Research with impact
Our research evaluates and addresses both current and emerging societal challenges on a global scale.
Themes
Our research is focused on the following areas:
Our school engages with practitioners, policy-makers and public/commercial clients.
We contribute to the University’s ‘Addressing inequalities’ and ‘Ethical grand challenges’ signature programmes by bringing together conceptual, policy-oriented and co-produced research.
Global challenges research
Examples
- Culture class and participation
- Informing international employment policies for gender equality
- A TTIP-ping point for democracy
Featured 'inequalities' case studies
- Mind the Gap; Getting Women's Voices Into Policy Making
- Helping governments to help their poor
- Challenging myths about race, segregation and diversity
- Gender equality in politics and policy
- Informing international employment policies for gender equality
- Improving employment outcomes for ethnic minority groups
- Challenging policy debates on ethnic inequalities in health
Interdisciplinary research
Through targeted cross-discipline research, we continue to build capacity to deliver social impact through engagement with local and international partners.
This includes projects building on completed research such as our ongoing work on aircraft noise. Also, projects with the local and national government, such as our work on nudge interventions.
You can find a selection of our latest research with social impact.