Addressing the most significant challenges facing society today
College of Social Sciences and International Studies
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Our vision Social solutions for a changing world Delivering world-class teaching and research Governance, Policy and Regulation Social and Environmental Justice The Future of Work Global Securities Policing and Criminal Justice Working together Get in touch
Our vision Through our world-leading research and teaching, we design original and sustainable solutions to the most challenging global and local social challenges.
Each of our five disciplines work with key collaborators – both in the UK and overseas – to develop strong research partnerships and foster an environment for a vibrant and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas.
Graduate School of Education
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
Law School
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Politics and International Relations
Sociology (including Criminology), Philosophy and Anthropology
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Social solutions for a changing world
The College of Social Sciences and International Studies has staff and students based at all three of the University’s main campuses – Streatham and St Luke’s in Exeter, and Penryn in Cornwall. Our core mission is to provide an innovative, intellectually challenging and distinctive education experience for our students, preparing them for life after graduation as well as creating a future generation of researchers, thinkers and enablers.
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Our critical, inquiry-focused expertise helps those in fields such as technology and health to understand and adapt the approaches they use. Our work is relevant to and connected with the professions, ranging from education to the criminal justice system, from global security to public administration. The College’s key themes focus on social and societal challenges, addressing real needs. The interdisciplinary approaches we take lend themselves powerfully to problem-solving which is dynamic and engaging.
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Delivering world-class teaching and research
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OUR STAFF
OUR STUDENTS
OUR GRADUATES
400 academic staff from 42 countries
3,000 UG students 1,100 PG students 400 PGCE trainees From 114 countries
Over 86% of the College of Social Sciences and International Studies students gained a 1st or 2:1 degree in 2017/18.
Supported by
100 Professional Services staff
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In 2016/17 six months after graduation, the proportion of our graduates in professional level employment or graduate level further study was 86.2% for the College of Social Sciences and International Studies overall and 89.9% (Law).
89.9%
WE ARE IN TOUCH WITH 21,000 ALUMNI
OUR STANDARDS 2019
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Delivering world-class teaching and research Iceland
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Denmark Irish Rep
Canada
The Netherlands Belgium Britain Guernsey Portugal Spain
Romania
Germany
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Poland France
Switzerland
America
Estonia
Italy Malta Tunisia
Mexico Algeria
Hungary
Serbia China
Romania Croatia Bulgarian Kosovo Syria Bosnia Lebanese Greece Jordan Cyprus Israel Egypt
Turkey
Iraq Kuwait
Pakistan
Bahrain Saudi Arabia
Trinidad and Tobago
Oman
Sudan
Taiwan
Thailand
UAE
Hong Kong
Sharjah Myanmar
India
Ethiopia
Nigeria
Staff from over 40 countries
South Korea
Iran
Libya
Columbia
Japan
Azerbaijan
Cameroon
Sri Lanka
Kenya
Singapore Indonesia
Stakeholders from over 70 countries
Zimbabwe
Peru Brazil
Fiji Mozambique Botswana Namibia
Students from 114 countries
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Algeria Angola Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belgium Bermuda Bolivia Botswana Brazil Brunei
Bulgaria Cameroon Canada Cayman Islands Channel Islands Chile China Colombia Croatia Cyprus (European Union) Czech Republic
Ecuador Egypt England Eritrea Estonia Falkland Islands Faroe Islands Finland France Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Guernsey
Hong Kong Hungary India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Isle of Man Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya
Korea (South) Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Libyan AR Luxembourg Macao Macedonia Malaysia Malta Mauritius Mexico Monaco Morocco Netherlands
New Zealand Nigeria Norway Palestine Oman Pakistan Peru Philippines Poland Portugal (includes Madeira, Azores) Qatar Romania
Russia Saudi Arabia Serbia Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia South Africa Spain Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tanzania Thailand Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia Turkey Uganda Ukraine UAE UK USA Uzbekistan Vietnam Zambia Zimbabwe
Madagascar Australia
South Africa
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Governance, Policy and Regulation
We are proud of our track record in leading research which is informing and influencing policy in regulation and governance nationally and internationally. One strong example of our leadership in this thematic area is through our work in policy on cyber law and on governance in environments of insecurity and instability. Over the last decade, Professor Mike Schmitt in our Law School has led an international team of world class experts through the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence to create the Tallinn Manual 2.0 on the International
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Law Applicable to Cyber Operations – the most comprehensive analysis of how existing international law applies to cyberspace both during peacetime and during periods of armed conflict. Globally acknowledged, the Tallinn Manual 2.0 has been adopted by over 50 states and international organisations in the development and refinement of shared approaches to the governance of cyberspace policy. Professor Schmitt and colleagues now provide training for government officials and international lawyers throughout the world in the fast changing policy landscape of cyber affairs. Read more at exeter.ac.uk/tallinnmanual exeter.ac.uk/schmitt
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Social and Environmental Justice
Through expertise in our Centre for Social Mobility and other successful inclusive educational activities such as Pathways to Law, #mypathtolaw and our community Law Clinic, we examine the barriers and enablers of social mobility, and explore radical solutions through political, social, anthropological, legal and educational perspectives. By working across our disciplines, we adopt deep approaches to addressing the need for greater social justice in our local, regional, national and global communities and we do this by finding ways to effect the impact of our research and expertise through real-world projects that seek to make a difference.
