Just Futures Research Centre

Description

The Just Futures Research Centre is an internationally renowned centre of excellence for innovative research that seeks to make a difference in response to contemporary social problems affecting children, young people, their families and communities. Established for over 25 years, the Centre is a dynamic space for innovating thinking and practice and enabling learning for change in organisations and communities.

The Centre comprises a multi-disciplinary team of highly regarded academics from across the University drawn from areas including social work, health, social policy, sociology, geography, political science, psychology and education.

The Centre's aim is to enhance understanding and generate new knowledge and evidence-informed changes in policies and practices in order to promote just, equitable and sustainable lives for children, young people in their families and communities.

Research clusters include:

• Rethinking Child Protection
• Healthy Housing Initiative
• Child and Youth Participation and Democratic Engagement
• Gender and Sexuality
• Intersex Studies
• Ni3: Preventing Gender-Based Violence
• Migration, Displacement and Resettlement
• Social Enterprise
• Creativity and Mental Health
• Young People, Place and Wellbeing

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University of Huddersfield
Huddersfield

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None in Three (Ni3)

There exists much research in the area of gender-based violence, but Ni3 is notable in its emphasis on the prevention of such violence and its innovative approach of developing evidence-based anti-vio… read more about None in Three (Ni3)

Huddersfield