Research

We are proud to have one of the largest collections of social scientists in the UK.

The School is committed to making a difference at local, national and international levels with impactful research that shapes policy and practice.

Our research is relevant, innovative and grounded in a range of methods and specialisms, enabling us to inform policymakers and influencers nationally and globally so our research has the power to change lives and shape futures.

Themes

Our departments, together with major research centres, and our participation in cross-disciplinary work in University-wide research institutes, delivers ground-breaking research under three key research themes:

Global challenges

We research poverty, health and wellbeing, economic growth and responsible consumption.

Inequalities, justice and representation

Research strengths in ageing, class, gender, ethnicity, citizenship and human rights.

Innovative methods

We have centres dedicated to anthropology and quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Departments

Our research is organised into eight departments:

We also work with/in groups that promote policy and change, such as Movements@Manchester, Policy@Manchester and Methods@Manchester.

Research projects

Explore our range of research projects.

Publications

Browse our research outputs and publications.

Brutalism as Found: Housing, Form, and Crisis at Robin Hood Gardens

Nicholas Thoburn

Robin Hood Gardens was designed as an ethical and aesthetic encounter with the flux and crises of the social world. Now demolished, this Brutalist estate has been much disputed. But the clichéd debates marginalise the estate's residents and obscure its architectural originality. Thoburn centres the estate's lived experience of a multiracial working class, not to displace the architecture's sensory qualities of matter and form, but to radicalise them for our present.

Published December 2022

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