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Politics and international relations

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We analyse political decisions made in the UK and around the world to understand how they affect people’s sense of place, their movement and their human rights.

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Improving the asylum system by making it more trauma-sensitive for vulnerable people

Future societies and communities
Health and wellbeing
Navigating the UK asylum system can negatively impact the mental health of young people seeking asylum. However, unaccompanied minors rarely have their voice heard.

Can AI be used to undermine elections?

AI, big data and analytics
Future societies and communities
Online political disinformation and voter profiling spiked during recent elections in the UK and US. How can we now protect democracies from threats posed by AI?
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Giving displaced women and girls a voice

Future societies and communities
Health and wellbeing
Professor Pia Riggirozzi highlights the perilous journeys migrant women and young girls from Central America and Venezuela undertake, including the risks they face and failures of current policies to protect them.
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Getting policymakers to focus on England's left-behind towns

Future societies and communities
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Unearthing pandemic insights to help towns level up

Future societies and communities
Health and wellbeing
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Population Health Sciences

We research prevention of disease, reduction of health inequalities and optimisation of health and wellbeing for whole populations across the lifecourse, in the UK and internationally.

Centre for Behavioural Experimental Action and Research (C-BEAR)

We utilise, develop, and apply experimental methods to study key questions in the behavioural and social sciences.

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