Research Grants
Kuwait Programme
The Kuwait Programme formerly ran Research Grants to support LSE colleagues to conduct time-sensitive and globally competitive policy relevant research on contemporary Kuwait pertaining to the Programme’s research themes.
We are no longer running research grants.
Estimating the Economic Impact of Alternative Wealth Distribution Policies in Kuwait
Principal Investigator: Professor Steffen Hertog, Department of Government, LSE.
Understanding the Changing Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Kuwait and the Gulf Region
Principal Investigator: Christian Siderius, The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE.
Towards an Equitable Transport System in Kuwait
Principal Investigator:Muhammad Adeel, LSE Cities.
The Impact of Women’s Political Participation on Kuwaiti Politics
Principal Invesitgator:Zeynep Kaya, LSE Middle East Centre.
Kuwait National Election Study
Principal Investigator:Courtney Freer, LSE Middle East Centre.
Asian Capital and the Rise of Smart Urbanism in Kuwait
Principal Investigator: Hyun Shin, LSE South East Asia Centre and Departmeny of Geography and Environment, LSE.
Sustaining Kuwait in Unsustainable Times
Principal Investigator:Deen Sharp, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE.
Public Preferences towards Policies to Address the Water-Energy-Nature Nexus in Kuwait
Principal Investigator:Susana Mourato, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE.
Learning from the Past to Build a Better Future: Supporting Urban Flood Resilience in Kuwait Through a Forensic Analysis of the 2018 Flash Floods
Principal Investigator:Swenja Surminski, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE.
Ecologies of Belonging and Exclusion: An Intersectional Analysis of Urban Citizenship in Kuwait City
Principal Investigator:Nazanin Shahrokni, Department of Gender Studies, LSE.
For submissions and all enquiries, please contact Mercedes Masters, Kuwait Programme Coordinator, at m.c.masters@lse.ac.uk.