Our Research
A key part of the Faculty’s mission is to tackle some of the important societal challenges currently facing the world through interdisciplinary work, enabling greater knowledge exchange and research opportunities within and beyond the social sciences.
The faculty is home to the cross-faculty Leeds Social Sciences Institute, which has an important role in driving forward the research and innovation agenda in this area.
School of Education
We undertake research in key areas of educational policy and practice, and place particular emphasis on the relevance of our work to practitioners and policymakers. Our research includes human rights and citizenship, language education, lifelong learning, and mathematics and science education.
School of Politics and International Studies
POLIS is one of the largest academic departments in the field of politics and international studies in the UK. Our research is focused on international relations and security, global justice and development, leadership, parties and institutions, and political theory and democratisation.
School of Sociology and Social Policy
The School has a reputation for policy-relevant research that is sociologically informed and methodologically innovative. Our main research areas cover disability, ethnicity and racism, family life and generations, care and employment, gender and sexuality, and social theory, policy and methods.
School of Law
Law fosters and promotes research in all major fields of legal study. Our research focuses around business law and practice, criminal justice, European law and legal studies, and international governance.
Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
The centre emphasises cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and gender theory. We focus on the intersections of gender with class, race and sexuality. Staff and students are drawn from a wide variety of departments across the University.
Leeds Social Sciences Institute
LSSI houses the Building Sustainable Societies transformation project that brings together different disciplines to address difficult social challenges, both local and international.