{"id":1397,"date":"2020-06-04T11:03:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T11:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/network\/test\/sustainable-housing-urban-studies-unit-shusu\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T18:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T17:26:06","slug":"sustainable-housing-urban-studies-unit-shusu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/care-shusu\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Housing &amp; Urban Studies Unit (SHUSU)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Established in 1996, SHUSU is a multidisciplinary research group at the University of Salford hosted within the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salford.ac.uk\/research\/research-centres\/centre-social-and-health-research-cshr\">Centre for Research on Inclusive Society<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salford.ac.uk\/school-health-society\">School of Health and Society<\/a>. We seek to understand complex social issues and work towards social justice and environmental sustainability. We engage in research that highlights the processes, outcomes and impacts of marginalisation on individuals and communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The work of SHUSU reflects the complex and interconnected social and environmental challenges faced by contemporary society. These challenges include ensuring fair access to housing, equitable welfare systems and services, population mobility, positive social relations within communities, ageing populations, environmental sustainability and inclusive growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our work is aligned with four work streams that unified by a core vision of working towards a more equitable and sustainable society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium size-large background--navy font-size--h5 font-weight--bold font-decoration\u2014none\"><a 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