200 years of Social Sciences at Nottingham

Concerned with how the world works, social science is, in its broadest sense, the study of […]

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Tags: Faculty of Social Sciences, social sciences

Relaunched China Policy Institute goes from strength to strength

The China Policy Institute (CPI) at The University of Nottingham has a new home and a […]

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Tags: China, China Policy Institute, Chun-yi Lee, Faculty of Social Sciences, Jonathan Sullivan, School of Politics and International Relations, social sciences, Todd Landman

Changes to Contemporary Chinese Studies

Following a review of the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies (SCCS) as part of the integrated […]

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Nominate an ESRC Impact Leader

This is the second call for nominations to The University of Nottingham’s ESRC Impact Leaders Programme […]

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ESRC IAA Impact Accelerator Fund

The Impact Accelerator Fund is open to applications from all social science researchers across all faculties […]

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Changes in the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies

The University is proposing changes to the way in which research and teaching on contemporary China […]

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Tags: China Policy Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, social sciences, structure, Todd Landman

Norms, values and morality: the comparative politics of human rights

Please join the Research Priority Area in Rights and Justice at The University of Nottingham for a special lecture by Professor Todd Landman, a world-leading expert on human rights. He will discuss the evolution of the international human rights regime, different kinds of human rights measures, and systematic ways in which to map, explain, and understand the variation in human rights abuse around the world.

Tags: human rights, Research Priority Area, Rights and Justice, RPA, School of Politics and International Relations, social sciences, Todd Landman

Are you writing for The Conversation yet?

155 academics, researchers and PhD students from the University have already written 285 articles for The Conversation, […]

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Tags: arts, humanities, journalism, Laura Hood, media, press, social sciences, The Conversation

ESRC Doctoral Training Centre open afternoon

Interested in Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded postgraduate opportunities to start in September/October 2016? Come along and find out more about who the ESRC DTC are, what they do, and the studentships on offer.

Tags: Doctoral Training Programmes, DTC, ESRC, ESRC DTC, PhD, postgraduate, social sciences

Nottingham-Shire: a voice for education

One-day workshop focussing on education, featuring keynote speaker Hilary Wainwright, author of Reclaim the State: Experiments in Popular Democracy.

Tags: education, ESRC, Festival of Social Sciences, Hilary Wainwright, Horizon Digital Economy Research, social sciences