RENEW

ADR Support Fund

The focus of the ADR Fund in 2021/22 has been to support the building of collaborative relationships between colleagues and supporting a shift toward a longer timeframe for planning and writing of grant proposals, especially as many calls now require significant external stakeholder involvement alongside academic coordination.

The fund has supported 31 projects across all the departments in the College, including five via the Digital Societies Grow House, totalling over £100,000, and a further four were supported via the Impact Fund. Activity undertaken has included:

• Workshops planning for an ESRC Centre bid on Global Authoritarianism

• An interdisciplinary workshop on Family, Law and Technology • Development of the Violence, Evidence &

Justice Research Network • A Law, Testimony and Trauma symposium • A networking event for scholars focussing on

Latin America

Research Away Day

In addition to the networking events supported by the ADR fund, now that we can meet in person once again, several away days have been happening across departments in the College. It has been wonderful to see people in person, rather than on screen. We also took the opportunity to get together key College research and knowledge exchange colleagues in June, with a day of lively debate and discussion.