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Global Social Challenges<\/h1>\n

Global Social Challenges is a year one course unit for social science students at The University of Manchester. Students are learning about a number of key challenges \u2013 including climate change, terrorism and global inequality \u2013 that affect everyone.<\/p>\n

They also learn how a sociological perspective can illuminate the causes, impacts and possible solutions to these urgent issues. Mainstream media commentaries on such topics often lack an appreciation of social context in understanding these problems and evaluating solutions, so students will also be encouraged to use the knowledge they gain to inform public debate. This is inspired by the idea of \u2018public sociology\u2019 (see, e.g., the\u00a0Discover Society<\/a>\u00a0blog) as well as evidence-based news websites such as\u00a0The Conversation<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0OpenDemocracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Students have written short blog posts that demonstrate the impact of social scientific thinking on their understanding of current social challenges. The purpose of this website is to share the best student work, encouraging our students to become public sociologists from year one. Each year, the Sociology department awards prizes for Best Blog and two Runners Up prizes \u2013 read all\u00a0the prize-winning articles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Global Social Challenges is convened by Maisie Tomlinson.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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