Social justice

• FGM-safeguarding and race inequality
  Improving policy responses to FGM-safeguarding and race inequality through co-produced knowledge.
• Research helps define and improve the management of ‘medical manslaughter’ cases
  Dr Oliver Quick is a recognised authority in Criminal Law and Medical Law, with a special interest in patient safety. His recent research has focused on how prosecutors and experts negotiate criminal law and process in these controversial cases.
• Bridging Gaps in primary healthcare for women with complex needs
  A co-produced intervention that not only successfully increased the number of women with complex needs accessing mainstream healthcare, but also empowered the women concerned to act as champions and advocates in their community.
• Delivering equality of support for parents with learning difficulties
  Without early and on-going support these families often face extremely complex difficulties resulting in concerns about neglect by omission – not knowing how to look after their children, rather than deliberate abuse.
• Taking action on mortality reviews of people with learning disabilities
  Bristol is now a leading institution for the study of mortality of people with learning disabilities, not only nationally but also internationally.
• Helping to enable children’s rights to citizenship
  Numerous children are in precarious life situations despite being born or having lived in the UK for years and being eligible for the secure status of citizenship.
• Creating inclusive care home environments for older LGBT+ people
  Sexual orientation as a social and cultural dimension to older people's lives is often obscured within health and social care policy and practice settings. This situation is even more problematic for older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) individuals.
• Putting mental health research into practice
  Charities might not be the first thing people think about when they hear the word ‘industry’. However, third sector and charitable companies like Second Step contribute tens of billions of pounds to the UK economy each year - Dr Myles-Jay Linton
• Mental Health and Personal Finance
  Research suggests that one in four people with mental health problems are in debt, while one in two people in debt have a mental health problem.
• Research leads to practical support for young people with continence problems
  Bladder and bowel problems are very common and can be affected by psychological issues and stressful life events in a child’s life. There is also strong evidence that bladder and bowel problems affect the mental health of children, young people and their parents.
• Generation Snowstorm – a Social Change Summer School as a mental health intervention
  Off The Record (OTR) Bristol is an innovative young people's mental health charity with a focus on engaging young people in service design and delivery. Over 2017-18 Dr Nathan Eisenstadt collaborated with OTR on a Knowledge Exchange project funded by Bristol's ESRC Impact Acceleration Account.
• Informal governance and achieving sustainability – the next steps for Bristol Pound
  Launched in 2012, the Bristol Pound (£B) is the UK’s largest local currency, operating in both digital and cash forms. It aims to create a more resilient and sustainable independent business sector in Bristol, and a fairer and more inclusive local economy by changing how individuals and organisations behave financially.
• How academia informs migration policy and data development
  The need to improve knowledge and understanding of migration data is now acknowledged globally to be essential for informing and challenging policies on migration and asylum and to encourage balanced debate.
• Reducing the Poverty Premium
  In 2016 the Personal Finance Research Centre measured for the first time how many current low-income households are actually affected by poverty premium, and by how much.
• Raising school attainment and informing parent choice
  The Welsh Government's abolition of school league tables in 2000 provided an opportunity to test whether such information is important to school performance.
• Improving implementation of human rights in Africa
  Bristol’s Human Rights Implementation Centre (HRIC), supported by ESRC funding, carried out a programme of research that provided new evidence on what affects the implementation of human rights law. This has helped to bring about improvements to policies and practices in Africa to support the implementation of human rights law.
• Helping policy makers create an effective vaccination strategy for meningitis B
  Research by the University of Bristol supported the UK government’s decision to introduce a new vaccine for UK infants that has led to a 75% reduction in cases.
• Building the bridge: Muslim community engagement in Bristol
  Levels of personal debt and financial hardship are rising, leading many to resort to payday lenders. In a context of welfare retrenchment and increasing financial exclusion, faith organisations, including from minority faiths, are not just plugging the gaps, but setting out alternative and often innovative approaches to welfare and economic justice.
• Transforming healthcare for women experiencing domestic violence and abuse
  Bristol leads evaluation and rollout of IRIS programme that improves training and support in GP practices.
• Optimising treatment for prostate cancer
  Bristol has contributed to research that provides a new evidence base for improving care and reducing harm caused by treatments.
• Discoveries lead to better and safer hip and knee replacements
  Research profoundly changes the practice of joint replacement globally.
• Reshaping migration laws in South America
  Immigration regulation has long been a legal and political challenge in South America. Professor Diego Acosta has produced extensive research on the issue that has decisively influenced several articles of major new immigration laws adopted in Brazil and Ecuador.
• Using evolutionary anthropology to improve women's health in Ethiopia
  Bristol research has helped to influence policy and create a blueprint for development interventions in remote communities.
• Reforming abortion law in Northern Ireland
  Prior to October 2019, abortion was illegal in Northern Ireland with very few exceptions. Research by Professor Sheelagh McGuinness and Dr Jane Rooney supported the campaign to decriminalise abortion and informed legislation that has enabled Northern Irish women to access legal and local abortion services.
• Protecting UK employment rights
  Over the last forty years, the UK has witnessed a gradual erosion of workers’ rights through labour market deregulation that has been balanced, at least to some degree, by the guarantee of fundamental rights through the EU.
• Discoveries lead to better and safer hip and knee replacements
  Research profoundly changes the practice of joint replacement globally.
• Confronting worker exploitation in electronics manufacturing
  Better migrant workers' rights at the world's biggest consumer electronics manufacturer, thanks to study which highlights the effects of 'just-in-time' manufacturing on staff.
• A radical advance in the treatment of age-related macular degeneration
  Research leads to increased availability of lower-cost treatment for a major worldwide cause of sight loss.
• A radical advance in the treatment of age-related macular degeneration
  Research leads to increased availability of lower-cost treatment for a major worldwide cause of sight loss.