Social Issues Research Centre
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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.
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[edit] Organization and focus
SIRC has a ‘social intelligence’ unit, 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. [1]
[edit] Staff
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.
[edit] 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"[2]. SIRC also obtains funding in its own right.
