Social Renewal
As a civic university with a world-wide reputation for academic excellence, Newcastle University is committed to addressing the great challenges of our age, asking the big questions and making a strong contribution to global debate.
Social renewal is one of three societal challenge themes and represents an area where Newcastle University has considerable experience and expertise.
We have adopted social renewal as the University's third societal challenge theme believing that rapid, multi-faceted change will offer radically new ways of considering and addressing entrenched societal problems and also, in the process, bring to the surface a whole set of new challenges for social cohesion.
As part of our societal theme, we are setting up the Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal and running a varied and exciting programme of events over the year.
Newcastle University's alumni magazine, Arches, asked graduates, students and staff what 'Social Renewal' means to them. Below is the response from Professor Nina Laurie. Professor Laurie's research in international development sees her working with Shakti Samuha, an organisation in Nepal comprising women who have been trafficked.
Hear more about what Social Renewal means to our other graduates, students and staff.