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The results of the 2026 National Student Survey (NSS) have revealed the strengths of the School for Business and Society for the study of social work. We have excelled in the category of ‘Student Voice’.

Predicting whether a company's profits will rise or fall has long been one of the most notoriously difficult tasks in finance. Corporate earnings underpin trillions of dollars in market valuation, yet traditional forecasting models are routinely upended by economic shocks, shifting consumer tastes, and unexpected corporate crises.

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.