How might we live with animate materials in the future? How might it make us feel living in a home where materials can adapt to changing conditions, perhaps even our moods? Do you want to live in an environment in which you might have to care for your roof in in a similar way to your pets?

Undergraduate and graduate first-gen students from Durham University, California State University and Los Angeles have together produced creative pieces about first-gen college identities.

Professor Carlene Firmin MBE from our Department of Sociology has collaborated with Professor Michelle Lefevre, lead author, from the University of Sussex to produce a new research book.

A team led by Professor Carlene Firmin from our Department of Sociology, has created a new toolkit aimed at improving child protection.

Professor Brian Castellani from our Department of Sociology is the Director of InSPIRE, a research consortium focused on the links between air pollution and brain health. Here, together with InSPIRE colleagues Dr Suzanne Bartington (Birmingham University) and Professor Stefan Reis (UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology), Brian discusses why air quality strategies should include benefits on brain health.

We’ve created new resources designed to help writers present an accurate view of people at risk of self-harm.

Professor Simon Hackett, Department of Sociology, gave expert evidence to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse on Thursday 25th October 2018.

A new NSPCC national framework to help tackle the issue of harmful sexual behaviour in children and young people is proving beneficial to professionals working in safeguarding.

Following the news that Hampshire constabulary paid out £20,000 in damages to a young woman who reported a rape to them in 2012, Nicole Westmarland argues the case for specialist teams to deal with people who experience sexual violence.

Following The Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, the biggest global meeting on this issue ever convened, Nicole Westmarland asks why some charity workers were refused entry?

Sexual abuse has an often devastating and long-term impact on the lives of many children and young people - for these children the future can be very dark indeed.

Recommendations in today's Stern report on rape and the criminal justice system are "still not good enough", warns a leading expert.