36 monthsProgramme duration
32,600 GBPTuition Fee/year
30 Jun, 2027Application Deadline
Oct, May, FebStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Sociology
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PhD
Study Mode
On Campus
UCL Institute of Education (IOE) offers world-leading doctoral courses in education and related social science. As a MPhil/PhD in-person or distance learning student, you will undertake a research project, working closely with a supervisory team to develop each stage of your research. Supervision takes place in-person and online (for example, using UCL Teams/UCL Zoom and email).
The Social Research Institute is one of the largest multidisciplinary social science research and teaching centres in London. Our staff include sociologists, psychologists, social scientists and economists. We have research-active staff able to supervise research in our key areas of expertise.
Our expertise at the Social Research Institute covers the following specialising fields:
- Children’s rights and advocacy; childhood studies; child development; children in care; maternal and child health; reproductive health; health behaviours; health promotion
- Families; family formation; parenting; work and family life; fatherhood; motherhood; food practices
- Gender; sexualities and intimate lives
- Longitudinal analysis; cohort studies cross-cohort and international comparisons
- Lifecourse transitions; intergenerational studies; demography; youth and young adulthood
- Social inequalities; intergenerational and intragenerational social mobility
- Education; skills and employment; labour market behaviour
- Migration; transnational families; sociology of religion; culture and ethnicity
- Cultural and social psychology
- Political sociology and the study of social movements
- Advanced qualitative and quantitative methods; mixed methods and visual methods
- Systematic reviews of research evidence; study of how research evidence is used in policy, practice and decision making
- Time use research; time use data to study social life, gender, work/family balance, family and economics
You will also engage in research training courses and activities available from the IOE Research Training Programme, UCL Doctoral Skills Development Programme, the multi-institutional Bloomsbury Postgraduate Skills Network, and other sources. There are no residency requirements for distance learning students. The viva examination may take place in-person at UCL or online.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Sociology
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PhD
Study Mode
On Campus
UCL Institute of Education (IOE) offers world-leading doctoral courses in education and related social science. As a MPhil/PhD in-person or distance learning student, you will undertake a research project, working closely with a supervisory team to develop each stage of your research. Supervision takes place in-person and online (for example, using UCL Teams/UCL Zoom and email).
The Social Research Institute is one of the largest multidisciplinary social science research and teaching centres in London. Our staff include sociologists, psychologists, social scientists and economists. We have research-active staff able to supervise research in our key areas of expertise.
Our expertise at the Social Research Institute covers the following specialising fields:
- Children’s rights and advocacy; childhood studies; child development; children in care; maternal and child health; reproductive health; health behaviours; health promotion
- Families; family formation; parenting; work and family life; fatherhood; motherhood; food practices
- Gender; sexualities and intimate lives
- Longitudinal analysis; cohort studies cross-cohort and international comparisons
- Lifecourse transitions; intergenerational studies; demography; youth and young adulthood
- Social inequalities; intergenerational and intragenerational social mobility
- Education; skills and employment; labour market behaviour
- Migration; transnational families; sociology of religion; culture and ethnicity
- Cultural and social psychology
- Political sociology and the study of social movements
- Advanced qualitative and quantitative methods; mixed methods and visual methods
- Systematic reviews of research evidence; study of how research evidence is used in policy, practice and decision making
- Time use research; time use data to study social life, gender, work/family balance, family and economics
You will also engage in research training courses and activities available from the IOE Research Training Programme, UCL Doctoral Skills Development Programme, the multi-institutional Bloomsbury Postgraduate Skills Network, and other sources. There are no residency requirements for distance learning students. The viva examination may take place in-person at UCL or online.
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