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Professor Mike Levi

Prestigious Sellin-Glueck award for Cardiff criminologist

12 May 2014

Professor Mike Levi is this year’s recipient of the Sellin-Glueck award in criminology, the highest award given by The American Society of Criminology to scholars from outside the USA.

Two School of Social Sciences staff elected as Fellows of The Learned Society of Wales

24 April 2014

Professor Paul Atkinson and Dr Sara Delamont have been elected to The Learned Society of Wales in the 2014 Election of new Fellows

Academics join forces to call for children’s equal protection from physical assault

28 March 2014

A group of senior Welsh academics have come together to call for the Welsh Government to bring forward legislation to remove the legal defence of ‘reasonable punishment’ for adults who physically assault children.

Left to right, Dr Sarah Main, Phillipa Oldman, Professor Alan Felstead, John Gill, Cathy Newman.

Research results used to prompt the skills debate

19 March 2014

Research results emerging from the Skills and Employment Survey continue to inform the skills debate.

Professor Martin Innes

Cardiff professor is first ever academic appointed to College of Policing committee

12 March 2014

Professor Martin Innes has been appointed to the College of Policing's professional committee to provide support on a range of national policing issues.

Cardiff research sparks nationwide action for compulsory sex and relationships education

10 March 2014

Cardiff research sparks nationwide action for compulsory sex and relationships education.

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Gender segregation in Wales

4 March 2014

Research uncovers full extent of gender segregated working.

New drive for WAVE of change on gender pay gap in Wales

4 March 2014

Women Adding Value to the Economy (WAVE) project release major new report revealing the full extent of gender segregated working in Wales.

QS world rankings

QS world rankings

28 February 2014

18 subjects feature in international league table.

FGM in Wales 'largely unreported' say researchers

6 February 2014

Dozens of women and girls in Wales are at risk of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), according to experts at the School of Social Sciences.