Research output per year
Research output per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
The School of Social Sciences at The University of Manchester, is home to nearly 3000 undergraduate students and over 300 postgraduate students (with a 35% international student population). We undertake internationally renowned, world-leading and theoretically-informed empirical research, addressing major issues of private and public concern, which is founded on a unique combination of six disciplines.
Research in the School of Social Sciences is known for being methodologically innovative and policy relevant. This translates into research expertise, excellence and impact on a truly global scale.
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Profiles
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3D Printing and Intellectual Property
Dinev, P., 2025, (In preparation) Hart Publishing .Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Care and treatment of adults lacking decision-making capacity
Allen, N., 2025, (Submitted) Principles of Medical Law. Laing, J. & McHale, J. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Care and treatment of those under 18
Allen, N., 2025, (Submitted) Principles of Medical Law. Laing, J. & McHale, J. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Debt Capital Markets: Law, Regulation and Policy
Bavoso, V., 6 Jan 2025, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 248 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Global Politics: A New Introduction
Edkins, J. (Editor), Zehfuss, M. (Editor) & Gregory, T. (Editor), 31 Jan 2025, (Accepted/In press) 4th ed. Abingdon: Routledge.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Financialised Cocoa Chains and Implications for Ghanaian Farmers’ Productivity, Income and Livelihoods
Van Huellen, S. (PI), Imai, K. (CoI) & Dutta, I. (CoI)
1/09/24 → 31/03/25
Project: Research
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How Dialogue Fractures: the Social Dynamics of Misinformation in the Digital Age
Popa-Wyatt, M. (PI), Batista-Navarro, R. T. (CoI) & Berskyte, J. (CoI)
1/08/24 → 31/07/25
Project: Research
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MCM: Making Change Meaningful for Prisoner-Survivors of Sexual Assault
Gadd, D. (PI), Turner, E. (PI), Varese, F. (PI) & Glynn, J. (PI)
2/04/24 → 31/10/26
Project: Research
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CURE : Classifying and Understanding Remedies in Comparative Labour Law
Koukiadaki, A. (PI)
1/03/24 → 28/02/29
Project: Research
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Rebuilding Trust in Public Discourse: The Good Speech Project
Popa-Wyatt, M. (PI)
1/08/23 → 31/07/25
Project: Research
Impacts
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AA (Court of Protection: Capacity To Consent To Sexual Practices) [2020] EWCOP 66
Neil Allen (Participant)
Impact: Awareness and understanding
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Administrative Justice and Asylum Appeals
Thomas, R. (Participant)
Impact: Legal impacts, Economic impacts, Political impacts, Societal impacts
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Affecting change of UK public health policy on vitamin D, sun exposure, skin cancer and vitamin D supplementation 2013-20
Webb, A. (Participant) & Rhodes, L. (Participant)
Impact: Society and culture, Health and wellbeing, Economic, Policy
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African States and Social Welfare in Africa
Maia Green (Participant)
Impact: Health impacts, Societal impacts, Legal impacts
Activities
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‘FOLK’ CULTURES IN EVERYDAY OBJECTS
Solovey, T. (Participant)
30 Nov 2025Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Participating in a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc › Research
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Cambridge University Press (Publisher)
Popa-Wyatt, M. (Assistant editor)
2025 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work › Research
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Keynote address
Edkins, J. (Speaker)
7 Nov 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
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Coding in public: recognising vulnerability as a barrier to reproducibility
Kasmire, J. (Speaker)
4 Nov 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
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Dispatches from the diaspora: HMP prison Thameside: London
Younge, G. (Speaker)
30 Sept 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Teaching
Datasets
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Life Story Interviews With Russian-Speaking Marriage Migrants in China
Barabantseva, E. (Creator), UK Data Service, 22 Jul 2021
https://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/854886/
Dataset
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Data & code for: The estimation of age and sex profiles for international migration amongst countries in the Asia-Pacific region
Shen, T. (Creator), Raymer, J. (Creator), Guan, Q. (Creator) & Wisniowski, A. (Creator), Open Science Framework, 2023
DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/GJ9FV, https://demo268.shinyapps.io/ASAP/
Dataset
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Membresía en asociaciones progresistas y de izquierda en América Latina (Membership in progressive and left-wing associations in Latin America )
Espinoza, F. (Creator), University of Manchester Figshare, 31 Oct 2023
DOI: 10.48420/25127747
Dataset
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Rerunning Patterns of Members of Legislative Assembly in India's State Elections, 1985-2018
Shrimankar, D. (Creator), UK Data Archive, 9 Mar 2021
Dataset
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Tissue Microfibril Comparison
Eckersley, A. (Owner), Mellody, K. T. (Contributor), Pilkington, S. (Contributor), Griffiths, C. (Contributor), Watson, R. (Supervisor), O’Cualain, R. (Data Collector), Baldock, C. (Contributor), Knight, D. (Data Collector) & Sherratt, M. (Supervisor), ProteomeXchange, 16 Feb 2018
DOI: 10.6019/PXD008450, https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/archive/projects/PXD008450 and one more link, https://proteomecentral.proteomexchange.org/cgi/GetDataset?ID=PXD008450 (show fewer)
Dataset
Prizes
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1+3 North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership Studentship
Werlen, A. (Recipient), Apr 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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1+3 North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership Studentship
Collar, A. (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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2010, 2014, 2016 and 2017: Sheffield Teaching Awards, shortlisted for Best Academic Advisor.
McGourlay, Claire (Recipient), 2010
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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2014 and 2012: Enterprise Award, Sheffield Student Union Awards.
McGourlay, Claire (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Press/Media
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Climate Action: Insignificant Contributions Matter
18/09/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs and social media
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Marxist Sociology Blog - Global Marxism: Decolonisation and Revolutionary Politics
17/09/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs and social media
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How at-home DNA testing kits let people skirt donor anonymity laws – and why they do it
17/09/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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Modern secondhand clothes are often considered ‘dirty’ but vintage garments aren’t – certain assumptions limit sustainable fashion
13/09/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs and social media
Student theses
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(En)gendering Change and Continuity in Chilean Social Policy: Actors, Ideas and Institutions
Staab, S. (Author), Annesley, B. (Supervisor) & Waylen, G. (Supervisor), 1 Aug 2014Student thesis: Phd
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âÂÂDown with the kidsâÂÂ? Reconceptualising the youth work relationship: How do professional relationships between male youth workers and young men involved in violence operate to promote desistance?
Harris, P. (Author), Spencer, J. (Supervisor) & Gadd, D. (Supervisor), 31 Dec 2018Student thesis: Phd
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A Bayesian Hierarchical Model to Estimate and Predict Child Labour in India
Kim, J. H. (Author), Olsen, W. (Supervisor) & Wiśniowski, A. (Supervisor), 31 Dec 2021Student thesis: Phd
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A Brave New Bolam?
Beswick, J. (Author), Brazier, M. (Supervisor) & Keywood, K. (Supervisor), 31 Dec 2012Student thesis: Phd
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A Case for Memory Enhancement: Ethical, Social, Legal, and Policy Implications for Enhancing the Memory
Muriithi, P. (Author), Stanton, C. (Supervisor) & Harris, J. (Supervisor), 1 Aug 2014Student thesis: Phd
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Equipment
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Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology
Rachel Fox (Platform Lead)
Faculty of HumanitiesFacility/equipment: Facility