The Social Policy Association’s Social Harm Policy Group has secured another two years of renewed funding to continue its influential work addressing the structural causes of social harm, linking inequality, marginalisation, and political change to real-world impacts on communities and policy.
Two postgraduate researchers from the University of Bristol’s School for Policy Studies - Dr Lois Peach and Dr Bintu Mansaray - have been awarded the Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences 2024/25 Doctoral Prize for outstanding excellence in a doctoral dissertation.
Congratulations to Dr Lucy Series, from the School for Policy Studies, whose book has been awarded the 2025 Peter Townsend Prize by the British Academy.
A three-year collaboration between the University of Namibia (UNAM) and the University of Bristol, funded by the Perivoli Foundation through the Perivoli Africa Research Centre (PARC), has just concluded a study on early childhood education in Namibia.
Social Policy at Bristol has been ranked 4th in the UK in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026.
Congratulations to Dr Sandhya Fuchs from the School for Policy Studies (SPS) whose new book has won the 2025 James Busuttil Medal and Prize for human rights scholarship from the Royal Asiatic Society.
Dr Oliver Russell, co-founder and first director of the University’s famous Norah Fry Research Centre (now the Norah Fry Centre for Disability Studies in the School for Policy Studies), died on 25 July. His colleagues offer a remembrance.
A new research programme has been launched to explore the interconnection between the use and abuse of animals by domestic abuse perpetrators and domestic abuse-related homicide-suicide.
We were delighted to celebrate with graduates from the Class of 2025 at an informal event in Priory Road Gardens after the formal graduation in the Wills Memorial Building.
Research and policy specialists in child and family life were welcomed to Bristol in June for the inaugural International Child and Family Conference.
Congratulations to Beth Tarleton, a senior lecturer in the School for Policy Studies, who was part of the research team which scooped the 2024 Kay McDougall British Journal of Social Work Prize for best article.
Social Policy at Bristol has been ranked 3rd in the UK by the Complete University Guide 2026.
Renowned experts in childhood and family life will be in Bristol in June for the inaugural International Child and Family Conference.
More than 100 school shirts emblazoned with compelling messages capturing children and young people’s feelings about knife crime are set to be publicly exhibited.
We are delighted to announce that Dr Papadaki from the School for Policy Studies has been named as one of the University’s 2025-2026 Enterprise Fellows.
We are delighted to announce that Professor Geraldine Macdonald, Professor of Social Work from the School for Policy Studies, has been named as one of the new cohort of outstanding social scientists to join the Academy of Social Sciences.
Congratulations to Professor Geraldine Macdonald, Professor of Social Work in the School for Policy Studies, who has been appointed as a new NIHR Senior Investigator.
Vital service that supports professionals working with parents with learning disabilities/difficulties is moving from the University of Bristol to Research in Practice
When Abdullahi Abdi threw his mortarboard in the air on graduating and looked skyward, his sense of elation was overshadowed by huge sorrow.
We were delighted to celebrate with graduates from the Class of 2024 at an event St George's after the formal graduation in the Wills Memorial Building.
The University of Bristol is calling for the release of alumnus Jesús Armas, a human rights activist who has been detained against his will in Venezuela.
Congratulations to Dez Holmes who has been awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours list for services to improving social care practice.
