£3.2m funding for East Mids uni project
Researchers at the University of Northampton have won a £3.2m grant to explore the issue of migration.
The university's arts school won the funding from the Marie Curie Initial Training Networks fund.
It is carrying out a three-year research project with Germany's University of Münster, India's University of Mumbai, Stockholm University and two other UK universities - the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the University of Oxford.
Janet Wilson, professor in English and postcolonial studies at the University of Northampton, said: "This is wonderful news and a real coup for all the universities involved.
"In the last ten years migration around the world has soared. As transport links have developed, more people have been able to go back and forth between countries and large numbers of people, and often entire groups or even nations, are on the move for a wide variety of reasons - everything from financial to political."
The consortium's bid is called CoHaB and will include the training of doctoral and postdoctoral scholars who will focus on the theme 'Constructions of Home and Belonging'.
