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Tackling hate crime in Los Angeles

22 September 2016

University team awarded over $800,000 by the US Department of Justice to develop real-time predictions of hate crime using Twitter

Ruth Milkman

A New Political Generation

19 September 2016

Professor Ruth Milkman returns to Cardiff to deliver lecture on A New Political Generation: Millennial-Led Social Movements in the 21st Century USA

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Improving safety at sea

14 September 2016

Concerns over the safety of life-saving appliances could put seafarers at increased risk

Landmark study on global container port health and safety

9 September 2016

Cardiff research points to way ahead in improving health, safety and welfare of workers

Refugee Crisis

The Current Migration Crisis in Europe

24 August 2016

Timely symposium addresses Europe’s refugee crisis in UK context

Cover of Are We All Scientific Experts Now by Harry Collins

Are we all scientific experts now?

15 August 2016

Professor Harry Collins sparks debate on US university campus

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2016 student satisfaction scores

12 August 2016

High rating from our students in the National Student Survey

Postgraduates

Preparing the next generation of leading social science researchers

11 August 2016

Cardiff successful in bid for new ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP)

Speakers at the Quantitative Research Workshop

In Conversation with Hout, Grusky and Snipp

18 July 2016

A Quantitative Research Workshop on Poverty, Inequality and Big Data

Staff and students from the MSc Skills and Workforce Development in Singapore

Singapore-based Master’s celebrates successful second year

14 July 2016

Excellent feedback from the first MSc Skills and Workforce Development cohort encouraged 18 new recruits to join the course in 2016.

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Welsh are Masters in Educational Practice

12 July 2016

Graduation day for first cohort from Masters in Educational Practice

Welsh Baccalaureate Conference

Welsh Baccalaureate Teacher Conference

7 July 2016

Developing teachers’ skills and confidence

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Prestigious panel appointment

6 July 2016

Cardiff Professor appointed Chair of ESRC Grant Assessment Panel

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Shipping: indispensable to the world

30 June 2016

We take a look at the valuable work of our Seafarers International Research Centre

Front cover of Our Changing Land

Our Changing Land

15 June 2016

New publication revisits gender, class and identity in contemporary Wales

Improving children's chances

13 June 2016

What makes good social work practice? Professor Donald Forrester in conversation with Isabelle Trowler

Domestic violence report

Impact on Policy Award

1 June 2016

Tackling violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence in Wales

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Criminology at Cardiff ranked in UK top ten

24 May 2016

Our undergraduate Criminology course has been ranked in the UK’s top ten in the latest Guardian university league tables

Illustration by Ella Furness

Illustrating inequalities

23 May 2016

How PhD student Ella Furness illustrates social research

The People’s Platform

The People’s Platform

20 May 2016

Unique policy dialogue through live theatre performance