Our research groups
In the School we undertake a wide range of research with staff working within and across the disciplines for Sociology, Cultural Studies, Social Psychology, Social and Public Policy, Public Management and Social Work.
Our research falls into five major research groupings:
Members of staff and research students are active in at least one of the research groupings. Each research group hosts regular seminar, welcomes visiting speakers, and provides the intellectual, collaborative and collegiate culture. This drives us to produce theoretically innovative research that is valued by the academic community, policy makers, managers, professionals, service providers and users.
Helping to put our research into practice in the real world, we also host two professional centres:
Each of these centres combines research-informed postgraduate teaching, consultancy and the training and education of practitioners.
We also host a charitable trust dedicated to the protection from abuse of adults and children with learning disabilities:
Our staff currently lead two University-wide initiatives:
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Children and childhood network. This network explores a wide variety of topics ranging from cultural, religious and lifestyle influences to the impact of social policy and economics on the family
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Science, Technology and Society. This priority group is concerned with the cultural framing of scientific debates, particularly climate change, synthetic biology and neuroscience
By bringing together staff around common interests and issues we are able to produce a stimulating academic environment. It's what makes us much more than simply the sum of our parts.