| 1989-92 |
Recipient of an Economic and Social Research Council Studentship Grant for doctoral studies |
| 1992-93 |
Recipient of £2,500 Glasgow Caledonian University Research Development Funding for a membership survey of Charter 8 |
| 1996 |
Recipient of £5,000 Nuffield Foundation Research Grant to study evolving policy networks in local governance in the York region |
| 1999-2001 |
Recipient of £20,000 ESRC Research Seminar funding for a series of seminars on Policy Transfer and the Future of Governance (with D. Dolowitz and D. Marsh) |
| 1998-2006 |
Provost allowance, recipient of central University funding to support scholarly activity (£9,400 per annum) |
| 2000 |
Recipient of ESRC research training funding (£8,000) for Graduate Easter School entitled ‘Evaluating Cutting Edge Social Science Research’ |
| 2001 |
Recipient of £6,000 research funding from the Joint University Council of the Applied Social Sciences (JUC) for the compilation of a research data base on Public Administration and Public Policy research |
| 2001 |
Recipient of £5,000 JUC research training funding for a Graduate Easter School entitled ‘Studying the Europeanisation of British Public Policy’ |
| 2001 |
Recipient of £40,000 research funding from the Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies (Sri Lanka) and NORAD (Sri Lanka) for a research project entitled, ‘Back to Basics: Reconstruction and Development in Sri Lanka’, based in Colombo, Sri Lanka (with Professor Sultan Barakat) |
| 2002 |
Recipient of £5,000 British Council Exploratory Link funding with Institute of Social Sciences in Hochiminh City, Vietnam |
| 2002 |
Recipient of £8, 000 ESRC research training funding to support a ‘Professional Practice Conference’ at the PAC Annual Conference, 2-4 September 2002, University of York |
| 2002 |
Recipient of European Commission Funding for a project entitled ‘Enhancing the Capacity of the Afghan Public Administration’ with Professor Sultan Barakat (£160,184) |
| 2002 to 2006 |
Recipient of British Council/DFID Six Year Link funding with Institute of Social Sciences in Hochiminh City, Vietnam (£160,000) |
| 2003 |
Recipient of £14,000 from the E-University to develop on-line text for the module Policy-making and Policy Processes |
| 2003 to 2008 |
Recipient of £8,000 per annum to support editorship activities for the journal Policy Studies (£40,000) |
| 2004 |
Recipient of £20,000 WUN funding to support a conference at Zhejiang University entitled ‘Strategic Management in Urban Governance’ |
| 2005-2006 |
Recipient (with S. Barakat) of $750,000 from the World Bank to evaluate the National Solidarity Programme in Afghanistan |
| 2006-2007 |
Recipient of £10,000 to develop on-line texts in Public Administration and Development and Understanding Governance |
| 2007 |
Honorary Visiting Professorship, Renmin University, Beijing – £7,000 travel and subsistence grant, Department of Personnel, Renmin University |
| 2008-2010 |
Member of successful York PRDU-Cowie-CMI consortium bid to work as a preferred partner with the Department for International Development (thus far this has involved one project supporting DFID’s new country strategy for Afghanistan – £140,000) |
| 2009-2012 |
‘Social Cohesion in the WANA Region’ (US$240,000) with Professor Sultan Barakat, York; Professor Juho Saari, University of Eastern Finland and Professor Olli Kangas, Head of Research Department, Social Insurance Institution of Finland |
| 2009-2013 |
Bid member Australian Centre for Excellence in Local Government, Convenor of Executive Leadership Program |