The SSPSSR Staff-Student Research seminar on 17 October 2019 will be delivered by Dr Kari Lancaster of UNSW Australia on ‘evidence making interventions’. Dr Lancaster’s presentation … Read more
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Social policy is a field of study rather than a discipline
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Communicating Effectively with Vulnerable Children and Young People Due to the current COVID-19 crisis, we have arranged to run our free 4-week MOOC (Massive Online … Read more
Can flexible working help reduce the gender pay gap?
Dr Hejung Chung, Reader in Sociology and Social Policy and Principal Investigator at the Work Autonomy, Flexibility and Work Life Balance (WAF) project has published … Read more
Do you want to study child protection in a different and more effective way?
Here you will find highlights of the International Centre for Child Protection’s MA in advanced child protection Look what they are saying about our MA: … Read more
Social historian researches lives of first women JPs
Dr Anne Logan, Reader in Social Science, wrote the introduction and did much of the research for the latest update to the Oxford Dictionary of … Read more
Forget ‘Obamageddon’, ‘Prepping’ is now part of mainstream American politics and culture
Long considered an extreme reaction to fears of Armageddon and imminent nuclear disaster, ‘preppers’ in the US have traditionally been portrayed as motivated by extreme … Read more
Keep Safe: a CBT based intervention for young people with IDD
Aida Malovic, a joint Tizard-CHSS University of Kent PhD student presented her poster as part of the WCBCT July 2019 Congress (World Congress of Behavioural … Read more
Tourettes; what is it really like to live with the condition
The pop star Billie Eilish recently talked about her experience of having Tourette’s syndrome and the barriers she faced. A recent study by Dr Melina … Read more
Free Public Lecture New Initiatives for Tackling Youth Radicalisation and Violent Extremism
The International Centre for Child Protection, University of Kent, Canterbury, will be holding a public lecture entitled: New Initiatives for Tackling Youth Radicalisation and Violent Extremism … Read more