Seven Schools and eleven disciplines
The College of Arts & Social Sciences brings together an enormous range of scholarly research, embracing seven Schools and eleven disciplines.
The portfolio ranges from single subject (Law, Psychology, Accounting & Finance) to the strongly interdisciplinary (the Postgraduate School ), to those which are both multi-and interdisciplinary (Social and Environmental Sciences, Humanities, and Education, Social Work and Continuing Education).
Research in the College is extremely diverse in all respects and as these examples suggest, some research is highly abstract some highly practical; much is done by individuals, but much is also done in teams, these being increasingly multi or inter-disciplinary in character.
Selected Research Projects
Memory and Public Commemoration
Documenting the objects and monuments that commemorated Robert Burns, and the variety of reasons that lay behind his popularity.
Lagoons
The environmental issue of concern of the LAGOONS project is the anthropogenic deterioration and climate change impacts on surface water and lagoons ecosystems.
Largest collective event in the world
Funded by the ESRC, Dr Nick Hopkins has been studying the largest collective event in the world.
Five Million Questions
Before the end of 2014 Scotland will answer a profound and seemingly simple question: should we become an independent country or remain part of the UK.