Government agency failure to publicise warnings on dangerous ecstasy pills undermines policies which claim to reduce harm through prohibition. Ecstasy pills Picture by Tanjila Ahmed. … Read more

Every Wednesday afternoon in February special guest speakers, including alumni will be sharing insights into their careers. Come along to find out what it’s like … Read more

Simon Cottee, a senior lecturer in Criminology in SSPSSR, interviewed 35 former Muslims in Britain and Canada as part of the first major sociological study … Read more

Dr Beth Breeze speaks to the BBC about some of the amazing web-based fundraising phenomina of 2014 including no make-up selfies, ice bucket challenge and Stephen Sutton’s … Read more

The results for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework have just been released and show the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research as one … Read more

We are delighted to announce that Allan Finn, one of the project advisors on Living in Fear (a big lottery funded project carried out by … Read more

The School’s undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Social Work have been endorsed by The College of Social Work (TCSW) as having met the social work professional … Read more

The Centre for Philanthropy, based in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, is researching the history of donations to our University since … Read more

Recent national media and politician’s rhetoric labelling benefit recipients as scroungers has started to erode some of the important gains made by the disability movement … Read more

Seminar by Professor Peter McGill, Co-Director of the Tizard centre. Play Seminar