Research in the School of Social Sciences
Internationally recognised excellence
The School of Social Science encompasses a wide range of research, internationally and collaboratively, over the disciplines of Economics, International Politics, Psychology and Sociology. Since 2001 we have been awarded £7.2 million of new research funding on top of existing grants from the Research Councils, EU and Charities. Our school advises the UK government, international organisations on national and international matters and also advises the EU on many matters. It hosts the multi-nation European Social Survey (ESS) funded by the European Commission which is a survey of changing social attitudes and values across Europe and ICAR the Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees in the UK. We are widely publicised in prestigious journals, international conferences and in all forms of the media and news. We aim to be recognised internationally as the country’s leading provider of applied Social Sciences.
Economics - the department covers a wide-ranging but focused research programme, with an emphasis on rigorous economic and econometric modeling, but also a concern for practical applications in both private and public sectors. It is organised into six major groups:
- City Health Economics Centre
- Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy
- International and Macroeconomics
- Econometrics and Economic Theory
- History of Economic Thought and Heterodox Economics
- Financial Economics
International Politics - the department covers a wide range of themes in international relations including development and globalization, civil society and social movements, history and religion, global political economy, governance and international institutions.
Psychology - the department covers a wide range of applied and psychological research and is committed to research in cognition, developmental and social psychology. Research is organised around research themes and there are currently five research units with additional research centres:
- Autism Research Group
- Coaching Psychology Unit
- Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit
- Developmental Psychology Research
- Health Psychology Research
- Memory and Cognition Research
- Memory Research Unit
- Organisational Psychology Research
- The Behavioural Neuroendocrinology Research Unit
Sociology - the department has a strong and growing reputation for its globally orientated research as well as empirical research on the sociology of Britain. Its core research is organised in the City Institute for Social Research and is focused on the following groupings: criminology and criminal justice, gender, employment and class, globalization and social relations, media and communications, race, ethnicity and migration and social research methodology.
Key Research Centres in the Department of Sociology
- Centre for International Communications and Society
- Criminology Research Group
- Social Research Methodology Centre
- Communications and the City Group
- Centre on Race, Ethnicity and Migration
- Centre for Comparative Social Surveys
- Centre for Gender Research
For all research enquiries, business, commissioned research, consultancy and KTP’s please contact Andrea Tinson either by phone 020 7040 8501 or e-mail andrea.tinson.1@city.ac.uk
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