Scotland, 1945-70 - £1,500
  • Antonios Siganos (Accounting & Finance): Can Small Investors Exploit Stock Market Anomalies? - £600

2007/8 round 2

  • Sarah Oates (Politics): Designing departmental 'sandpits' for research innovation: a pilot study - £400
  • Martin Doris (Law): A first interdisciplinary conference on domestic and international gambling law and regulation - £800
  • Margaret Milner (Accounting & Finance): Investigating the authorship and production of annual reports - £1,100
  • Gesa Helms, Marilyn Keenan & Andy Cumbers (Urban Studies): Changing spaces of work in the post-industrial economy: Young people and the re-structuring of urban labour markets - £1,671
  • Annette Hastings (Urban Studies): Co-operation and conflict in local governance: Using critical discourse analysis to understand 'politeness' in its neighbourhood context - £586
  • Chris Leishman & Moira Munro (Urban Studies): Disaggregating the sub-prime housing impacts of the credit crunch - £1,560
  • Jane Mackinnon & Moira Fischbacher (Management): Exploring multi-agency partnerships in East Glasgow: developing appropriate arrangements for meeting community needs -  £1,130
  • Denis Smith & Moira Fiscbacher (Management): City centre evacuation and new technologies - £1,000
  • Mark Aleksanyan & Jo Danbolt (Accounting & Finance): Assessing the impact of the transition to International Accounting Standards on the quality and usefulness of segmental reporting - £800
  • Fergus MacNeil (SCCJR/Social Work): Developing Comparative Research on Offender Supervision - £450

2007/8 Round 1

  • Nick Bailey, Ade Kearns & Mark Livingston (Urban Studies): Studying people and place through longitudinal data - £950
  • Francesca Stella, Sophie Mamattah (CEES) & Vikki Turbine (Glasgow Caledonian): Workshop with REGION Research Centre, Ul'ianiovsk, Russia - £900 (details of Workshop)
  • Kean Birch (CPPR), Alexandra Plows (Cardiff University) & Sarah Sexton (The Corner House): The political economy of nothing: The problematic framing of bio-citizenship and bio-economies in academic and policy discourse - £1,200
  • Sibylle van der Walt (ASRF), John McKernan & Ken McPhail (Accounting & Finance): Human rights and corporate accountability - £1,450 (details of Workshop - Human rights and corporate accountability) 
  • Brian Girvin (Politics): Constraints and opportunities in the Irish modernisation process - £500
  • Eamonn Butler (CEES): Assessing accession: Central and Eastern Europe in the EU - £800 (see new 'Assessing Accession' online portal)
  • Martin Doris (Law): A first interdisciplinary conference on domestic and international gambling law and regulation - £1,000
  • Michele Burman (SAASS & SCCJR): Different systems, similar outcomes? Tracking attrition in reported rape cases - £1,350
  • Charles Woolfson (Law): Collaboration with Center of Excellence for Research on Migration, Economy & Society - £550
  • Gwilym Pryce (Urban Studies): Does access to employment drive the value of land? - £1,000