We offer high-quality supervision across a wide range of social and public policy areas seeking to research and examine causes and effects of global mobility.Overview:There are further details on the research activities and publications of individual members of staff and the School’s research units on the website. In addition to regular meetings with individual supervisors, all research students take a research training programme.About the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR): The School has a long and distinguished history, and is one of the largest and most successful social science research communities in Europe. In the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, 100% of our Social work and social policy research was classified as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ for impact and environment. The School supports a large and thriving postgraduate community and in 2010 distributed in excess of £100,000 in Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) quota awards, and in University and SSPSSR bursaries and scholarships to new students.Colleagues specialise in research of international, comparative and theoretical significance, and we have collective strengths in the following areas: civil society, NGOs and the third sector cross-national and European social policy health, social care and health studies work, employment and economic life risk, ‘risk society’ and risk management race, ethnicity and religion social and public policy sociology and the body crime, culture and control sociological theory and the culture of modernity.