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Public policy in food markets: understanding advertising and choice inter-dependencies – PPFM (EST010223 1 EST010924 1)
The objective of the project is to study (i) how past choices and exposure to advertising affect people's food and drink purchasing behavior, (ii) how these dependencies influence firms' pricing and advertising strategies, and (iii) how this influences the design of public policy to improve diet. U
Atmospheres of (counter)terrorism in European Cities – ACT-EU (EST0110171)
The project’s concern with the felt quality and intangible aspects of counterterrorism in cities leads to different ways of posing questions about urban security/counter-terrorism, focusing for example on how security and security infrastructures feel instead of how they appear or what they mean.
Linking National and Regional Income Inequality: Cross-Country Data Harmonization and Analysis – REGINEQ (ES-T010525-1)
Many studies have shown an increase in income inequality, particularly among the top 1% of earners. These national income inequalities partly reflect internal regional inequalities within countries, where a gap is growing between «superstar« cities (London, Paris, New York) and declining industrial
'Beyond ‘Left Behind Places’: Understanding Diverse Trajectories of Urban and Regional Change' – DESPEREG(EST0102581)
The aim of the project is to develop a new understanding of demographic and socio-economic change in peripheral regions, examining the circumstances and prospects of places and people currently categorised together as ‘left behind’. It will advance understandings of uneven regional development as a
Mapping History -- What Historical Maps Can Tell Us About Urban Development? – MAPHIS (ES\T010371\1)
The proposed research develops novel, interdisciplinary methods that facilitate the extraction of information from historical maps to study the evolution of land use patterns and urban growth. Specifically, we will (i) employ insights from imagery techniques and photogrammetry to extract colour-code
Shaping 21st Century AI – SHAPING AI ES-T01069X-1
Talk about “artificial intelligence” (AI) is abundant. Politicians, experts and start-up founders tell us that AI will change how we live, communicate, work and travel tomorrow. Autonomous vehicles, the detection of illnesses, automated filtering of misinformation and hate speech – AI is seemingly s
Muslim-Jewish encounter, diversity & distance in urban Europe: religion, culture and social model – ENCOUNTER-ES-T011114-1
This proposal is for a study of intercultural, interethnic and interreligious encounters as exemplified by Jews and Muslims in urban Europe. The largest European populations of these two groups - overwhelmingly urban, concentrated in the same cities, and, strikingly, often in the same neighbourhoods
Police Accountability-towards international standards – POLACS (ES T011769 1)
Against the backdrop of increased powers and resources attributed to police agencies for combating terrorism and other newly perceived threats in many mature democracies, the POLACS project compares levels of empowerment for citizens through accountability mechanism (independent oversight bodies, po