Faculty of Social Sciences

Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences

General Introduction

Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences has its origins in the strong disciplinary-based research of the individual academic staff in the Faculty's constituent Schools and Centres, and incorporates research activity at the University's Canterbury, Wye, Brussels and Medway campuses.

This strong individual research base creates a broad range of research groups across the Faculty with both critical mass and high quality research performance in terms of external funding, PhD research and publications in international refereed journals and with major commercial presses (see below for links to further information).

In addition, from the activities and interests of these disciplinary research groups several multidisciplinary research themes can be identified. These themes include: social science aspects of energy use and security, biodiversity conservation and the environment, and workplace performance, with sustainability a common focus of this research in all cases. As a consequence, one of the Faculty's over-arching strategic priorities is to encourage further development of such multidisciplinary research activities among its various research groups.

Departmental Links to Research Information

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Last Updated: 15/07/2011