Social Policy and Social Justice

Award Award	Duration Duration	Start dates Start dates	Application Application
PhD (MPhil also available) PhD (MPhil also available)	Full-time: 3–4 years Part-time: 6–8 years Full-time: 3–4 years Part-time: 6–8 years	February and October February and October	January to April January to April

Social policy and social justice research area brings together expertise on inequalities, policy processes and approaches, globalisation, justice and different forms of justice, welfare state, and state-led institutions. Our research is socially and policy-relevant, and we have a strong reputation for methodological innovation in qualitative mixed-methods research, visual methods, discourse analysis and ethnography:

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Many staff are members of the Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative (HERC); Innovation, Knowledge and Development (IKD); and Global Challenges and Social Justice Research Centre (GCSJ). Research students are encouraged to participate in the supportive and collegial research culture in the discipline.

Minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent). If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your knowledge of English.

Many staff are members of the Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative (HERC); Innovation, Knowledge and Development (IKD); and Global Challenges and Social Justice research centre (GCSJ). Research students are encouraged to participate in the supportive and collegial research culture in the discipline.

We are open to receiving proposals on a wide range of research projects on this broad topic.

This theme encompasses most department academic staff members. The departmental website gives the main areas of research expertise of academic staff, as well as links to their personal webpages and research publications.

UK fee UK fee	International fee International fee
Full-time: £5,006 per year Full-time: £5,006 per year	Full-time: £12,705 per year Full-time: £12,705 per year
Part-time: £2,503 per year Part-time: £2,503 per year	Part-time: £6,353 per year Part-time: £6,353 per year

Some of our research students are funded via the The Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership; others are self-funded.

For detailed information about fees and funding, visit Fees and studentships.

To see current funded studentship vacancies across all research areas, see Current studentships.

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