- New Frontiers for Time Use Research (2019-2021) (ESRC grant) funded the development of innovative time use data collection methods and of improvements to the MTUS, including development of the MTUS-X in IPUMS, as well as projects on time-diary-based national accounts
- Collecting New Time Use Resources (2014-2019) - Over this 5-year ESRC-funded Centre Grant project CTUR core members published 40 peer-reviewed papers or chapters (including journals such as Review of Income and Wealth, Social Forces, Sociology, European Sociological Review, Plos1 and Nature), as well as collecting the UK Time Use Survey of 2014/15 (grant ES/L011662/1)
- Social Change and Everyday Life (2014-2019) This large 3-year ERC-funded project had 10 sub-projects, falling into three groups of studies: micro, macro and theoretical, which, collectively, model the activity sequences that constitute everyday life (ERC grant number 339703)
- Developing the Centre for Time Use Research (2008-2014) – This 5-year ESRC grant funded core CTUR data, methodological and substantive activities, developing from the previous Daily Life and Social Change grant (grant RES-060-25-0037)
- Daily Life and Social Change (2003-2008) was a wide-ranging project, funded by the ESRC, that developed a large number of substantive and methodological research topics related to time use (grants RES-000-23-TO704 and RES-000-23-TO704-A).
- Time Allocation Among Couples - developed a data set using paired time use diaries from both partners in couples from the United Kingdom, and analysed how couples interacted and allocated household tasks.
- Breastfeeding and Time Use - This project examined the effects of breastfeeding and time use, not only on children, but also on mothers and employers.