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Environmental Social Science
National ratings
Research Assessment Exercise 2008:
Environmental Science: 55% of our research rated "world-leading" or "internationally excellent".
Social Policy: ranked 4th nationally for research quality, with 70% of the research rated "world-leading" or "internationally excellent".
Law: ranked 6th nationally for research quality, with 65% of the research rated "world-leading" or "internationally excellent".
Taught programme
Research programmes
The Environmental Social Science programmes are interdepartmental and benefit from expertise found across the Faculty of Social Sciences.
Social science perspectives are crucial to understanding and solving environmental problems. Human behaviour produces many elements of the ‘natural' environment, from landscapes to floods and famines. Local and national policies and international agreements regulate the environmental practices of corporations, governments and households. The social sciences have a great deal to contribute to understanding what have become defined as environmental issues, and what measures can most effectively tackle them.
The multidisciplinary Environmental Social Science programmes draw on the contributions of Anthropology, Conservation and Ecology, Law, Social Policy and Sociology. In each of these disciplines, Kent is very active in research, and the majority of research outputs were rated “internationally excellent” or better in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. The programmes therefore build upon a strong base.