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The Scottish Child Payment (SCP) is successfully reducing child poverty and food insecurity, according to a major new study, featuring researchers from the University of York.

A University of York professor has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for an ambitious, multi-year project that aims to rewrite the history of risk by tracing how global firms have acted as 'risk laboratories' across seven centuries and four continents.

Three new collaborative projects designed to address key challenges in the region including housing, wealth inequality and youth unemployment have been announced by the University of York.

York is ranked 4th in the UK for Social Work, 8th in the UK for Social Policy and 13th for Marketing in the latest release of the Complete University Guide league tables (2027).

The University of York and NatWest have officially opened a new business Accelerator Hub to help support local startups, student entrepreneurs, and academic innovators.

More than 100 years after Seebohm Rowntree’s landmark study of poverty and social life in York, researchers are once again using pubs to reassess the city’s social fabric.

Two leading academics are preparing to take up secondments to the University of York Mumbai to establish new partnerships and support new degree programmes.

York placed 8th in the UK and =38th in the world for the study of Social Policy and Administration in the latest release of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, 2026.