Projects per year
Organization profile
Organisation profile
The Department of Social & Policy Sciences is one of the leading centres for social sciences in the UK. We have an excellent reputation for cutting edge research and innovative teaching.
We have been ranked exceptionally in the following league tables:
- Ranked 3rd for social work in the Guardian University guide 2016
- Ranked 3rd for sociology in the Complete University Guide 2017
- In the top ten for social policy & administration in the Guardian University guide 2016
- Ranked 44th in the world Development Studies in the QS World University Rankings® by Subject 2016
- Ranked in the top 100 in the world for Social Policy in the QS World University Rankings® by Subject 2016
Our staff and students are involved in the study of the major challenges that we face as a society:
- poverty
- inequality
- disadvantage
- work and worklessness
- violence
- the welfare state
- community cohesion
- family life and parenting
- health, illness and death.
Our achievements have been recognised most recently by the award of the prestigious Queen's Anniversary Prize in 2011.
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poverty
Social Sciences
welfare
Social Sciences
death
Social Sciences
experience
Social Sciences
politics
Social Sciences
Sierra Leone
Social Sciences
economics
Social Sciences
governance
Social Sciences
Network
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Profiles
Nicholas Abercrombie
- Department of Social & Policy Sciences - Professor (Visiting)
Person: Honorary / Visiting Staff
Projects 1993 2025
GCRF - Mapping Opportunities for Improving the Environmental Sustainability of Artisanal Gold Mining in Sierra Leone
Maconachie, R., Kjeldsen, T. & Bryant, L.
1/11/18 → 31/07/19
Project: Other › Internally Funded Research
GCRF - Implementing Sustainable Social Work Interventions in Low and Middle Income Countries
1/11/18 → 30/06/19
Project: Other › Internally Funded Research
GCRF - New Policy Responses to Extreme Poverty in Bangladesh: What Difference Does it Make?
1/11/18 → 31/07/19
Project: Other › Internally Funded Research
Research Output 1978 2018
#SaloneDecides: Will new parties end Sierra Leone’s two-party dominance?
Enria, L. & Hitchen, J., 28 Feb 2018, African Arguments.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Open Access
Sierra Leone
election
1
Citations
Advancing health coverage of informal workers in three Latin American countries
Bernales-Baksai, P. & Solar-Hormazábal, O., 1 Jan 2018, (Accepted/In press) In : Social Policy and Administration.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
coverage
worker
health
Uruguay
Colombia
A framework for urban integration: the case of Buenos Aires
Deneulin, S., Lepore, E., Mitchell, A. & Suarez, A. L., 15 Feb 2018, Capability-Promoting Policies: Enhancing Individual and Social Development. Otto, H-U., Walker, M. & Ziegler, H. (eds.). Bristol, U. K.: Policy Press, p. 111-129Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
fragmentation
Latin America
Datasets
Impact assessment in complex contexts of rural livelihood transformations in Africa. Part 1- Longitudinal household income data
Copestake, J. (Creator), UK Data Service, 4 Feb 2016
Dataset
Understanding and responding to adults bereaved following a drug or alcohol-related death
Walter, J. (Creator), Valentine, C. (Creator), UK Data Service, 9 Dec 2015
Dataset
Impact assessment in complex contexts of rural livelihood transformations in Africa. Part 2- Interview data
Copestake, J. (Creator), UK Data Service, 4 Feb 2016
Dataset