Social justice research
While much of the school's work is rooted in theory, a large part of our research is also directed towards practice, and the development and critique of social policy and practice. Social and global inequalities require a diversity of method, and innovations are key to our research activities and can pose a range of ethical challenges.
Much of our research involves active engagement with practitioners and professionals, as well as service users and recipients. Our work cuts across criminal justice, social welfare, immigration and education spheres of public policy, and the delivery of services and sanctions by public, private and voluntary sector institutions. This aspect of our research is often, although not exclusively, based on empirical research with an explicit policy or practice focus. We often also work with activists and grass-roots organisations, as well as governmental and quasi-governmental organisations.
Within family law, influential and significant research is being conducted into policy around intimate relationships and the public care systems.
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Our academic staff: Olivia Hamlyn, Kojo Koram, Elena Loizidou, Daniel Monk, Renata Salecl.
