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Open Days 2025
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Student graduation success
SSP students celebrate graduating from our Masters and PhD programmes this winter.
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Our Masters degrees
Study in our vibrant and inclusive community to develop new skills with a Masters degree in the School of Sociology and Social Policy.
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Research and expertise
Learn more about our pioneering research making a difference in society.
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Welcome from the Head of School
I look forward to working with past, present and future students and staff to support and develop our vibrant, inclusive and diverse community.
At the School of Sociology and Social Policy, we are committed to maintaining and building our school as a safe, respectful and opportunity-rich space for all that is alive with ideas, and that is a touchstone, nationally and internationally, for innovative, impactful sociological research and teaching.
Study with us
We're living in times of dramatic social, political and economic change, nationally, internationally and globally. Studying a social science degree couldn't be more exciting or timely.
Our reputation
Top 15
in the UK for social policy
The Complete University Guide, 2025
Top 20
in the UK for sociology and social policy
The Guardian University League Tables 2024
Top 15
in the UK for sociology
QS World Rankings by Subject 2023
Top 15
in the UK for social policy
The Complete University Guide, 2025
Top 20
in the UK for sociology and social policy
The Guardian University League Tables 2024
Top 15
in the UK for sociology
QS World Rankings by Subject 2023
Our research and expertise
Since its foundation, the School of Sociology and Social Policy has been a major centre of research and graduate training, and has produced some of the leading academic figures in their fields. The School is home to several distinctive research groups and centres, specialising in the broad areas of: gender, disability studies, racism and ethnicity, family and life course, health technologies and social and political thought.
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Upcoming events
Hong Kongers, Ukrainians and the coloniality of migration and citizenship: new humanitarian visas and the making of ‘good migrants’ for ‘Global Britain’
Social Sciences Building, seminar rooms 12.21 and 12.25 | 12:30 - 13:45
Sociology for the Climate Crisis: Speculation, Fiction, Futures
Social Sciences Building, seminar rooms 12.21 and 12.25 | 12:30 - 13:45
Autonomy and intimacy in young adult-parent relationships, across generations (hosted by FLaG)
Social Sciences Building, seminar rooms 12.21 and 12.25 | 12:15 - 13:45
Book launch: Realist Evaluation: Principles and Practice
Social Sciences Building, seminar rooms 12.21 and 12.25 | 12:30 - 13:45