Category: employability

Four SSPSSR students recently finished working as volunteers with the Canterbury Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) and not only gained excellent workplace skills, but contributed to … Read more

Dr Marian Duggan discusses the issues surrounding the court case involving Ashers, the Christian-run bakery in Northern Ireland. Dr Duggan has written extensively on homophobia including … Read more

PSSRU is part of a three year European Commission funded project, Third Sector Impact (TSI), looking at the impact of the third sector in Europe – … Read more

The SSPSSR employability bulletin has now been changed to an all new SSPSSR employability blog. To receive the latest employability news, events and opportunities from … Read more

  The theme for the 2015 conference is: ‘Criminology: Voyages of Critical Discovery’. This reflects the spirit of Plymouth as a point of departure for … Read more

Social Policy at Kent appears in the latest Complete University Guide’s (CUG) top 10 subject tables. Social Policy, ranked 9th by the CUG, regularly receives excellent feedback and this year appears … Read more

A case study submitted to the Research Excellence Framework 2014 demonstrating the impact of the University’s research. Kent’s REF2014 success. Picture by University of Kent. … Read more

PhD studentship on improving public services for vulnerable people using ‘big data’ methods. The Data Research Centre for Business and Local Government (DRCBLG) has been … Read more

We are pleased to be able to announce an extension to the 50th Anniversary Scholarship deadline. PhD degree programmes eligible for the scholarship are: Applied Psychology … Read more

Our School has contributed to a record number of places for Stage 1 students on the 2014/15 VALUE programme. The VALUE programme is an initiative … Read more