Description

CIVIC AND POLITICAL STUDIES

• Political science as disciplinary practice
• Investigating public policy
• Law as a social science
• Criminology as social science
• Public health
• Social sciences in the service of social policy: risks and rewards
• Social transformations: structure and agency in social dynamics
• Accounting for the dynamics of citizenship, participation and inclusion
• Trust, social capital, social cohesion and social welfare
• Politics in, and of, the social sciences
• Interdisciplinary perspectives on politics, public policy, governance, citizenship and nationality
• Security and insecurity, conflict and cohesion, war and peace, terror and anti-terror
• The neo-liberal state and its critics
• Policy measures: assessing social need and social effectiveness

SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY STUDIES

• Sociology: concepts and practices
• Geographical perspectives on spaces and flows
• What are the behavioral sciences?
• Psychology of the social
• Where mind meets world: cognitive science as interdisciplinary practice
• Economics as social science
• Sociology and history: the dynamics of synchrony and diachrony
• Philosophy’s place in the social sciences
• Social welfare studies as interdisciplinary practice
• Health in community
• Horizons of interest: agenda setting in the social sciences
• Research and knowledge in action: the applied social sciences
• Social sciences for the professions
• Social sciences for social welfare
• Accounting for inequalities: poverty and exclusion
• Social breakdown: dysfunction, crime, conflict, violence
• Social sciences addressing social crisis points
• Technologies in and for the social
• Economics, politics and their social effects: investment, ownership, risk, productivity, competition, regulation and deregulation, public accountability, stakeholders, trust, worklife, resource distribution, consumption, wellbeing, living standards
• Commonalities, differences and relationships between the social and the natural sciences: research methodologies, professional practices and ethical positions
• Research methodologies involving ‘human subjects’
• The social sciences in the applied sciences and professions: engineering, architecture, planning, computing, tourism, law, health