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We demonstrate excellence in teaching and learning and produce highly employable and adaptable graduates and postgraduates.
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Psychology
Have you got an enquiring mind? Would you like to discover new ways of understanding yourself and contemporary social issues?
Criminology
Our courses offer the latest theories and approaches to crime, its prevention and consequences.
Sociology
How do societies adapt in our ever-changing world? Sociology examines traditional and contemporary concerns such as gender, ethnicity, environmentalism and pleasure.
Other social sciences
We also offer degree programmes in social policy, politics, social science and health and social care.
Counselling, psychotherapy, social work
We equip our graduates with the knowledge and skills to practice counselling, psychotherapy and social work. We also offer professional development opportunities for practitioners.
News and events
- Looking upwards: towards a cosmic sociology
27.01.10
Two of our lecturers have for five years been urging sociologists to look upwards towards the cosmos. Now, with a new website, they are encouraging visitors to make their own contribution to debates over how the cosmos should be understood and used. Find out more... - SSPARC researchers present paper at Yale University
25.01.10
Researchers Rose Smith and Lizzie Ward presented a paper at the Society for Medical Anthropology International Conference at Yale University in September 2009. Their paper entitled Contesting Knowledge, Responsibility and Care: recognising or colonizing lay care? was part of a panel exploring current shifts in the moral economy of care in health systems and drew on a number of research projects undertaken in SSPARC. - Lecturer chosen as first chair of higher education substance misuse association
08.01.10
Congratulations to Daren Britt who has been elected as the first Chair of the Association of Higher Education Programmes in Substance Misuse. Find out more... - Welcome to our new staff members
08.12.09
The school is pleased to welcome several new members of teaching staff to its sociology, criminology and counselling subject areas. Find out more... - Professor Phil Haynes to speak at international conference in Taiwan
02.10.09
Phil Haynes, head of the School of Applied Social Science, will deliver a lecture at an international conference hosted by the National Chi Nan University, Taiwan. The conference will be held on Wednesday 14 October and is entitled 'The impact of the financial crisis on social policy and social work'. Find out more... - Noted criminologist joins faculty
26.08.09
We are very pleased to report that eminent criminologist John Lea is to join the School of Applied Social Science as a Visiting Professor. His expertise will add to our teaching programme in areas such as organised crime and terrorism. Find out more... 
New publication on subversive citizens
26.08.09
Professor Marian Barnes' new book on the ways in which public services staff and users can seek to subvert official policy objectives has been published by The Policy Press. Find out more...- Congratulations to our prize-winning undergraduates
30.07.09
Congratulations to our outstanding undergraduates who have won prizes in recognition of their high achievement during their course. Find out more...