2025-2026 "Integration of immigrants in France and Social Capital". Principal Investigator, to study the role of social capital in the process of integration of foreigners. €60K from the Statistic Division (DSED) of the Direction General des Etrangers en France (Home Office, France).
2022-2024 “Scol’ectiv - Engaging Teachers and Parents through Computer-Aided Learning: The Impact of a Personalised Application on Newly Arrived Allophone Students’ Learning, Integration and Development”. Co-Investigator with F.Gubert and A.Touw (IRD-DIAL, Dauphine University) to pilot a randomized control trial with a fund of €48,166.18 from JPAL, European Social Inclusion Initiative (ESII) (RFP Round 3). In collaboration with researchers in psycho-linguistic in the universities of Lilles, Creteil and Montpellier, the tech start-up LearnEnjoy, and school teachers in France, we develop and analyse the impacts of a personalised application to help refugee children integration and learning in schools while engaging with teachers and parents through computer-aided learning.
2025 -2027 “Strengthening Adaptive Resilience in Mountain Ecosystems and Communities in Pakistan”. Co-Investigator, Fund of GBP 20K from the International Growth Centre, to study the response of communities in Pakistan to climate change and their adaptative agricultural and social practices.
2018 -2023 We received with two colleagues at City a GCRF Research Prize of GBP60K to build a research and cooperation network on Displacement and Development in South Asia (SANDD), involving sociologists, agronomists, economists and local partners in Pakistan.
2018-2023 I received a €35K grant to evaluate the impacts of migration policies on irregular crossings to Europe as part of the European Commission Research and Innovation Programme Horizon 2020 project on “Migration Governance and Asylum Crises” (MAGYc) led by PI François Gemenne (Liege University) under Grant agreement project number 822806. With an interdisciplinary team of political scientists based at Sciences-Po (Paris) and economists, we study the deflection effects of externalisation of migration policies adopted by European countries on flows of irregular migrants and refugees to Europe.
2016 I was commissioned by the Center for Global Development (Washington, London) to write a paper on policies against human muggling (UK 7.5K) and visited them as Fellow.
2009-2013 AFD-AIRD-IRD-HEWLETT “Health Risks and Migration”. Principal Investigator. Funded by the Wiliam and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Agence Française de Développement, the Institut de Recherches pour le Développement under the Grant #2008-2165 (€270K) this project involves partnerships with medical doctors and health sciences researchers in Sub-Sahara Africa to study the links between health risks such as infectious diseases and decisions made by poor households.
2010-2012 NORFACE consortium. As project lead in the TEMPO project on “Temporary Migration Policies” I received €20K to write the paper “Sale of Visas: A Smuggler's Final Song?”.
2008-2012 Hewlett-ESRC ESRC reference RES-183-25-0008 “Effects of Reproductive Health on Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa” Co-Investigator. With a team of development and health economists at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and partners in Malawi we evaluate and analyse the effects of nutrition, maternal and health interventions in Malawi. (£380,724K)
2007 ESRC Reference RES-000-22-1742 “School supply and the effectiveness of Conditional Cash Transfers” Principal investigator. (£40K) This project analyses the interactions between a demand side intervention improving children education and health in Colombia, the Conditional Cash Transfer programme Familias en Accion - and the quality of schools.
2007-2009 DFID-ESRC ESRC reference: RES-167-25-0124 “Human Capital Accumulation and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries”. Co-applicant with IFS team (£621,257K)
2005-2006 Department for Work and Pensions (UK) Reference Number 11c/04/dwp “Ethnic Parity in Jobcentre Plus Programmes and mainstream services”. Co-applicant. (£192,417K)
Sept 2003-April 2004 Training Mobility Research grant to work at UCL / IFS (London).
Sept1994-Sept 1997 Doctoral fellowship from the Center for Econometrics and Statistics (CREST, Malakoff).