In 2018 we appointed our first Professor of Social Mobility, Professor Lee Elliot Major – a global thought-leader in this field whose work is dedicated to improving the prospects of disadvantaged young people through focused engagement with schools, universities, employers and policy makers. Professor Elliot Major argues that fair access to higher education is a fundamental enabler for social mobility, to improve life opportunities and outcomes for individual students while benefiting the economy as a whole. Yet, he is highly critical of the sector for its current failure to properly address this issue. At Exeter we are fully committed to working closely with Professor Elliot Major and the Centre for Social Mobility in the Graduate School of Education, led by Professor Anna Mountford Zimdars, to proactively implement findings from their research on best practice into understanding barriers to widening participation and which interventions can be put in place to bring about sustained changed. Read more at exeter.ac.uk/socialmobility/news/ exeter.ac.uk/lee_elliotmajor
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The Future of Work
We are designing our extensive suite of undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes in the College to be relevant and future-focused and to embrace the implications for our students and our wider professional communities of an increasingly permeable and volatile working environment, changed through transformative new technologies, the use of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. Our particular research expertise in understanding and utilising complex data in ever-changing social contexts through our Q-Step Centre, which specialises in the advancement of quantitative social science skills, and through Egenis, our interdisciplinary Centre for the study of the social and human implications of life sciences research, enhances the evidence base for our programmes.
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We will also be developing the next generation of lawyers, equipping them with academic and practical skills that will make them future leaders of their field through work placement module options. For example, in 2020, in partnership with leading Law firm Reed Smith LLP, we are launching an exciting new four year LLB ‘Legal Placement’ degree programme designed to prepare students for significant growth in legal innovation and technology and how this will inevitably change the future role of judges and lawyers as well as how justice is accessed more generally by the public. The programme includes an immersive year-long placement at Reed Smith’s London office, where students will work on active innovation projects which will focus on new and improved ways to deliver legal services. Read more at exeter.ac.uk/reedsmith exeter.ac.uk/q-step exeter.ac.uk/egenis
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Global Securities
We take a contemporary and interdisciplinary approach to our research, consultancy and teaching in the field of global securities and global strategy. Our work focuses on how individuals and organisations deal with conflict, unrest, and crisis under intense pressure and how effective strategy is created and implemented. We have a range of research expertise across our Politics department, particularly in the field of International Relations, as well as our Strategy and Security Institute, Law School and the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies where a number of our world-leading Professors, who work closely with various government and international organisations, enable us to develop relevant professionally-focused programmes of study. These include, for example a suite of Masters’ programmes in Applied Security Strategy; Conflict, Security and Development; International Relations; and Politics and International Relations of the Middle East. Supporting our work in global securities is an extensive network of affiliated honorary fellows from government, the military and related organisations who ensure that our work is connected in with relevant policy makers and practitioners.
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One example of our impact in this broad field can be found in the work of Professor Gareth Stansfield, Director of the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies. Following the US-led occupation of Iraq in 2003, research by Professor Stansfield into conflict management, political mobilisation, and the rebuilding of the Iraqi state went on to inform and underpin UK government and international policy. Professor Stansfield has regularly provided analysis and advice directly to the Director of Intelligence at the Permanent Joint Headquarters (PJHQ), and was invited to give evidence at the Iraq Inquiry in 2009. He continues to advise the UK government extensively and has chaired US Government events on this subject, briefing research analysts and ambassadors-designate of the FCO regularly. His book ‘Iraq’ has been recommended as essential reading to FCO staff beginning their work on Iraq, and as an ideal way of introducing them to a complex country in a detached, dispassionate fashion. Read more at exeter.ac.uk/stansfield
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Policing and Criminal justice
Through engaging more deeply with our social partners, our work cuts across a wide range of disciplines, particularly in Criminology, Sociology, Anthropology and Law. We provide ways for students, professionals, employers and policymakers to connect in order to tackle complex problems facing the justice system. We are making a difference locally, nationally and globally. For example, in 2019 we launched a new Policing Lab in partnership with Devon and Cornwall Police which draws together our extensive research expertise in the field with leading police practitioners to frame and promote rigorous evidence-practice in policing.
