Social Justice Stories
Our research cuts across all aspects of social justice.
Exploring the interconnected life stories behind one of the UK's busiest foodbanks
The stories of foodbank users, volunteers and activists in their own words. Newcastle University, Northern Cultural Projects and Newcastle West End Foodbank.
Funding opportunities to explore social justice in the digital economy.
Designing and implementing technology to support social justice, fair opportunities and working conditions, and digital security for everyone.
Who can we trust? Investigating inequalities in access to social capital across Newcastle upon Tyne
A five-year research project exploring the differences in social life and social capital across different neighbourhoods of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Action for mental health: a new network partnering Newcastle University
A Mental Health Network funded by UKRI, working across academic disciplines to seek the best ways of helping children and young people and their families.
Individual rights under international law
Promoting global social justice: the issues of forcible displacement as a problem resulting from the fragmentation of international law.
Read more about Armed Conflict and Forcible Displacement.
What law and policy changes do we need to take economic and social rights seriously?
Looking at law and policy changes to ensure compliance with the economic and social rights granted by Article 22 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Recent research argues that the problem of human trafficking needs to be seen as one of inequality and structural marginalisation
A look at structural conditions, such as hardship and marginalisation, leading to human trafficking from Eastern Europe into the UK.
The search for social justice cultivates many forms of collective action
Cultural activism and youth collectives in Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Colombia bypass conventional and discredited political organisations.
Britain's social housing is in crisis
Provision of social housing reflects social injustice and inequality in the UK. Government policies accelerate problems of long waiting lists and homelessness.