Centre for Research in Communities, Identities and Difference (CResCID)

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The Centre for Research on Communities, Identities and Difference is a Research Centre located in the School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences at Kingston University.

Its mission is to produce strategic knowledge relevant to global problems by fostering multi-disciplinary research on social justice and how adversity impacts on individuals and their communities.

Since 2011, the Centre has established an international reputation for original research and policy-relevant knowledge. It has conducted a strategic programme of multi-disciplinary social scientific research (publication, dissemination, public events, knowledge transfer and user engagement activities), often in conjunction with external stakeholder groups - both academic and non-academic - in the UK and abroad.

The Centre facilitates policy, practice, user engagement and academic collaborations within the School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences, which encompasses the departments of Criminology, Politics and Sociology, Economics, Law and Psychology.

A critical mass of researchers across the five departments of the School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences share a concern with social justice and human and social development; within this remit, the centre's research broadly addresses three inter-related research strands:

• Social justice, inequality and security.
• Migration, economic development and international human rights.
• Improving health and wellbeing across communities.

In line with its overall mission statement, the Centre's aims are:

• Academic advancement: contributing significant new empirical data; reflecting and advancing theory, methods and multi-disciplinary understanding in social and behavioural studies; and building capacity among researchers and practitioners.
• Informing policy-making and public debate: providing evidence and analysis to policy-makers and to the wider public that will inform policy-making and public debate.
• Engaging with research users: establishing synergic relationships with individuals and organisations addressing social justice and inequalities, public health, government, business, international organisations, and third sector and civil society organisations.
• Attracting and retaining the best scientists, staff and students by increasing the pool of diverse applicants for roles in the centre.
• Attracting external research funding for research and to support PhD study.
• Preparing students to become leaders in an increasingly multicultural society and world.

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Kingston University
River House
53–57 High Street
Kingston upon Thames
KT1 1LQ

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