Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy

Centres and groups

The Camões Centre for Portuguese Language and Culture

Providing the means to deepen the knowledge in language, culture, history, politics and Portuguese society.

The International Political Economy Research Group

International Political Economy research group focuses on the examination of contemporary socioeconomic and political dynamics of crisis and limitations of European and global order.

The Sciences of Ageing and the Culture of Youth, 1880 to the present day

The Sciences of Ageing and the Culture of Youth (SAACY) is a project funded by a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship. It will offer a conceptual framework with which to overcome cultural pessimism about ageing and influence policy change.

Urban Futures research group

Examining urban futures through a conceptual, analytical and methodological lens that questions what cities are and how they work.

Urbanisation, Rural Development and Social Transformations Research Group

A research group examining urban-rural development and its effect on the developing world.

Visual Embodied Methodologies Network

Creating spaces of knowledge-exchange and research excellence around visual, embodied and art-based methodologies within, across and beyond Social Sciences.

War Crimes Research Group

Conducting research and teaching on war crimes (broadly conceived) and war.

Wargaming Network

The Wargaming Network aims to advance the theory and application of wargaming as a method of inquiry and as a method of learning and teaching.

Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society

Transforming the scientific and practical understanding of wildfire through interdisciplinary research

The Critical European Studies Research Group

This interdisciplinary research group in the Department of European and International Studies re-examines key concepts in Europe through a shared lens of critical theory.