Research
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Our research environment
Research focus
Much of our research is interdisciplinary and often focused on policy development or contemporary problem-orientation. Some of the key themes, which link staff across the departments, include:
- Conflict and security
- Environment and sustainability
- Poverty and social justice
- Childhood and youth
- Health and wellbeing
- Technology and the knowledge economy
Each of our departments has a set of core research clusters, groups or themes uniting the 160 academic staff within the Faculty.
- Economics
- Education
- Health
- Politics, Languages & International Studies
- Psychology
- Social & Policy Sciences
Research projects
In addition to our departmental research and interdisciplinary research projects, our Faculty also coordinate a range of Research Sandpits. These intense processes stimulate new research proposals across a diverse range of academic disciplines.
Research centres
- Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy (CASP)
- Centre for Death & Society (CDAS)
- Centre for Development Studies (CDS)
- Centre for the study of Education in an International Context (CEIC)
- Centre for Research in Education and the Environment (CREE)
What is Impact?
Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research Professor Jane Millar, Dr James Bilzon and Dr Chris Brace discuss the importance of impact to the University and their research.
