Following the success of The Student Success (EDI) Project, which won a Times Higher Education award for outstanding student support in November 2017, the team … Read more
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Report highlights ongoing human rights violations in European mental health systems
Research carried out by the Tizard Centre in conjunction with Mental Health Europe highlights ongoing human rights violations and charts possible future changes in European … Read more
Professor appointed adviser to Women and Equalities Committee
Professor Sarah Vickerstaff has been appointed by the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee as a Specialist Adviser to its inquiry into older people … Read more
Exploring fundraising
For her first speaking engagements of 2018, Dr Beth Breeze will be at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London, on 15 January … Read more
Uncovering Social Life
In an era characterised by rapid change, the disappearance of traditional communities, the rise of political populism and the threat posed by radical religious movements, … Read more
Beth Breeze highlights a decade of increased major giving
The 2017 Coutts’ Million Pound Donors report, co-authored by Dr Beth Breeze, Director of the Centre for Philanthropy, shows that there has been a boom … Read more
Sociologist wins a national prize for innovation and excellence
Judges in the annual SAGE Prize for Innovation/Excellence awarded Dr Dawn Lyon first prize in the Sociological Research Online category for her article documenting the … Read more
New book offers perspective on multiracial families
In her new book, Multiracial Parents: Mixed Race Families, Generational Change, and the Future of Race, Miri Song considers how mixed-race parents identify with and … Read more
Leading Chinese Universities adopt ‘EMR’ developed by Joy Zhang
This week Tsinghua University has incorporated the Educational Module Resource (EMR) on the public engagement of science into their postgraduate module, Innovation and the Development … Read more
Life of pioneer penal reformer Margery Fry
A new book by Dr Anne Logan, Senior Lecturer in Social Science, entitled The Politics of Penal Reform: Margery Fry and the Howard League, celebrates … Read more