Research Centres
The Research Institute for Health and Social Change was established on 1 September 2003 to take forward and be the driver for research interests in the biological, psychological and social sciences. The Institute continues to be a centre of excellence and innovation in critical research and consultancy on social change, social inclusion, community participation, well-being, work and leisure, health and social care practices and policies, and behavioural sciences.
There are now three centres in the Research Institute reflecting three major themes:
To promote, support and undertake interdisciplinary research, in the fields of: health and health services, disability and rehabilitation, learning disability and applied behavioural science.
To engage in research which informs policy and practice, enhances effectiveness of organisations, celebrates diversity and works within a social justice framework to enhance people's lives, health and well being.
To develop innovative empirical and theoretical approaches to the study of subjectivity, and to elaborate constructionist, feminist and psychoanalytic ways of facilitating critical reflection on cultural processes, academic production and research practice.
Previously RIHSC was host to a fourth centre, Biomedical Science, which has now been incorporated within IRM Research Institute