Ragged University as a project is aiming to develop a holistic understanding on the environments we populate and problems we encounter. Here are some of the aspects of sociology which have been raised as important:

• A Personal Account of Poverty in the United Kingdom: Entrenched Difficulty and Tenacious Myths
• A Vigorous Renaissance of Social Value by David Seagrave
• A Word For The Social Model of Madness: Psychiatry and The Family by Alex Dunedin
• Action Research: Outcomes and Measures Executive Summary and Recommendations
• Action Research: Outputs, Outcomes and the Political Setting
• Action Research: The Outcomes Star and Developing Novel Methodologies
• Action Research: The Situation I am In; The View From The Other Side
• An Interview With A Development Worker: Shahid Khan
• An Interview With Dr Tuppy Owens; Human capabilities and supporting disabled people with their sexual lives
• Are Scottish Prisons Fit For Purpose: Transcript and Podcast of Panel Discussion
• Barriers to Participation in an Economy: Monopoly, Bureaucracy and Opportunity
• Biases In Psychology Which Affect How People’s Intellectual Contribution Is Valued; Implicit and Explicit Bias
• Biases In Psychology Which Affect How People’s Intellectual Contribution Is Valued; Prejudicial and Biased Reasoning as Illogical and Irrational
• Biases In Psychology Which Affect How People’s Intellectual Contribution Is Valued; Behavioural Reactions to Dissonance and Confirmation Bias
• Binaries, Young Carers and The Barriers to Accessing Higher Education
• Britain’s Living Legacy of Racism and Prejudice: A Narrative and Review of Policy Recommendations
• Class, Opportunity and the Lesser Minds Problem; A Ragged University Response
• Collaboration and Distinguishing the Selfish from Self Interest
• Conference: Inequalities in Historical Perspective
• Development as Freedom: The Human Capabilities Approach
• Development with Dignity; New Perspectives By Shahid Khan
• Disappearing Social Spaces and The Third Place
• Disaster Capitalism and War on Drugs: An Interview With Antony Loewenstein and Q+A Session at Recovering Justice
• Discrete Correspondences: Student Support Services On Zero Hours Contracts
• Edinburgh FareShare Food Collection by Christopher Somerville
• Education as Human Development
• Education, Training and Applied Economics: A Digest
• Education, Utopia, Necessity, and Existential Poverty
• Education, Welfare and Economics: A Human Capabilities View
• Employment Support Allowance: Over 100,000 Claims Closed Following Death of Claimants
• Ethnocentrism and Country of Origin Effects: Ethnocentrism and Consumers by Doreen Soutar
• Experiences of Food Poverty in Brighton and Hove by Samuel Lindskog
• Experiences of Food Poverty: Contents and Bibliography by Samuel Lindskog
• Experiences of Food Poverty: Literature Review by Samuel Lindskog
• Experiences of Food Poverty: Methods of Study by Samuel Lindskog
• Experiences of Food Poverty: Results and Discussion by Samuel Lindskog
• Great Educator: Emile Durkheim 1858 to 1917
• Great Educator: Ivan Illich and Deinstitutionalising Society
• Great Educator: John Pounds 1766 to 1839
• Great Educator: Thomas Guthrie and the Ragged Schools
• Great Educator: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois 1868 to 1963
• Green Spaces And The ‘Good’ Citizen by Susan Brown
• Helping With Mum: Barriers to Accessing Higher Education
• Historical Source: Medication Into Submission; A Review of Mental Seduction and Menticide by Alex Dunedin
• How Financial Speculation is Artificially Inflating Staple Food Prices
• How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Wellbeing by Prof Kate Pickett & Prof Richard Wilkinson
• Human Development and Opportunity Costs
• Impoverishment, Downsourcing and Buying Your Way Out: Action Research in Context
• Informal Public Life And The Urban Agenda
• Information Inequalities and Cultural Life: University of Manchester Policy Week Nov 2014
