Communities, health, and social exclusion
The Centre for Applied Social Science has a number of members that have developed a progressive approach that broadly focuses on patterns and processes of social exclusion.
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The Centre for Applied Social Science has a number of members that have developed a progressive approach that broadly focuses on patterns and processes of social exclusion.
Areas of interest are in fields of inequalities and communities.
Members adopt a critical and analytical approach to notions of ‘community’, ‘behaviour’, and ‘social interaction’. Members in the centre conceptualise social exclusion as both a policy approach and a way of thinking about how access to goods, services, and resources may be more or less restricted for some social groups.
Members of this strand are all interested in how ‘community’ may be positively or adversely affected by policy developments.
The conceptualisations of everyday experiences are at the forefront of research in this strand.
The University of Sunderland has an established reputation for social research in this area, dating back to the 1980s. Our team currently consists of a multi-professional range of researchers and practitioners from disciplines such as Sociology, Social Work, Health and Social Care, Criminology, Youth and Community, and Childhood Studies.
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