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"This is an outstanding performance with the highest GPA score within the institution and among the highest rankings nationally across all aspects of 4*/3* research.
We are immensely proud of the inclusive culture, where the subject grew the number of people submitted to REF2021 by 36%.
The research unit is a national leader in outstanding or very considerable research impact and a world-leading or internationally excellent research environment."
How we did
Overall
An outstanding 92% of our research has been judged as world-leading or internationally excellent resulting in a top 8 in the UK for 3 and 4 star overall research activity.
Research Impact
100% of our impact case studies have been judged as having outstanding or very considerable impacts in terms of their reach and significance.
Environment
100% of our research environment has been judged as being conducive to producing research of world-leading and internationally excellent quality and enabling outstanding impact, in terms of its vitality and sustainability.
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Our Team
Name Role Birrell, D Professor Professor Bloomer, F Dr Senior Lecturer in Social Policy Braniff, M Dr Senior Lecturer Bunyan, S Dr Lecturer in Economics Byrne, J Dr Senior Lecturer Carmichael, P Professor Associate Dean (Global Engagement) Coyle, B Dr Lecturer in Criminology Duffy, D Dr Lecturer in Economics Gazzola, M Dr Lecturer in Public Policy and Administration Gilmartin, N Dr Lecturer in Sociology Gray, AM Professor Professor of Social Policy Heenan, D Professor Professor of Social Policy Horgan, G Ms Senior Lecturer in Social Policy Kelly, G Dr Lecturer Killick, C Dr Lecturer in Social Work Lasslett, K Professor Professor Lundy, P Professor Professor of Sociology Mac Giollabhui, S Dr Lecturer Marnoch, G Dr Reader in Public Policy McFadden, P Dr Senior Lecturer in Social Work McGinn, T Dr Lecturer in Social Work McGrattan, C Dr Lecturer Moore, L Dr Senior Lecturer Morrow, D Professor Professor Mullineux, J Dr Lecturer in Psychology O'Connor, K Dr Research Director - Social Work and Social Policy Offer, J Professor Professor of Social Theory & Policy Osmani, S Professor Professor of Developmental Economics Payne, B Dr Senior Lecturer Taylor, B Professor Professor of Social Work Tridimas, G Professor Professor of Political Economy
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"Our internationally excellent and world leading impact case studies at both the regional and international level
(i) directly contributed to reproductive rights policy and legislative reform and to the development of abortion services in Northern Ireland; (ii) directly led to changes to redress legislation in Northern Ireland’s Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry; and
(iii) produced ground-breaking data sets on the networks, institutional structures, commercial transaction chains, and human rights abuses used to organise/conceal grand corruption. Our research-led impact directly prepares students for the world they will graduate into.
We have developed an inclusive approach to research and a culture that prioritises academic development and academic excellence. We are a research unit that prides ourselves on our research-led teaching. The recent REF exercise judged 92% of our research to be internationally excellent or world-leading, eighth in the UK. Being educated in our School means being educated by the top researchers in the field."
Research Outputs
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- A Philosophy of Charity and the Debates over the English and Irish Poor Laws in the 1830s
- A Qualitative Study of the Perspectives of Domestic Violence Survivors on Behavior Change Programs With Perpetrators
- Abortion and Citizenship Rights in a Devolved Region of the UK
- Access and performance inequalities: post-primary education in Northern Ireland
- Alcohol consumption among university students: a typology of consumption to aid the tailoring of effective public health policy
- An economics approach to language policy and linguistic justice
- Between Scylla and Charybdis? Twenty-Five Years Administrating the Contested Region of Brussels
- Bureaucrats, Authoritarianism, and Role Conceptions
- Business cycle synchronisation in EMU: Can fiscal policy bring member-countries closer?
