Tag: Social Policy and Social Work

GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT

In 2018 York launched a major new research centre, the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC). It is an ambitious research and teaching centre, committeed to improving policy and livelihoods, investing in the future generations of students through innovative teaching programmes and supporting York’s first class research base

The IGDC conducts research that promotes the needs of the most vulnerable groups in society. Through the Centre, York is supporting citizenship for global development […]

The life of a legacy

Thanks to those donors who have left a gift in their will, we can make a world of difference to generations to come.

Community Insights: Tang Hall Big Local Project

Sociology lecturer Daryl Martin recaps the Big Local team’s presentation on campus

Tang Hall Big Local is a National Lottery funded and resident led plan in which a £1 million grant will be used to seed small-scale community projects over the next ten years.

Documenting a tragedy

The University has launched major research projects which count the human cost of the refugee crisis

In a local cemetery on the Greek island of Lesbos, rows of hastily-dug graves contain human remains, barely covered with earth and marked only with broken stones on which is written a nationality, date of death and a number.