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Social Policy and Social Work

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    University of York, Social Policy and Social Work

    YO10 5DD Heslington, York

Organisation profile

Organisation profile

The Department of Social Policy and Social Work (SPSW) is part of the School for Business and Society. This new interdisciplinary School brings together a groundbreaking combination of disciplines. We're delivering real societal impact through research which looks at key debates in public policy, business and society. Through combining and amplifying strengths in responsible business management, social and public policy, social work and public management, we will create an environment that will help develop the ethical leaders of tomorrow.

The Department of Social Policy and Social Work (SPSW) at York is one of the leading UK centres for teaching and research in social policy, social work and professional development for the public sector.

We pride ourselves on the calibre of our academic staff, the majority of whom have been assessed as either ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (RAE 2008).

Expertise within the teaching section of the Department focuses on: comparative and international social policy; children and youth policy; gender, sexuality and inequality; social work services and participation; social research methods; professional skills for social work.

We are also home to the Social Policy Research Unit and Centre for Housing Policy.

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  • AI-assisted teams outperform AI-led teams but not human-only teams in assessing research reproducibility in quantitative social science

    Brodeur, A., Valenta, D., Marcoci, A., Aparicio, J. P., Mikola, D., Barbarioli, B., Alexander, R., Deer, L., Stafford, T., Vilhuber, L., Bensch, G., Motoki, F., Abdelhady, M., Abdelmoula, Y., Baki, G. A., Aguirre, T., Aiyer, S., Akhtar, S., Akhtar, F. & Albada, M. R. & 252 others, Altman, M., Angenendt, D., Arjmandi Lari, Z., De León Tejada, J. A., Arana, D. R., Asanov, I., Noha, A.-M., Ashong, R., Auer, T., Bahamonde-Birke, F. J., Baker, B. J., Bartram, S. M., Bao, D., Batinovic, L., Batistoni, T., Beeder, M., Beland, L.-P., Gero Bienz, C., Aryanto, C. B., Bolibaugh, C., Bonander, C., Bravo, R., Bronnikov, E., Bruns, S., Buliskeria, N., Caicedo-Silva, S., Calef, A., Sebastian Cano Arias, J., A Castillo Alvarez, G., Caulker, S., Cepenas, S., Chatton, A., Chen, Z., Chioma Ewurum, N., Ciocîrlan, A.-B., Clouth, F. J., Collins, J., Cook, N., Cornejo, C., Craveiro, J., Créchet, J., Cui, J., Chalil Vayalabron, N., Czymara, C., Bermúdez Jaramillo, C. D., Datta, H., Denoo, L., Dhaliwal, A., Dhameja, N., Djemai, E., Dujeancourt, E., Dündar, U., Duprey, T., Eissa, Y., El Fassi, Y., El Fassi, I., Ellis, K., Elminejad, A., Elsherif, M., Emirmahmutoglu, A., Etingin-Frati, G., Eze, E., Dollbaum, J. F., Feld, J., Felipe Rengifo Jaramillo, A., Fenig, G., Fernandes, V., Fiala, L., Fink, L., Firouzjaeiangalougah, M., Fish, S., Fitzgerald, J., Forshaw, R., Fortier-Chouinard, A., Fréget, L., Frese, J., Gabani, J., Gallegos, S., Gamill, M. C., Gáspár, A., Gauriot, R., Gavrilova, E., Geraldes, D., Cantone, G. G., Gibson, G., Goldschmitt, D., Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A., Gregor de Varda, A., Grigoryeva, I., Gugushvili, A., Fletcher, A. H. A., Habermann, F., Hablicsek, M., Haddad, J., Hall, J. D., Hammar, O., Hassouneh, M., Hausladen, C. I., Hendrikse, S. C. F., Hepplewhite, M., Ho, A. T. Y., Hogan-Hennessy, S., Howley, E., Huang, G., Hulstaert, H., Ilchovska, Z. G., Jaimes Santamaria, P., Jakobsson, N., Jansson, J., Jarosz, E., Jebeli, H., Jiang, Y., Junaid, H., Kalluraya, R., Karim, S., Kelly, E., Kimel, E., Kingsuwankul, S., Klotzbücher, V., Krähmer, D., Krūminas, P., Kruus, N., Kujansuu, E., Kurz, C. F., Küster, S., Lee-Whiting, B., Lewandowski, F., Li, T., Li, R., Liu, D., Liu, J., Lo, H., Loter, K., Macedo Dias, F., Madan, C. R., Mäder, N., Mandas, M., Mantilla, C., Marcus, J., Marino Fages, D., Martin, X., McWay, R., Medina-Gaspar, D., Meng, S., Meng, L., Merz, S., Miller, A. P., Mirabel, T., Mishra, D. D., Mishra, S., Moges, B. W., Mohandes Mojarrad, M., Mohnen, M., Morin, L.-P., Muehlenbachs, L., Mullin, G., Musulan, A., Muzzì, S., Myers, J. A. C., Neubauer, F., Nguyen, T., Niazi, A., Nordstrom, A., Nowak, B., O'Habib, D., Ölkers, T., Ong, J., Orozco Castiblanco, V., Özak, Ö., Ozkes, A. I., Paaso, M., Pandey, S., Papazoglou, V., Penheiro, R., Pham, L., Phieler, U., Pütz, P., Qi, Q., Qiu, J., Rein, M. T., Reinstein, D. A., Repo, J., Rudolf, N., Saha, S., Saka, O., Saponaro, C., Sator, G., Schoenmakers, M., Seri, R., Shah, M., Sibille, P., Siemroth, C., Skavysh, V., Slater, B., Song, W., Staubli, S., Steindl, T., Waongo, N. S., Stott, P., Strobel, S., Sudhaharan, R., Sun, P., Swain, S. D., Talavera, O., Tantiangco, H. M., Tarasenko, G., Tarlinton, B., Tarraf, M., Teoh, K., Thériault, R., Thompson, B., Tian, T., Tian, W., Tolani, E., Borgen, N., Topstad Borgen, S., Torralba, J., Velez-Ospina, C., Mak, M. W., Wallrich, L., Wang, Z., Ward, L., Webb, M. D., Webb, D., Weber, B. S., Weber, C., Weng, W.-C., Westheide, C., Wilkinson, T., Wong, K.-Y., Wroński, M., Wu, Z., Wu, Q., Wu, V. Y., Xiao, B., Xu, F., Xu, C., Yadav, P., Yang Chou, Y., Yap, L., Yazbeck, M., Yao, B., Zagrodzka, Z., Zahra, T., Zaneva, M., Zhang, X., Zhao, Z., Zhong, H., Zirgulis, A., Zou, J., Zoutman, F. & Zozoungbo, C., 28 May 2026, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 123, 22, p. e2524747123 11 p., e2524747123.

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  • Algorithmic Tenancies and the Ordinal Tenant: Digital Risk-profiling in England’s Private Rented Sector

    Wallace, A., Beer, D. G., Burrows, R., Ciocanel, A. & Cussens, J., 20 Jan 2026, In: Housing Studies. 41, 2, p. 331-351

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  • A manifesto: Co-constructing contemporary climate change education

    Moulton, J. & Snell, C. J., 30 Mar 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The Journal of Environmental Education.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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