Spotlight on Social Sciences Research
The College of Social Sciences brings together staff with a wide range of research interests and perspectives on the world around us.
The examples below -- some completed research projects, others currently underway -- all have one thing in common: the opportunity to make a difference to people's lives by improving our knowledge of human interactions and society.
Our goal is to produce excellent and world-changing research; locally, nationally, and internationally.
- Confucius Institute: New partnerships in China
- Crime and Justice: Making the Commonwealth Games safe
- Does Religious Education Work?
- The effect of new gambling technologies on society
- Crime and Justice: Trade in cultural artefacts
- Changing attitudes to risk and resilience
- Universities and their cities and regions
- Sharing expertise to promote human rights
- Improving health and wellbeing: Seeing the whole person
- Financial reporting: New ways to do business
- Learning the global economic lessons of the past