College of Social Sciences and International Studies

12 January 20262 min read

We’re excited to announce that nominations for the 2026 Knowledge Exchange Awards are officially open! If you’re part of a project that has turned research expertise into real-world benefit, now is your chance to put it forward and be recognised.

1 December 2025< 1 min read

How do we make sense of elections in a rapidly changing political landscape? And what can moments like Brexit, the Scottish independence referendum, and the rise of nationalist parties tell us about Britain today?

12 July 20223 min read

Dr Caitlin Kight is part of the University's Academic Development and Skills team and is using her EdD study to inform how to develop and enhance the use of 'self-study'.

9 June 20223 min read

Research by PhD candidate Anna Seecharan is investigating how our sense of smell and cooking and eating communally influences our relationship with food.

17 March 20223 min read

Dreolin Fleischer, a University of Exeter Research Fellow embedded in Devon and Cornwall Police, is a catalyst for evidence-based practice and collaboration.

16 March 20224 min read

University of Exeter researchers are working with police forces in England and Wales to better understand and improve the use of digital forensics when detecting crime.

15 November 20213 min read

The unique partnership, forged ten years ago, focuses on creating initiatives to support and benefit members of the local community.

12 October 20212 min read

Policy@Exeter are a dynamic community, working to improve and increase engagement with policy within the University and further afield.

25 June 20213 min read

Research evidence from the ‘Mapping Paths to Family Justice’ study (Mapping) led by Professor Anne Barlow at the University of Exeter has helped to reshape family mediation policy and practice and improve user experience for separating couples, after radical legal aid changes.

5 February 20213 min read

For many years, scientific research has been hidden behind expensive paywalls, leaving access to new and exciting scientific research inaccessible to the general public.

21 January 20212 min read

Research led by Dr Ana Beduschi from the University of Exeter Law School, has informed policymakers of the risks that digital health passports could pose to human rights, data privacy and social equality.

14 January 20213 min read

The research team of Identity, Inequality and the Media in Brexit-Covid19 Britain reflect on the impact Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic are having on inequalities in Britain.

3 December 20203 min read

Research at the University of Exeter has influenced and accelerated the introduction of opposite-sex civil partnerships and reopened debates about the ‘common law marriage myth’ and a related need for wider cohabitation law reform.

2 December 20203 min read

Anthrozoology PhD student Michelle Szydlowski discusses how working in Nepal has informed both her PhD thesis and her research.

23 November 20203 min read

The University of Exeter has helped to change the way that educators approach teaching grammar and writing to children.

4 November 20203 min read

Law school PhD student Mollie Gascoigne researchers the gaps between the law and LGBTQ+ people; her research project, the Gender Recognition & Reform Project has been investigating the attitudes and experiences of non-binary people towards legal gender recognition.

7 October 20204 min read

PhD candidate Malcolm Richards describes communicating his research to the public and how this has been affected by Covid and the current restrictions.

9 September 20202 min read

Doha Abualsaud's research explores teachers' daily lived experiences and emotional responses.

12 August 20203 min read

Anthropology PhD student Tridibesh Dey’s research is looking at the complex socio-political, cultural and economic factors of plastic and plastic recycling.

29 June 2020< 1 min read

Innovative research on enhancing the quality of evidence in outreach work from the University of Exeter’s Centre for Social Mobility is impacting on universities’ practices in designing and evaluating their work with widening participation students.

30 April 20203 min read

The COVID-19 pandemic is producing substantial changes in the practices and experiences of migration and mobility.

20 April 20205 min read

As developing countries gear up to tackle COVID-19, here are five ideas for simple collective intelligence projects that might help them.

22 March 20182 min read

Academics from Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology have been working with police across the South West to roll out the #RU2Drunk campaign.

26 February 20152 min read

Professor Anne Barlow's research findings on marriage and cohabitation laws have influenced policy in the UK and Germany.

22 December 2014< 1 min read

Successive research studies carried out by Professor Brahm Norwich at the University of Exeter have shaped policy and professional understanding of how best to teach pupils with SEN,