- Commemoration as Conflict: Space, Memory and Identity in Peace Processes
- Communicating risk in dementia care: Survey of health and social care professionals
- Community Ownership of Local Assets: conditions for sustainable success
- Concepts for communication about risk in dementia care: A review of the literature
- Conflict, democracy and voter choice: a public choice analysis of the Athenian ostracism
- Delivering Social Welfare: Governance and Service Provision in the UK
- Devolution and identity: Multidirectionality in ‘Welshness’ and ‘Northern Irishness’
- Explaining Self-Reported Resilience in Child-Protection Social Work : The Role of Organisational Factors, Demographic Information and Job Characteristics
- Exploring Barriers to Constructing Locally Based Peacebuilding Theory: The Case of Northern Ireland
- Extending the two‐process model of burnout in child protection workers: The role of resilience in mediating burnout via organizational factors of control, values, fairness, reward,workload, and community relationships
- Female Combatants After Armed Struggle: Lost In Transition?
- Fiscal policy, government size and EMU business cycle synchronization
- Foreign language skills and employment status of European natives: evidence from Germany, Italy and Spain
- From a Visible Spectacle to an Invisible Presence : The Working Culture of Covert Policing
- Herbert Spencer, Sociological Theory, and the Professions
- Heuristics in Professional Judgement: A Psycho-Social Rationality Mode
- Male IPV Perpetrator’s Perspectives on Intervention and Change: A Systematic Synthesis of Qualitative Studies
- Managing contested spaces: Public managers, obscured mechanisms and the legacy of the past in Northern Ireland
- Measuring Diversity in Multilingual Communication
- Models of Microcredit Delivery and Social Norm
- Multi-Level Governance and Northern Ireland
- Multilingual communication for whom? Language policy and fairness in the European Union
- Perception and Communication of Risk in Decision Making by Persons with Dementia
- Poverty and Vulnerability in Rural Bangladesh
- Professional Judgement about Reoffending: Factorial survey
- Public Administration in Contested Societies
- Public Policy, Philanthropy and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland
- Reconciliation and After in Northern Ireland: The Search for a Political Order in an Ethnically Divided Society
- Reimagining global abortion politics: A social justice perspective
- School Choice and Conflict Narratives: Representative Bureaucracy at the Street Level in East Jerusalem
- Shadow policing: the boundaries of community-based ‘policing’ in Northern Ireland
- Social Work Literature Searching: Current Issues With Databases and Online Search Engines
- Social Worker Well-being: A Large Mixed-Methods Study
- South Asia
- Stakeholders Perspectives on the Success Drivers in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme – Identifying Policy Translation Issues
- State Crime on the Margins of Empire: Rio Tinto, the War on Bougainville and Resistance to Mining
- State-Society Relations: Non-Governmental Organisations in Kazakhstan
- Survivor Perspectives on IPV Perpetrator Interventions: A Systematic Narrative Review
- The barbarism of indifference: Sabotage, resistance and state–corporate crime
- The Conservative Party and Ulster Unionism: A Case of Elective Affinity
- The Craft of Public Administration in Eurasia
- The Crimes of Urbanisation: Researching Corruption, Violence and Urban Conflict
- The Democratic Unionist Party: From Protest to Power
- The Economics of Schooling in a Divided Society: The Case for Shared Education
- The Evaluation of Language Regimes: Theory and application to multilingual patent organisations
- The failure of ancient Greek growth: : institutions, culture and energy cost
- The fall of an African president : How and why did the ANC unseat Thabo Mbeki?
- The Growth-Equity Nexus in Bangladesh: An Analysis of Recent Experience
- The Integration of Health and Social Care in the UK
- The Politics of Trauma and Peace-Building: Lessons from Northern Ireland
- The State at the Heart of Capitalism: Marxist Theory and Foucault’s Lectures on Governmentality
- The Stormont House Agreement and the New Politics of Storytelling in Northern Ireland
- The Ulster Unionist Party: Country before Party?
- Theory and Practice of Microcredit
- Transnational Organised Crime : A Comparative Analysis
- War, disenfranchisement and the fall of the ancient Athenian democracy
- ‘What the f**k Is Maturity?’ : Young Adulthood, Subjective Maturity and Desistance From Crime
- Without Women, The War Could Never Have Happened: : Representations of Women’s Military Contributions in Non-State Armed Groups
- Women's Imprisonment and the Case for Abolition: : Critical reflections on Corston ten years on
