Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Award to establish a research cluster focusing on 'Ethnopolitics in a Globalized World' (£739,351).

Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for two-year research project entitled 'Between Kurds, Turkmens, and Arabs: Managing Kirkuk' (£29,473).

ESRC 'Impact Grant' to research 'British military intervention and ethical statecraft' (with Tim Dunne, Department of Politics, £39,000).

ESRC grant 'Cultures of Repression: the Legacy of Colonial Violence and State Repression in the Maghreb, and its effect on North African Diasporas in Europe' with Lise Storm, Martin Thomas and Gareth Stansfield (£227,000).

Member of Ramses project on “The non state actors of the Turkish-Greek Reconciliation Process since the 1970s” (2007) Ramses program on Memories of Conflict and Reconciliation: Non-State Actors and Dynamics, jointly organized by the French Institute for Anatolian Studies (IFEA) – Istanbul; Bogaziçi University, Istanbul; and the Ecole Française d'Athènes (EFA), Athens.

Member of ANR (Agence Nationale de la recherche) research project: ‘From cultural friction to armed confrontation; Levels, scales and modalities of conflict. Turkey, Iran, Pakistan’, coordinated by Gilles Dorronsoro, University of Paris I – Sorbonne (2006-2009)

”Outstanding Young Person of the Year 2007” in the category “Academic Leadership and Accomplishment” awarded by Junior Chamber International in Malta.

US$ 5,000 for a project entitled Violent Non-State Actors in Contemporary World Politics, Gulf Research Centre, Dubai, UAE.

Member of ESRC Seminar Grant award (led by Professor Stefan Wolff, Nottingham) to convene series on 'The EU and the Promotion and Stabilisation of Conflict Settlements'.