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Innovative engagement project creates bridges to higher education

3 November 2016

A partnership between the University and St David's College has led to the development and delivery of sixth form courses in the social sciences while helping to train trainee teachers.

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Discussing 'home' on BBC Radio

2 November 2016

Dr Rachel Hurdley recently joined radio presenter Lauren Laverne on BBC Woman's Hour to discuss the meanings of ‘home’.

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Festival of Social Science

28 October 2016

Celebrating Cardiff University’s pioneering research in week-long event

Professor Ruth Milkman

Social movements explored in Ruth Milkman lecture

20 October 2016

Ruth Milkman, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, recently delivered a keynote lecture at the School of Social Sciences.

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Objects of Desire

14 October 2016

Sociology research fellow, Dr Rachel Hurdley recently acted as a consultant on a BBC Radio 4 series about people’s homes and belongings.

H A T E Keys

Tackling hate online

12 October 2016

Cardiff University experts join forces with Welsh Government to tackle cyberhate

Combatting crime and corruption in many of the world’s ports

11 October 2016

Seafarers routinely face threats of coercion and blackmail in many ports around the world, according to a major new project from the Seafarers International Research Centre.

Online Surveillance

Innovators test ways of building better public services

23 September 2016

Innovating better public services

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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