; Meet our SSPP research grant winners 29 September 2020 Society The Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy is home to a dynamic research culture that seeks to improve our understanding of some of the major social, political, ethical and environmental challenges facing our world. Here you can meet some of the researchers leading new externally-funded research taking place across our faculty. Artist Jenny Leonard also created this live sketch note of our recent SSPP Grant Winners Celebration at which researchers from across the faculty came together to share their grant applications experiences. In this story Faith Taylor Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography Tiffany Fairey Senior Research Fellow Cathy McIlwaine Vice Dean (Research), Faculty of Social Sciences and Public Policy David Green Professor of Historical Geography Maren Elfert Senior Lecturer in International Education Society
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