The Centre for Social Issues Research (CSI-R) is an interdisciplinary collaborative research group housed within the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Faculty of Education and Health Sciences. Our unifying aim is to promote theoretically informed and methodologically sound innovative social research that addresses contemporary social issues and informs social policy. The core feature of our work is an appreciation that all behaviour, educational, health, occupational and social actions are shaped by systems and structures as much as individual psychologies.
The group develops research ideas to address contemporary social issues, supporting collaborations between skilled researchers at all career stages and external agencies in a partnership approach. In this way, we seek to both produce high quality research that has impact, and support the development of the researchers who will help to produce this work.
We see ourselves as working in partnership with community, service and statutory sectors. Rather than having beneficiaries, therefore, we take an action-research orientation, best exemplified by the mantra ‘nothing about us without us’. This results in the research being informed, owned and used by our partners for their purposes as they see fit.
For our academic members, whether faculty, postdoctoral researchers, or PhD students, there is the opportunity to connect and collaborate with like-minded colleagues, gain support for your current and future research ideas, and hopefully collaborate with external partners as outlined above.
