在社会科学学院内，我们的城镇和区域规划学者与我们的建筑学者一起，根据理论和实践，地方主义与国际，概要性观点和专业之间的吉德式对话，共享一种精神。当前的研究包括以下方面的工作：零碳建筑和能源网络，建筑物的环境性能，区域的环境评估，规划，可持续的场所营造和社区参与，社会流动性和空间不平等，城市文化与社会，城市理论，历史和主观性，景观中的建筑设计。
Within the School of Social Sciences, our town and regional planning academics join our architecture academics in sharing an ethos based upon Geddesian dialogues between theory and practice, localism and the international, the synoptic view and specialism. Current research includes work on the following: zero carbon building and energy networks, the environmental performance of buildings, the environmental assessment of regions, planning, sustainable place-making and community engagement, social mobilities and spatial inequalities, urban culture and society, urban theory, history and subjectivities, building design in the landscape.