{"id":2060,"date":"2018-10-12T16:16:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T15:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2019-01-23T13:29:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T13:29:19","slug":"school-of-english-receives-grant-worth-450000-to-investigate-organised-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2018\/10\/12\/school-of-english-receives-grant-worth-450000-to-investigate-organised-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"School of English receives grant worth \u00a3450,000 to investigate organised crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Caroline Rooney will join Dr Rapha\u00ebl Lef\u00e8vre (Oxford University) on a three-year project examining the impact of Transnational Organised Crime (TNOC)\u00a0emanating from deprived districts in Tripoli, Lebanon(<em>pictured above<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The grant, awarded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), will look at how three neighbourhoods in this part of the country\u00a0have become a haven for TNOC and\u00a0to uncover the conditions that have caused this to create terror-crime interactions.<\/p>\n<p>The project is entitled \u2018Islamo-Gangsterism:\u00a0An\u00a0Exploratory Study of the Embeddedness of the \u201cCrime-Terror Nexus\u201d in Three Neighbourhoods\u00a0of Tripoli (Lebanon)\u2019 and will begin in January 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Rooney was recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/kentlife\/18900\/professor-of-english-shortlisted-for-major-international-research-award\">shortlisted for The Health Humanities Medal for Best International Research Award by the Arts &amp; Humanities Research Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6>Text by Dan Worth<\/h6>\n<h6>Image: Tripoli in Lebanon, Dr Ghazi Omar Tadmouri<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Caroline Rooney will join Dr Rapha\u00ebl Lef\u00e8vre (Oxford University) on a three-year project examining the impact of Transnational Organised Crime (TNOC)\u00a0emanating from deprived districts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2018\/10\/12\/school-of-english-receives-grant-worth-450000-to-investigate-organised-crime\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53063,"featured_media":2061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178752,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2063,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions\/2063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}