Both the Graduate School and HSS offer postgraduate bursaries each year advertised in The Guardian.
The School of Humanities and Social Sciences' core research function is to develop the research of its staff and centres, focusing on its research excellence. The intellectual agenda of the School is to intervene at international level in the development of the social sciences, cultural studies and media through publishing, research collaborations, creating grant funded projects and by mounting conferences and seminars of major significance. We promote a historicised, gendered and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the social sciences, cultural studies and media by foregrounding key themes: ethnicity, urban culture, consumption, gender and sexuality, globalisation, modernity and memory, science and technology, multimedia and popular music, and the creative industries and learning regeneration.
We also undertake research in applied contexts, exemplified by our longstanding collaborations with the Tavistock Centre and the Institute for Volunteering Research in postgraduate and research provision. The Centre for Institutional Studies successfully sustains a programme of policy and practice-oriented research through grants and commission from foundations and from Government and public agencies. Its team of researchers (full-time and part-time) offer a high level of expertise and experience in evaluating policies and projects and in contributing to community and organisation development. It has played a key role in evaluating urban regeneration progects in East London. The School's research is largely organised and energised through the work of its research institutes, centres and groups.
Further information about HSS research institutes, centres and groups.
Further information about staff research interests.
The School confirmed its reputation for internationally-rated research across a wide range of disciplines, with the publication of the results of the government's 2008 Research Assessment
Exercise (RAE). A significant percentage of research outputs were ranked as 'world-leading' in terms of originality, significance and rigour. According to the Times Higher Education Table of Excellence, UEL has jumped 28 places and is now rated among the top three modern (post-1992) universities in London for research, and in the top 10 modern universities in the UK. HSS confirmed its status as one of the UK's leading university departments for research in Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, with 20% of research in this area judged to be 'world-leading' and a further 60% internationally excellent, and a position of 7th from 47 in the national rankings. Sociology and Social Work also had 'world-leading' and established international research excellence, with UEL the top-ranked new university in UK Sociology. UEL is already highly regarded for innovative research across a wide range of fields, and its research has in recent years won international acclaim.
Click here for more information about the RAE 2008 results.
Click here for HSS Co-research blog.
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