Research in ISS21 is conducted through interdisciplinary research clusters involving staff and postgraduate students from across a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, in the following areas (click on the menu links on the left for more information):

• Ageing
• Children and Young People
• Civil Society
• Crime and Social Justice
• Economy, Culture and Creativity
• Educating for the Professions
• Family, Gender and Sexualities
• Health, Food and Wellbeing
• Migration and Integration
• New Poverties, Social Justice and Human Rights
• Disability and Mental Health Working Group
• Quantitative Methods Working Group