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Academic Studies in Education tops the Russell Group table in National Student Survey

12 August 2015

The results of the 2015 National Student Survey (NSS) show that the School of Social Sciences has come joint first for Education, both in the sector and the Russell group.

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Detecting crime using social media

12 August 2015

‘World-leading’ predictive tools will be used by Met Police to monitor real-time crime events.

Abyd Quinn Aziz

Forging international links through University Erasmus programme

29 July 2015

Abyd Quinn Aziz, Lecturer at the School of Social Sciences, recently returned from an Erasmus trip to Austria.

Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data & Methods celebrates another successful annual conference

4 July 2015

The sixth Annual Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods Conference took place at Cardiff’s iconic Millennium Stadium at the end of June.

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Boosting health and wellbeing in Merthyr

1 July 2015

University teams up with communities in Merthyr Tydfil as part of flagship engagement project.

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Will Hutton to address Wales’ flagship social science conference

30 June 2015

Wales' largest social science conference is taking place at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium this week

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Alan Evans has services to Education honoured with OBE

18 June 2015

Alan Evans, a longstanding partner of the School of Social Sciences, has been awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

Successful start to the first year of the MSc Skills and Workforce Development

16 June 2015

The new MSc in Skills and Workforce Development, based in Singapore, welcomed its first cohort of students in April.

Graphic Moves

8 June 2015

Young Merthyr artists team up with Cardiff University to explore their relationships with their community

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Funding boost for the National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research

26 May 2015

Cardiff University, alongside partner universities Swansea and Bangor, has been awarded £2,249,927 to lead the National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research (NCPHWR), an all-Wales Research Centre.