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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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Profiles
Nicholas Abercrombie
- Department of Social & Policy Sciences - Professor (Visiting)
Person: Honorary / Visiting Staff
Projects 1993 2025
Humanitarianism as a Social Movement: Activism, Aid and The European Refugee Crisis
1/03/19 → 1/03/21
Project: Research-related funding › Individual grant
Research Output 1978 2019
Atrributing Development Impact: The Qualitative Impact Protocol Case Book
Copestake, J., 2019Research output: Book/Report › Book
Beyond the Rights-Bearing EU Mobile Citizen: Governing Inequality and Privilege in European Union Social Security
Carmel, E., Sojka, B. & Papiez, K., 2019, Boundaries of European Social Citizenship. Amelina, A., Carmel, E., Runfors, A. & Scheibelhofer, E. (eds.). London: RoutledgeResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Boundaries of European Social Citizenship: EU Citizens’ Transnational Social Security in Regulations, Discourses and Experiences
Carmel, E. (ed.), Amelina, A. (ed.), Runfors, A. (ed.) & Scheibelhofer, E. (ed.), 2019, London: Routledge.Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition
Datasets
Qualitative data for states of emergency: citizenship in crisis in Sierra Leone 2017
Enria, L. (Creator), University of Bath, 31 Jan 2019
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00596
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
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
Student theses
An investigation of parental responses to child experiences of trauma
Author: Williamson, V., 11 Jan 2017Supervisor: Halligan, S. (Supervisor), Creswell, C. (External person) (Supervisor) & Butler, I. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD
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Bereavement and Motivation in Three Contrasting Cultures: Britain, Japan and China
Author: Fang, C., 22 Nov 2018Supervisor: Valentine, C. (Supervisor) & Troyer, J. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD
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'Child trafficking': Experiences of separated children on the move
Author: Gearon, A., 19 Jun 2016Supervisor: Brown, S. (Supervisor) & Butler, I. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD
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