• Inspector Rosenhan Visits The Asylum
• Intellectual Property: History, Public Domain and Ideas by Alex Dunedin
• Interview with an Activist: Mike Cormack and Welfare Reforms
• Investigating Attitudes Towards Aspects of Welfare Reform by Stephen McMurray
• John Morrison: Pop Up Lesson in Summerhall
• Joseph Stiglitz Talks About Creating A Learning Society
• Justice Through The Looking Glass: Class and the Corruption of Law by Unsound Robin
• Kintsugi: Learning To Love The Critical
• Knowledge, Opportunities and False Promises
• Making a Prison Film: Injustice by Unsound Robin
• Manchester Medical Mission Affiliates to Charter Street Ragged School by Simon Ward
• Methodologies of Participation: Shared Anthropology, Corporate Parenting and Care Experience by John Morrison Part Two
• Natural Monopoly, Essential Goods and Regulation
• On Mutual Recognition by Richard Gunn
• Outcomes and Measurements Project: Interview with Colin MacLean
• Outcomes and Measurements Project: Interview with Glenn Liddall
• Podcast and Annotated Transcript: I Daniel Blake – The Benefit Cuts Debate with Jeane Freeman MSP Social Security Minister, Paul Laverty Screenwriter, and others
• Podcast and transcript: Social Security Reform Panel with Ben MacPherson MSP, Alison Johnson MSP, Mike Vallance
• Podcast: Classificatory Struggles; Class, Culture and Inequality in Neoliberal Times by Dr Imogen Tyler
• Podcast: Professor Beverley Skeggs talks about Exploitation, Domination, Dispossession and Devaluation
• Poverty and Social Exclusion in Britain: Research and Resources
• Preface: A Social and Environmental Philosophy by Kenneth Wilson
• Public Places Where We Meet And Share Are Third Places
• Ragged University as a model of education: Power differentials and problems of scale
• Rationality, Religion and Modernity Part A: A Social and Environmental Philosophy by Kenneth Wilson
• Rest In Pieces: The Competition Commission
• Security, Privacy, Information and Surveillance Discussion by Prof William Webster, Prof Charles Raab and Dr Andrew Neil
• Social Capital and Pierre Bourdieu: A Digest
• Social Justice Issues and the Valuation of People as Knowledgeable
• Sociological Barriers to Community Engagement with Higher Education Institutions
• Tackling Income Inequality: Local Government Pay Policies by Benjamin Irvine
• The Cooperative Development of Julian Edge: A Digest, Notes and Reflections by Alex Dunedin
• The Corporate Takeover of Education
• The Differences Arise In Group Psychology
• The Energy Companies Wear No Clothes
• The Environmental and Social Costs of Inequality by Benjamin Irvine
• The Great Good Place: A Digest
• The History of Adult Learning Project in Edinburgh: A Freirean Approach
• The Importance of Spaces To Meet People
• The Issues of Patronage and Seeking Patronage: A Thought Experiment in Response
• The Medium is the Means: The Industrial-Educational Complex
• The Pornography of Benefits Street; Comments on Classificatory Struggles: Class, Culture and Inequality in Neoliberal Times by Prof Sarah Green
• The Porous University, Socialisation and Reflections
• The Production of Scarcity and Famine
• The Sociology of Education: A Durkheimian View
• Thinking In Complex Ways And Development On Our Own Doorstep
• Trouble in Paradise: ‘Positive Prison ? Positive Futures…’; An Interview with Pete White
• Twas The Rant Before Christmas… What Makes The COOCs Initiative Succeed Where Others Fail
• Unpacking Positives: International Panel on Climate Change Special Report 1.5 Degrees by Prof Kevin Anderson
• Welfare Reforms and United Nations Report: Grave and Systematic Violations of Human Rights by UK Government
• Why Is Everyone Not A Demographic ? by Alex Dunedin
• Why Not To Chase Wealth And Status: A Community Project Perspective
• Widening Participation: Power, Knowledge and Silence; A Digest
• Working Men’s Clubs and Education by Dr Ruth Cherrington
• ‘Future Shock’: The Crisis of Relationships Between Body, Mind and Environment by Anne Fernie