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Research

Understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition

Most of the challenges of our time have been created by humans. To solve them, we need knowledge of both human behaviour and social and political institutions. Social science researchers strive to make sense of the world, create opportunities for change, and, ideally, prevent problems from arising in the first place.