Unit for social and policy research

Co-Directors Professor Eileen Green and Dr Andrea Abbas

Research staff

We carry out externally funded research, policy evaluation and consultancy, in addition to organising regional, national and international events. The Unit has a well established reputation for delivering empirical research projects, especially action projects in the areas of social exclusion, difference and diversity. Staff associated with USPR work closely with voluntary groups and agencies in a variety of community and organisational settings.

Our key research areas are:

HE and pedagogical research
health and well-being
digital technologies
gender, social inclusion and communities
innovative methodologies

Current projects

British Steel Archive
What citizenship do we want?
Pedagogic quality and inequality in university first degrees
The Digital Villages network project (Redcar and Cleveland)
Long term unemployed males and health messages
Processes, outcomes and metrics for assessing synchronous and asynchronous collaboration in virtual worlds
How ‘out’ is ‘out’? Living lesbian lives in the British armed forces since January 2000

Completed projects

ADVANCE women to employability
Act4 Health
Rebooting Communities? An exploration of ICT use in rural regeneration
The Chandni digital arts project:
Steve Thompson and Carrie Singleton have been working with the Chandni group on their Digital Arts Project funded by The National Lottery Awards for All. The Chandni Ladies Group get together at the International Centre in Middlesbrough to cook healthy food, learn new skills, socialise and go on outings.

News and publications

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Social policy research publications

Research projects archive

Contact us

Directors: Professor Eileen Green and Dr Andrea Abbas
Unit for Social and Policy Research
School of Social Sciences & Law
Teesside University
Middlesbrough
United Kingdom
TS1 3BA
T: 01642 342346
E: b.cox@tees.ac.uk