CASEI conducts original inter-disciplinary research in a range of areas relating to inequalities. It draws upon the individual expertise of Centre members and affiliates. Our research is theoretically informed, empirical and evidence-led, participatory, collaborative and cutting-edge with a focus on developing impact and engagement in challenging and reducing inequalities locally, nationally and globally.

Networks and Partners

External (Networks, Partners and Organisations that CASEI and its members have worked with): 

• Reactionary Politics Research Network
• Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
• Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment
• The Sociological Review
• The Runnymede Trust
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation
• Community Policy Forum
• Citizens UK
• Refugee Action
• Morecambe Bay Poverty Truth Commission
• Race Matters Network
• Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism
• C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism 
• Institute for Research into Superdiversity
• UK in a Changing Europe
• The Sociological Review Foundation
• APPG Citizens Rights
• House of Lords EU Affairs Committee
• UK Mission to Brussels
• New Europeans
• British in Europe
• the3million
• Hong Kongers in Britain
• Migrant Voice
• Migrant Rights’ Network
• Migration Museum  
• Museum of London
• Poverty Truth National Network
• Morecambe Bay Poverty Truth Commission
• Citizens Advice North Lancashire 
• Lancaster Black History Group 
• Lancaster LITFEST
• Lancaster Sewing Cafe
• Judges Lodging Museum
• NHS Population Health Academy (Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board)

Internal (Lancaster University): 

• Centre for Mobilities Research
• Migrancy Research Group
• Decolonising Lancaster University
• Cultural Political Economy Research Centre
• Global Lancaster
• Institute for Social Futures
• Centre for the Study of Environmental Change
• Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies
• Centre for Disability Research
• Centre for Child and Family Justice Research
• Racial Equity in Policy Network
• Feminist Media Studies Research Group
• Centre for Science Studies
• Social Action Research Group

Affiliated Funding and Projects Since 2024 Relaunch:

Externally Funded:

• 2024: Liberalism’s Shadow: Content, Impact and Response to Far-Right discourse affecting racialised minorities, asylum seekers and refugees, LGBTQI+, women’s rights and working class communities during the 2024/25 electoral cycle in Ireland, COALESCE, PI B Cannon (NUI Maynooth), Consultant A. Winter (Lancaster).  €219,760.42.
• 2021-2024: Rebordering Britain and Britons after Brexit (MIGZEN). M. Benson.  

Internally Funded:

• 2024: CASEI Impact Strategy Workshop, FASS Impact Fund, 2024, A. Winter & D. Duffy, £500.00.

Funding applications currently under review:

• 2025: Thinking through Visuals: An Interdisciplinary and Multi-Stakeholder Strategy for Engaging More Ethically with Image-Based Material in Research, ESRC New Investigator Grant, PI A. Kingdon, CoI A. Winter (Lancaster). £350,000.

Funding applications made but not awarded

• 2024: Leverhulme Research Centre for Global Migration Futures (UPRG), The Leverhulme Trust, PI M. Benson, CoIs: E. Rose, L. Moore, J. Schad, D. Grass, M. Stearn, V. Koller, K. Follis, P. Murrieta-Flores, E. Consterdine, J. Cunningham,
  A. Winter & A. Sirriyeh (Lancaster). £9,656,589.88.
• 2024: History and the Politics of Migration and Asylum in post-Brexit Britain: Revisiting and Reconstructing the Kindertransport, Ugandan Asian ‘Crisis’, and Windrush in Media and Political Narratives, Commentary and Analysis, ESRC NWSSDTP CASE studentship Sociology Pathway, PI A. Winter, M. Benson CoI, external partner The Runnymede Trust, full funding.

Reports by CASEI Members since 2020: 

• Michaela Benson and Nando Sigona. 2024. Humanitarian migration routes, in UK in a Changing Europe (ed.) Migration to the UK: Policy, politics and public opinion. London: UK in a Changing Europe.
• Michaela Benson, Nando Sigona and Elena Zambelli. 2024. Humanitarian visas in a Hostile Environment. MIGZEN Research Brief No. 5.   
• Imogen Tyler and Sarah Campbell. 2024. Poverty stigma: a glue that holds poverty in place. Joseph Rowntree Foundation.  
• Aaron Winter. 2024. Briefing: Islamophobia and Antisemitism. Community Policy Trust.
• Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter. 2024. Creating a crisis: Immigration, racism and the 2024 general election. Runnymede Trust.
• M. Benson, C. Craven, and N. Sigona. 2022. European belongings and political participation after Brexit. MIGZEN Research Brief, No. 4.
• E. Zambelli, M. Benson, and N. Sigona, N. 2022. British-European Families after Brexit. MIGZEN Research Brief, No. 3.
• N. Sigona, C. Craven, M. Benson, and E. Zambelli. 2022. EU citizens in the UK after Brexit. MIGZEN Research Brief, No. 2.
• M. Benson, E. Zambelli, C. Craven, and N. Sigona. 2022. British Citizens in the EU after Brexit. MIGZEN Research Brief, No. 1.