该系的研究活动集中于五个主要研究主题，我们围绕这些主题组织研究人员和研究生研究人员的研究小组，以分享和发展研究思想和实践。这些小组目前是：社区和社会正义。高等教育与不平等。暴力与虐待。健康。海侵休闲。儿童福祉，儿童权利和儿童虐待，收养，寄养和寄宿儿童保育，残疾，心理健康和老年，绿色社会工作，灾后社会工作，职业道德，服务使用者参与，社区发展社会变革，全球化和国际社会工作。
The Department's research activity focuses on four main research themes, around which we organise research groups of staff and postgraduate researchers to share and develop research ideas and practices. Child well-being, children's rights and child mistreatment, adoption, fostering, and residential child care, disability, mental health and older age, green social work, post-disaster social work, professional ethics, service user involvement, community development and social change, globalisation and international social work.