Collaboration & Partnerships
ICOSS promotes user engagement to shape new public policy initiatives through fostering relationships and developing collaborations between academia, industry, public and voluntary sectors.
We have developed collaborative research partnerships at international, national and local levels to explore critical social and policy issues and provide a more effective evidence-based response.
Collaborations within Sheffield
The Centre has links with other Social Science research centres and institutes based in Sheffield, including...
- Academy for Steel Construction
- Building Energy Analysis Unit (BEAU)
- Catchment Science Centre (CSC)
- Centre for Criminological Research (CCR)
- Centre for Gender Studies in Europe
- Centre for Health Information Management Research (CHIMR)
- Centre for Information Literacy Research (CILR)
- Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences (CILASS)
- Centre for International Policy Research (CIPR)
- Centre for Political Theory and Ideologies (CPTI)
- Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development (CREED)
- Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth (CSCY)
- Centre for the Study of Law in Society (CLIS)
- Centre for Well-being in Public Policy (CWIPP)
- Centre for Law in its International Context (CLIC)
- Institute for Commercial Law Studies (ICLS)
- National Institute of Chinese Studies
- National Institute of Japanese Studies
- Political Economy Research Centre (PERC)
- Centre for the Public Library and Information in Society (CPLIS)
- Public Services Academy (PSA)
- Sheffield Centre for International Drylands Research
- Sheffield Institute for Biotechnological Law and Ethics (SIBLE)
- Social Science Gender Research Network
- South East European Research Centre (SEERC)
- Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing (SISA)
- White Rose East Asia Centre (WREAC)
Other national and international collaborations
We are also building on current collaborations with:
- The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre
- NHS
- Health Authority Trusts
- Sheffield City Council
- South Yorkshire Police
- Home Office
- Department of Work and Pensions
- Department of Environment Rural Affairs
- Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
- Institute of Public Policy Research