The School of Social Sciences comprises a number of collaborative research clusters supporting our doctoral students and encouraging wide participation both through our partnerships and our full programme of conferences, public events and lectures. Some of our research clusters are grouped together within the 3 research centres within the school.
Research
Centres
- Centre for Environment and Society (CES)
- Centre for Global Politics, Economy and Society (GPES)
- Europe Japan Research Centre
Groups
- Critical Security Studies
- Cultures, Identities and Divisions
- Human Origins and Palaeo Environments (HOPE)
- Humans, Animals and Environment
- International Political Theory (IPT)
- Maternity and Childbirth (OxMater)
- Nocturnal Primate Research Group (NPRG)
- Oxford Wildlife Trade Research Group
- Primatology and Conservation
- Space and Temporalities
- State and Society
Projects
Active Projects
- A chronological investigation of palaeoenvironmental change in Wadi Iddayyah, United Arab Emirates
- Analysis of sustainability and reorganisation of Arabian coastal Neolithic socio-ecological systems
- Barqa Epipalaeolithic
- Chironomid Assemblage of Devils Lake, Wisconsin, USA
- Double Trouble: Effect of Violent Conflict on the Abuse and Misuse of Medicine in the MENA Region
- Eastern Buddhist Editorship
- Ecosystem resilience and recovery from the Permo-Triassic crisis
- Excavating the roots of the tree of life: revealing a billion year fossil record for the euglenids
- Exploring Global Jodo Shinshu Through Ritual Practice: Histories, Transformations and Localisations
- Human-Disease Co-Evolution in Deep Time
- Japan 2020
- Long-Term Environmental Change in the Ecuadorian Tropical Andes - Volcán Cayambe
- Rewriting the Prehistory of Jordan
- Slow Loris Conservation
- Solar irradiance and vegetation dynamics at the K/Pg boundary
- Upskilling for future generations (GEN-UP)
- Voting Advice Applications
- What kind of military does Ukraine want and need?
- Wildlife Friendly Coffee
Completed Projects
- Becoming East and Southeast Asian
- Being a father and a refugee
- Can the music of poetry transcend cultural and linguistic barriers?
- Comparison of older ex-offender resettlement and community-based organisations for reducing recidivi
- Government briefings on Ukrainian domestic politics
- Kawashima: The Missing Link
- Poetry, song, heritage: the Poetic Mind
- Shaping debates on UK trade policy and Brexit
The School of Social Sciences is an environment of critical enquiry and rigorous research. Our innovative and influential research has received international recognition; changing attitudes and informing policy across areas as diverse as primatology, biodiversity conservation and wildlife trade, gendered practices in family and work lives, and Eastern European politics.
Humanities and Social Sciences Research Degrees team