Research by Dr Abi Dymond in our department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology on Taser use in England and Wales has led to the development of safer and more transparent policing through a new national reporting system. Dr Dymond was invited to join a police-led strategic review into the reporting of all types of force used in policing and her recommendations on a single, standardised reporting mechanism have now been adopted across all 43 police forces in England and Wales. Dr Dymond has subsequently worked with the Omega Research Foundation, a UK NGO which researches the manufacture, trade, and use of military, security and police equipment to develop a new practical guide for the effective monitoring of weapons and restraints in places of detention which has been adopted by the United Nations Sub-Committee. The guide is widely acknowledged as an important development in the prevention of torture around the world. Read more at exeter.ac.uk/dymond
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Working together “Innovation is one of Reed Smith’s core values, and exciting initiatives such as these bespoke LLB courses with Exeter and Queen Mary form a key part of developing our next-generation of lawyers, with a well-rounded view of legal practice, innovation, available technologies and improved service delivery, all focused on a deep understanding of clients’ needs.”
“Abi Dymond’s research into the current status of police use of force recording provided a vital evidence base for the review, and an essential platform on which meaningful recommendations could be made on the recording of data in the future.” Neil Pattinson, Deputy Head of Police Powers Unit, UK Home Office
Lucy Dillon, Chief Knowledge Officer at Reed Smith LLP
It is our intention to question the norm. We draw energy and ideas from our diverse community of staff and students and continue to push boundaries in the ever-changing landscape of social science research. The combination of our people, our culture and our leadership lend themselves powerfully to problem-solving which is both dynamic and engaging. Working in partnership with our stakeholders, we will achieve results that would otherwise not be possible on our own.
Getting Football Onside Football Onside is a pioneering bystander intervention programme which trains participants to notice and intervene to Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in football and sport. Led by Dr Rachel Fenton at the University of Exeter the project is a collaboration between University of Exeter Law School, Exeter City Community Trust (ECCT), Public Health England, Devon County Council, Devon Rape Crisis and Sexual Abuse Services and the Hollie Gazzard Trust. The programme has just been delivered to staff at Exeter City Football Club and Community Trust and is being rigorously evaluated by researchers at University of Exeter.
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The Football Onside programme takes as its premise the idea that anyone can be an ‘active bystander’ – anyone can intervene positively in potentially harmful situations, if given the right training. Crucially, and as research demonstrates, when one person intervenes it changes the ‘group norm’ – it shows others that it’s okay to speak-up and deters would-be perpetrators from harmful behaviour since they fear being pulled up on it. Our staff are in contact with over 50,000 young people across the South West and our coaches are often seen as important role models by the young players they work worth – training up coaches to model positive bystander behaviour is a great way to contribute to the kind of culture change we’d like to see in football – one of mutual respect where violence and abuse, including the jokes and comments that go along with it, become unacceptable.
Outstanding Education Our Initial Teacher Education has been consistently graded as outstanding in all areas by Ofsted and ranked third amongst university providers of teacher training in the Good Teacher Training Guide 2017. We work in partnership with over 250 schools in the south west where our trainee teachers spend two-thirds of their training year, putting into practice what they have learnt on the taught course.
Our PGCE is uniquely characterised by innovative research-led teaching informed by professional practice and academic excellence. All our tutors have real-world experience as teachers, senior managers or Ofsted inspectors. They also lead and innovate, developing the latest ideas in teacher education, leading research, writing textbooks, leading subject networks and advising government. “Strong collaboration between all members of the partnership produces highly employable teachers who confidently apply theory to practice in class. Every trainee receives the individual personal and academic support they need to achieve their best and reach their full potential.” Ofsted Inspection Report 2017
Jamie Vittles, Chief Executive of Exeter City Community Trust
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When should doctors “re-contact” patients about faulty genes? Re-contacting in Mainstream Genetics is a research project run by researchers from Egenis and Exeter’s Centre for Science, Culture and the Law. “Re-contacting” happens when new information about a patient’s genes comes to light – such as when a certain gene mutation is reclassified as a cancer risk. It occurs when the patient is not under the ongoing care of a healthcare professional, and it is distinct from a routine follow-up. Rapid developments in genomic medicine create dilemmas for health services whose patients are affected and may affect people who take personal genetic tests to determine their ancestry.
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“Some people would want to be told if they are at risk of a serious illness, while others may not want to know. Currently, if advances in genomic medicine reveal that a particular patient is at risk of cancer or another disease, the response is decided by whichever doctor or geneticist is involved. There is no NHS guidance on what to do, and the same applies in most countries.” Professor Susan Kelly, Principal Investigator
“The NHS is adopting genomic medicine rapidly and clinicians are concerned that there is no NHS policy yet on re-contacting. Re-contacting raises important ethical and legal issues regarding the management of genomic information about patients and families.” Dr Naomi Hawkins, Legal Consultant
Read more at exeter.ac.uk/socialsciences
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Get in touch
College of Social Sciences and International Studies
exeter.ac.uk/socialsciences
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Email: socialsolutions@exeter.ac.uk
