UCP Sociology

What a day!

Yesterday we hosted our second annual Social Science Alumni Networking Event at Park Crescent Campus, and it was everything we hoped it would be and more.

Alumni came back from across our Sociology, Psychosocial Studies and Criminology programmes, many of them originally arriving at University Centre Peterborough through Health and Social Care, A-Levels and Access to HE routes. One of our alumni graduated over ten years ago. Seeing them all in the same room, catching up, swapping stories and making new connections, was fantastic.

We heard talks from alumni working across mental health nursing, social work, UX design, the probation service, the civil service, education, the NHS and beyond. Several spoke about continuing their studies after graduating, including those now doing Masters degrees and PhDs. The range of paths on show was remarkable, and the conversations that followed were even better.

Our current students joined us too, and you could see the impact it had on them in real time.

We are already looking forward to the next one!

UCP Psychosocial Studies

We're flooded with content 24/7, but more information doesn't automatically mean more understanding.

Knowing how to read the media, spot who's behind the message, and question what's being left out? That's not a bonus skill. That's survival.

Sociology gives you the tools to do exactly that. To look past the noise, understand how power shapes the stories we're told, and think critically about the world as it actually is, not as it's packaged for us.

In a world where misinformation spreads faster than facts, that kind of thinking matters more than ever.

Study Sociology in Peterborough. Two days a week, small classes, passionate and genuinely innovative teaching, and a community where you'll feel like you actually belong.

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He wrote 1000 pages about this exact moment.

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Today is Stephen Lawrence Day.

Stephen Lawrence was an 18-year-old Black British teenager murdered in a racially motivated attack in Eltham, south-east London, on 22 April 1993. He had ambitions of becoming an architect. The Macpherson Report, published in 1999, identified institutional racism within the Metropolitan Police as central to the failures in his case and changed the course of British public life.

The Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation works from the belief that talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not. It channels Stephen's legacy into practical action, supporting young people from marginalised backgrounds through education, careers, and community, and opening doors that remain closed for too many. [https://stephenlawrenceday.org]

On the Sociology degree at UCP, we study exactly the kinds of issues Stephen's case brought to national attention: institutional racism, structural inequality, and the ways society too often fails its most marginalised young people. These aren't abstract theories; they're questions with real consequences, and asking them is the first step towards changing things.

If you're interested in studying topics like these, race, power, inequality, and justice, come and find out more about our Social Science courses at UCP. Link in bio.

In 1967, Kathrine Switzer entered the Boston Marathon as K.V. Switzer — not to make a political statement, but simply because she wanted to run.
Two miles in, race official Jock Semple jumped from a press bus, grabbed her by the shirt, and screamed: "Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers!"
She kept running. "If I quit that race, nobody would've believed women deserved to be there. I'm going to finish this race on my hands and my knees if I have to."
The Boston Marathon didn't admit women until 1972. (New York Road Runners) She'd already proved the point.

We are live! Open Event starting now. Come on down to UCP at Park Crescent and have a chat with us.

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