Project overview

CONFINED spans from 2025-2029 and is structured into three interconnected and carefully sequenced Work Packages (WPs):

  • WP1 conducts detailed ethnographic research into confined lives through mapping, life histories, and field observations.
  • WP2 compares the four case studies across confining institutions, the lived experience of confinement, and how individuals and families navigate these constraints—through infrastructures, languages, and social pathways.
  • WP3 formalizes and validates our findings through engagement with diverse commentators and stakeholders. It also introduces experimental elements by co-developing pilot projects with partners working in human rights and social justice.

Output and milestones

CONFINED has defined 7 milestones to ensure the project progresses (visible to the right of this page).

In addition, CONFINED will produce several research outputs. With the project’s conclusion, we will have produced the following output:

  • Four PhD dissertations

  • Four international conferences and meetings: Inception conference, Global Dimensions of Confinement, stakeholder dissemination, and Confined Lives (end-of project conference)

  • Article presentation at conferences depending on the relevant disciplines of team members

  • Fifteen co-authored and peer reviewed articles by project staff (twelve from WP1 and three from WP2). In line with ERC regulations, articles will be published open access

  • One special issue on Global Dimensions of Confined Lives

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