School of Sociology and Social Policy Research Centres
The Bauman Institute
The Bauman Institute is the home of social theory at the University of Leeds. Informed by the legacy of Zygmunt Bauman, it is a hospitable space for interdisciplinary and international collaboration, bringing scholars together for the purposes of theoretical research on urgent local, national and global challenges.
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Centre for Disability Studies
CDS engages with interdisciplinary research, exploring disabled people’s position across social world organisation. The Centre promotes research rooted in the imagination and realisation of accessible, inclusive, and participatory societies. It is committed to working alongside disabled people’s organisations to progress liberation and eradicate injustice.
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Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies
CERS is an interdisciplinary research centre which engages the fields of race and ethnicity, decoloniality, migration and diaspora in a conversation to identify and unpack current trends in the global and political order. Our core research and scholarship themes are: Decoloniality and Anti-Racism, Diaspora and Migration and Islamophobia.
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Centre for Research on Families, Life Course and Generations
FLaG brings together research expertise in the areas of family, youth, education to employment pathways and transitions, educational inequalities and intergenerational relationships as well as field-defining qualitative methodological expertise notably in the areas of longitudinal research and qualitative secondary analysis.
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Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
CIGS brings together academics from the social sciences, arts and humanities. It fosters dialogue between researchers interested in gender, feminism and LGBTQIA+ scholarship. CIGS collaborates with feminist and queer communities to develop a teaching and research agenda aimed at building an inclusive future for all.
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