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.
Fingerprint The fingerprint is based on mining the text of the scientific documents related to the associated persons. Based on that an index of weighted terms is created, which defines the key subjects of research unit
measurement method
Social Sciences
Great Britain
Social Sciences
people
Social Sciences
child
Social Sciences
poverty
Social Sciences
family
Social Sciences
development
Social Sciences
research
Social Sciences
Network
Recent external collaboration on country level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots.
Profiles
Nicholas Abercrombie
- Department of Social & Policy Sciences - Honorary/Visiting Staff
Person: Honorary / Visiting Staff
Projects 1993 2022
Country expert / partner - Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) “Global Dynamics of Social Policy”
1/04/18 → 1/04/22
Project: Research-related funding › Research
Couples balancing work, money and care: exploring the shifting landscape under Universal Credit (with Fran Bennett Univ of Oxford)
Millar, J., Griffiths, R. & Wood, M.
14/03/18 → 13/03/21
Project: Research council
Facilitating and supporting creativity and innovation in the Unified Social Assistance System
1/03/18 → 28/06/19
Project: Research-related funding › International Collaboration
Research Output 1978 2018
#SaloneDecides: Will new parties end Sierra Leone’s two-party dominance?
Enria, L. & Hitchen, J. 2018 African ArgumentsResearch output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Open Access
Sierra Leone
party
dominance
election
A human rights approach to advocacy for people with dementia: A review of current provision in England and Wales
Dixon, J., Laing, J. & Valentine, C. 17 Apr 2018 In : Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice. 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
Wales
dementia
England
Dementia
Disabled Persons
Angels
Arnold, J. C. & Walter, J. 2018 The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying. Christopher, M. (ed.). Abingdon: Routledge, p. 352-361 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Datasets
Impact assessment in complex contexts of rural livelihood transformations in Africa. Part 1- Longitudinal household income data
Copestake, J., UK Data Service, 4 Feb 2016
Dataset
Impact assessment in complex contexts of rural livelihood transformations in Africa. Part 2- Interview data
Copestake, J., UK Data Service, 4 Feb 2016
Dataset
Understanding and responding to adults bereaved following a drug or alcohol-related death
Walter, J., Valentine, C., UK Data Service, 9 Dec 2015
Dataset