Projects
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What does it mean to be disabled and growing older?
Disabled people in the UK have a wealth of knowledge, expertise and experience about disability and ageing that currently isn’t discussed within services, communities or the research literature
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Equality and Differentiation in Marketised Higher Education
SIoE Professor Professor Colin McCaig is contributor and co-editor of new book on English higher education policy and equality
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Understanding the impact of financial support on student success: an institutional approach
For this initiative, data management staff at six universities worked to identify data fields that enabled them to better identify recipients of bursaries and scholarships so that institutions can better track their effectiveness.
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Understanding the evaluation of outreach with under-16s from disadvantaged backgrounds
Mapping institutions' HE outreach and access activities
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Scottish Toolkit for Fair Access
The Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council on behalf of the Commissioner for Fair Access invited tenders for the development of a Scottish Toolkit for Fair Access. The strategic gap was identified by the Commission on Widening Access (CoWA).
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Travelling Toilet Tales
Our ground-breaking 'Around the Toilet' research has explored what makes a safe and accessible toilet space. Nobody thinks about toilets when they think about utopias. Yet, the notion of ‘place’ emerged continually throughout the project.
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Storying School Toilets
'Around the Toilet' workshop at Sheffield Festival of Social Science
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Servicing Utopia in Education
Servicing Utopia in Education (SUiA): Critical considerations for social change through the accessible use and design of early years and primary education settings.
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Around the toilet: Thinking about Access, Identity and Space
Pioneering research exploring how toilets function as socio-cultural spaces
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Support and information for LGBT+ youth in South Yorkshire
Research for Sheffield-based charity Sheena Amos Youth Trust (SAYiT) exploring what services young LGBT+ people want to support them.