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understand and expand social change

The Centre for Applied Social Research (CeASR) draws together researchers at Leeds Beckett University who seek to understand and enable social change. It provides a space to collaborate, generate knowledge, and communicate new work.

We see social research as essential for understanding the contemporary world and as playing a crucial role in guiding social change for the better. By working across disciplines and with diverse members of the local and global community we strive to enable conversations, collaborations, understanding and positive development. Experts in the fields of Politics and International Relations, Sociology, and Criminology contribute to our ongoing investigations and conversations. You can find out more about their work at our regular research events, via our social media channels, and in our newsletter with details for all of these below.

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 CeASR Joint Directors  Chris Till and Dr Waqas Tufail

At CeASR we seek to improve understanding of global society through encouraging new ideas and diverse perspectives. Our aim is to enable positive social change and challenge inequalities through empirical findings, critical analysis, collaboration and partnership.

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Dr Waqas Tufail

Reader / School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Dr Waqas Tufail is a Reader in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences. His teaching and research interests include policing, racism and anti-racism, Islamophobia/anti-Muslim racism and the racialisation and criminalisation of minority groups.

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research students 

Browse our recent research students, thesis titles and supervision team from across our three subjects, including criminology, politics and international relations, and sociology.

 Specialist subjects of discussion range from: social media and online peer relations, examining the perceptions and experiences of employees operating in public sector work environments, to the EU's role in workers rights' transformation in post-soviet states. 

Criminology students

  • Margot Avella

    Analysis of the behavioural features of serial rapists within the French context.
  • Kate Ismay

    How has the far right influenced British Identity in West Yorkshire?
  • Harry Podmore

    ‘Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) Among Transgender Individuals’.

politics and international relations students

  • Herbert Awour

    Paradox of Ambiguities and Messiness: State Institutions of Human Rights in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and the Lessons from Sri Lanka, Rwanda and Guatemala.
  • Christopher Anozie

    Managing International Development Aid in Nigeria; Challenges of Accountability.
  • Alexandra Platt

    “I just want Brexit done.... If I’m honest, Corbyn scares me a bit”: Representations of the ‘ordinary voter’ in broadcast media news during the 2019 British General Election campaign: the shaping of common sense and media.

sociology students

  • Christopher Allen

    Exploring the integration and use of non-dual consciousness in (relational) psychotherapy: an interpretative phenomenological analysis.
  • David Proctor

    Noise of the North: An Ethnographic Study of Scandinavian Noise Music Scenes.
  • Trevor Bamford

    The 1990’s UK Goth Underground: Resistance, Ritual, Class and Survival.
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