CHILDCIPH proposes a two-year fellowship at the School of Arts and Communication (K3) at Malmö University, Sweden. The recent rise of illiberal, conservative and right-wing populist movements poses an acute threat to democracy and equality in Europe. One pervasive but underresearched strand of these movements advocates ‘traditional family values’, in particular conservative sexual and gender politics, in the name of protecting children. The project will fill this research gap through interdisciplinary research examining the discursive construction of the child as the ultimate site of vulnerability and risk, and hence in need of protection and policy intervention. The irrational, or affective component of such discourses calls for an approach capable of accounting for their emotive force or ‘grip’. This proposal aims to develop such an approach, combining insights and methodology from political discourse theory, media studies and psychosocial studies. The research is characterised by a significant comparative dimension, analysing discourses by conservative, ‘pro-traditional family values’ actors, from politicians to activists, in Germany and Russia. The project will generate 3 articles and will be presented at international conferences, through blog posts, public events, as well as policy recommendations. The host institution will benefit from an interdisciplinary project that operationalizes the role of emotions and affect in media research – an aim central to the work of the Rethinking Democracy research platform, while it will benefit my career trajectory by establishing me as an independent researcher with a unique and thorough expertise on the role of emotions and affect in analyzing processes of negative political mobilization, in particular in issues threatening gender equality and LGBT rights.

The baseline problem and needs analysis for the project ‘Learning from the Margins’ (LEMA) show that marginalised youth in European urban areas display low levels of inclusion and participation in the societal arenas that we know develop the individual and which can also contribute to bringing individuals out of marginalisation. At the same time, it is clear that on the professional level we are more or less checkmate compared to working with precisely the inclusion of the most marginalised young people. This is partly due to societal inequality structures, but it is also because the professionals are not yet trained in understanding the extent of the young people's situations, which are particularly complex in urban settings. By professionals we refer to all those working professionally with marginalised youth in urban areas and they encompass social workers, pedagogues, social educators and teachers. The lack of professionalism in this field is probably because until now it is not common practice to understand social and educational work as a matter of planning individual, social and contextual (including socio-spatial) solutions concerning young people at risk.The overall goal of the LEMA project is therefore to develop a sustainable pedagogical model for working with extremely marginalised youth – a model for Participatory Social Planning (PSP), which includes:•The development of a participatory context-sensitive social pedagogy for innovative solutions (cross-national)•A wider knowledge on the connection between an urban setting and the marginalisation processes of young people•Repertoires of practice for professionals, welfare officials, NGOs, policy makers, educators and researchers in relation to understanding, recognising and responding to the complex social problems that marginalised young people have to face.The participatory aspect will be crucial in that context-specific solutions must always take their point of departure in the parties involved. It is therefore significant that the marginalised young people are key partners in the development of new innovative solutions. They are, as it were, the real experts, and learning from their marginalised position is essential to the innovative solutions of this project. The target groups of the project are thus both youth at risk in urban areas and the professionals and educators working with them. Thus, the project partners are higher education institutions and organisations working with marginalised youth in three different urban contexts: University College Copenhagen and 3B Housing Association in Copenhagen, Denmark; Malmö University and Malmö City in Sweden; University of Malaga and the NGO Asociacion Marroqui in Malaga, Spain. The partners all share a mutual interest in connecting social work and participatory design concerning at-risk youth in urban settings. At the same time, their common interest is in the transferability of actions research methods and values to social work and professional development. In order to change the realities of the marginalised youth and thereby the structures of inequality, the professionals need profound new knowledge and repertoires of practice. Both the field of research and the field of social practice have need of the international exchange of practice-based knowledge, research and the innovative spin-off from the different urban contexts to respond effectively to the challenges of inequality. The shared reality is that the local solutions are not sufficient in bringing young people at-risk out of marginalisation and a transnational innovative initiative is therefore necessary.The absolute social innovation of the LEMA project is to bring marginalised young people, professionals and researchers together in an analytical work that can create and develop a new international practice within pedagogy and social work. This will be composed in the Participatory Social Planning model (PSP). The model will enable professionals in working with overcoming marginalisation of youth in urban areas. At the same time, the new approach of this model will be implemented locally in the organisations of the participating partners. Additionally, the impact of the LEMA project is directly transferable and complementary to the everyday work in both HEI and in the kinds of organisations represented by the participating partners.

The significance of migration as a social, political and broader public concern has intensified significantly. Migration is increasingly seen as a high-priority policy issue by many governments, politicians and throughout the world. As well as migration projections and scenarios that are essential for appropriate planning and effective policymaking, a deeper understanding of the root causes and drivers of migration and of their interrelation with people’s propensity to migrate is needed. Enhancing migration data is a crucial step to advance migration governance since better data is needed in order to accomplish sustainable social and economic development and national migrant data strategies are required to inform good policies. The project’s overall objective is to improve understandings of changing nature of migration flows and the drivers of migration, to analyse patterns, motivations and new geographies. Moreover, HumMingBird aims to calculate population estimates and determine emerging trends and future trends and accordingly to identify possible future implications of today’s policy decisions. Correspondingly, migration scenarios will be developed in a more forward looking manner that takes into account both quantitative and qualitative perspectives of different migration actors that might have an impact people’s decisions to migrate and consequent trends that will have an impact on our societies. Global scenarios will base on not only a realistic understanding of the drivers and dynamics of migration but also on the effects and effectiveness of past migration policies. Projects ambitions are to identify the uncertainties and reappraise, to explore the reasons why migration predictions may not hold and to demonstrate non-traditional data sources for migration research.

Cancer treatment outcomes vary widely due to inequalities in access to tests, drugs and the need for regular visits to specialist clinics. Many limitations can be addressed by developing more sensitive and robust tests for underexploited cancer biomarkers that can detect cancer sooner, be deployed in local clinics and simplify sample shipment and storage. Such tests will improve health outcomes, and also reduce the substantial environmental impact of biological reagent manufacture and patient travel. MIPrecise is an innovative and integrative network for training of doctoral candidates (DCs) that aims to address these challenges by re-engineering the diagnostic development and delivery pipeline through use of inexpensive, highly stable imprinted polymers. Training a new generation of doctoral scientists in methods that can develop and transition the novel diagnostic and monitoring platforms is crucial, for sustainable development and future impact for cancer patients. Through four work packages MIPrecise will make progress related to the following cancer relevant topics: - Assays for guiding personalized therapies based on kinase inhibitors - Robust assays and home based sampling for small cell lung cancer - Discovery of new biomarkers for more precise cancer diagnostics - Fast and sensitive liquid biopsies for assessment of tumour aggresiveness The project will give 13 DCs a first-class interdisciplinary and intersectorial training program that combines scientific excellence with important transferable, business and entrepreneurial skills. This meets needs for highly skilled researchers supporting a competitive MedTech sector in Europe. 12 leading groups in the field of molecular imprinting, smart materials, proteomics, single cell analysis and clinical diagnostics at 8 universities, 1 research institute and 3 companies will form an inter-disciplinary expert network to develop disruptive greener technologies to address inequalities in cancer care.