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To mark the launch of a new UCL Policy Lab project, This Place Matters, new research reveals the extensive social cohesion challenges facing modern Britain.

While people from across the globe choose to move to Canada for any number of reasons, for some LGBTQ+ newcomers, Canada represents the freedom and safety they cannot find in their home countries.

HARARA means "heat" in Arabic - a fitting name for a project that addresses one of the most pressing climate challenges of our time.

Young people from racially and religiously minoritised backgrounds are often unlikely to feel able to talk about race or faith equality at school.

Academically high-achieving teenagers from the most deprived backgrounds in England are five times more likely to be arrested and cautioned or sentenced than their peers from the wealthiest backgrounds, finds new research by a UCL academic.

Post Office victims/survivors and their families have experienced deep trauma and can be left feeling revictimised, a study by UCL and University of Exeter researchers shows.

Most children in Irish primary schools show a strong sense of fairness and equality when it comes to immigration and ethnicity, according to the latest Children's School Lives report.

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Through the NWO Open Competition, the NWO Social Sciences and Humanities (SGW) domain aims to offer researchers the opportunity to conduct research on a topic of their own choosing, without thematic restrictions.

Study by communication scientist Volker Gehrau: EU requirements for accessible online services rarely implemented Directive (EU) 2016/2102, adopted by the European Union in 2016, is unequivocal: all public sector bodies are required to make their websites and mobile applications accessible.

University Professor at Kansai Gaidai University (Kansai University of Foreign Studies). Visiting Professor 2024-2025 from February 21 to March 28, 2025.

A major new research study has found the number of people dying in prison surged to a record number of 64 in 2024, a 60% increase on the previous year, making Scotland's mortality rate among the highest in Europe. 'Nothing to See Here? Deaths in Custody and their Investigation in Scotland in 2024', published by the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, looked into the number of people who had died while in prison, in police custody, a mental health facility, immigration detention centre and in care settings for looked after children and young people.

It is commonly assumed that countries with high gender equality give men and women a lot of freedom in their behaviors. However, in precisely these countries - such as Switzerland and Sweden - there are comparatively strong social beliefs for men to maintain the higher status of their gender group. This is shown by a recently published study by the Institute of Psychology at the University of Bern.

The TV series Adolescence might feel like dystopian fiction, but it could be closer to reality than we think.

A new publication by Swiss TPH and partners defines a global research agenda to tackle noma - a devastating and life-threatening disease mainly affecting children living in extreme poverty.

Anthropologist Susana Narotzky publishes an article in which she shows how the global economy increasingly relies on precarious, unrecognized and invisible forms of labour that fragment the working class and call into question traditional categories of labour and class.

Were the lockdown policies implemented around the globe during the Covid-19 pandemic racist? A thought-provoking new paper by our Philosophy Professor Alex Broadbent and Pieter Streicher of the University of Johannesburg, argues that lockdowns during Covid-19 were racist.

Men experiencing intimate partner violence turn to harmful coping strategies due to limited services and persistent social stigma, according to a new Simon Fraser University study.

Findings from the ten-year study on religion and church life in the Netherlands What still connects the Dutch now that churches continue to empty? That's the central question of the study God in the Netherlands , which KRONCRV's Kruispunt presents.

Regional news stories, as well as TV series, highlight an increasingly relevant issue: the phenomenon of hate speech on social networks.

Lengthy prison sentences can be as effective as the death penalty in deterring homicides, according to new University of Limerick research.