{"id":102233,"date":"2026-06-06T11:39:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/?p=102233"},"modified":"2026-06-06T12:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:31:40","slug":"kerala-academics-in-european-research-councils-cross-country-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/kerala-academics-in-european-research-councils-cross-country-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala academics in European Research Council&#8217;s cross-country project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/kerala-academics-in-european-research-councils-cross-country-project\/untitled-design\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102234\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-102234\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1232\" height=\"694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1232px) 100vw, 1232px\" \/><\/a>We are thrilled to share that Dr Mathew A Varghese, School of International Relations and Politics, Mahatma Gandhi University and Dr Sunaina K, School of Behavioural Sciences, Kannur University have been appointed chief researchers and coordinators in India for the project titled &#8216;CRIMLIFE -Life-Course Trajectories to Crime Globally&#8217;. This international collaborative research is funded by the ERC with Rs. 1 crore. It runs for the period 2026-2030 and is led by Professor Sveinung Sandberg of University of Oslo.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides India, the project brings together research partners from Norway, the Czech Republic, T\u00fcrkiye, Nigeria and Colombia. It seeks to examine life-course trajectories linked to crime across diverse social and cultural contexts, combining comparative criminological research with life-story narratives.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The collaboration is a notable international recognition for the participating universities and for the growing global visibility of social science research from Kerala.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled to share that Dr Mathew A Varghese, School of International Relations and Politics, Mahatma Gandhi University and Dr Sunaina K, School of Behavioural Sciences, Kannur University have been appointed chief researchers and coordinators in India for the project titled &#8216;CRIMLIFE -Life-Course Trajectories to Crime Globally&#8217;. This international collaborative research is funded by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102236,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102233\/revisions\/102236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}