School of Social Sciences
The School of Social Sciences is recognised nationally and internationally for our theoretically informed and applied research. We foster a culture that values the diversity of all our communities and publicises and celebrates excellence in all we do.
We create vibrant and inclusive learning and teaching environment grounded in scholarship, research, and professional practice.
Through our strategic partnerships, we influence and shape civic, cultural, and social life. We maximise the employability of our students through our curriculum and engagement with our external partners.
Latest News
NTU Psychology staff donate over 500 books to the University of Jos following library fire
Wed 28 Apr 2021
NTU Psychology members donated 540 books to the University of Jos in Nigeria, following a fire outbreak that consumed their library in 2016.
Distrust and confusion stopping immigrants detained in UK Immigration Removal Centres from seeking healthcare
Wed 21 Apr 2021
Experiences of female skateboarders to be explored in new research project
Wed 14 Apr 2021
Study investigating the roles of animals in educational settings to enhance learning and wellbeing
Mon 29 Mar 2021
Interactive images could cut errors in facial recognition, study suggests
Wed 24 Mar 2021
Our Research Groups and Centres
Centre for Behavioural Research Methods
Centre for Behavioural Research Methods
The Centre for Behavioural Research Methods (CBRM) is an interdisciplinary hub for nurturing, developing and sharing the theory and practice of social science research methods.
Gender Research Group
Gender Research Group
The Gender Research Group’s aim is to promote social and democratic inclusion and transformation at global, national and local levels through critical examination of the myriad ways gender matters in shaping people’s identities, experiences and opportunities.
The Identity Change Research Group
The Identity Change Research Group
The Identity Change Research Group is focusing on the developments in Identity Process Theory and applying the theory to emerging societal challenges.
Identity, Territory and Social Justice
Identity, Territory and Social Justice
Driven by a commitment to social justice, members of ITSJ engage in research that seeks to explore and problematise the socio-political phenomena shaping peoples’ lives, with a particular interest in questions of identity and territory broadly construed.
Centre for Crime, Offending, Prevention and Engagement (COPE)
Centre for Crime, Offending, Prevention and Engagement (COPE)
The Centre for Crime and Offending Prevention and Engagement (COPE) contributes to the understanding of victimisation risk and crime harm, the transformation agenda for change in the Criminal Justice System, and community engagement with crime prevention.
Nottingham Centre for Children, Young People and Families
Nottingham Centre for Children, Young People and Families
NCCYPF is a specialist, interdisciplinary research centre with members from across Social Sciences and beyond. Dedicated to improving the lives of children, young people and families, we conduct real-world, collaborative and impactful research using novel approaches, ideas and theories.
Centre for Public and Psychosocial Health
Centre for Public and Psychosocial Health
This Research Centre brings together a wide range of research excellence in Social Science, including in Public and Population Health, Health and Wellbeing and Employment and Wellbeing. This breadth of research spans clinical (lymphoedema) and non-clinical areas (sleep, wellbeing, social identities, trauma, health promotion/prevention) and is multi-disciplinary, for example taking sociological and psychosocial approaches to health.
Our latest publications
Transition to adult care: exploring factors associated with transition readiness among adolescents and young people in adolescent ART clinics in Uganda
Community identification, social support, and loneliness: the benefits of social identification for personal well‐being
Fear of COVID-19 and workplace phobia among Pakistani doctors: a survey study
The interaction of gambling outcome and gambling harm-minimisation strategies for electronic gambling: the efficacy of computer generated self-appraisal messaging
A social prescribing teaching resource
The Paleolithic imagination: nature, race, and science in Anthropocene fitness cultures
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