Social Issues Research Centre

Social Issues Research Centre

The Social Issues Research Centre (SIRC) is a non-profit think tank working on social and lifestyle issues. It is based in Oxford, but is not part of Oxford University.

Organization and focus

SIRC has asocial intelligenceunit, monitoring and assessing social, cultural and ideological trends. SIRC's approach has an anthropological and psychological rather than a sociological flavour.

The SIRC has played a central role in advising the government on the development of a "Code of Practice on Science and Health Communication" for communication science issues to the media, which has been criticised for promoting mainstream views and suppressing dissenting voices. [ [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Social_Issues_Research_Centre Social Issues Research Centre - SourceWatch ] ]

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The Advisory Board includes the social anthropologists Professor Lionel Tiger, Professor Dwight Heath and Professor Robin Fox.

Directors include
* Kate Fox. She has published on beauty & body image, the psychology of scent, pub behaviour, body language, etiquette, gossip, drugs, flirting, celebrations and stress.
* Peter Marsh - best known for work on football hooliganism and the connections between drinking and disorder.

Funding

SIRC is partly funded by income from MCM Research, "an Oxford-based company which specialises in applications of social science to real-world issues and problems" [ [http://www.mcmresearch.co.uk/ MCM - Front Page ] ] . SIRC also obtains funding in its own right.

References

External links

* [http://www.sirc.org Social Issues Research Centre]


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