Sociology - MA, PhD
University of KentCanterbury · IELTS 6.5
GBP 19,300Per year
- Level
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Duration
- 3 years full-time, 5 years part-time
- Mode
- Part-time
- Subject
- Social Policy
- Location
- United Kingdom
- IELTS
- 6.5 overall, no part below 5.5
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Overview
There are further details on the research activities and publications of individual members of staff and the School’s research units on the website. In addition to regular meetings with individual supervisors, all research students take a research training programme. The School has a long and distinguished history, and is one of the largest and most successful social science research communities in Europe. In the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, 100% of our Social work and social policy research was classified as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ for impact and environment. The School supports a large and thriving postgraduate community and in 2010 distributed in excess of £100,000 in Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) quota awards, and in University and SSPSSR bursaries and scholarships to new students. Colleagues specialise in research of international, comparative and theoretical significance, and we have collective strengths in the following areas: civil society, NGOs and the third sector; cross-national and European social policy; health, social care and health studies; work, employment and economic life; risk, ‘risk society’ and risk management; race, ethnicity and religion; social and public policy; sociology and the body; crime, culture and control; sociological theory and the culture of modernity.
Entry requirements
| Degree | 2:2 · Subjects: the social sciences · or above |
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English language requirements
| IELTS | 6.5 overall, no part below 5.5 |
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IELTS 6.5 overall, minimum 5.5 in each component
Fees
International students: £19,300 per year
UK students: £5,238 per year
Start dates
September, January
Application deadline
September intake
Campus
- Canterbury, United Kingdom
If you studied in United States
98 countriesUniversity of Kent has not published doctor of philosophy requirements for United States. See other levels
Scholarships at University of Kent
13 for this level- Chevening Scholarships
- Christine and Ian Bolt Scholarship
- Kent Business School Beaconhouse PG Progression Scholarship£6,000.00 (US$ 7,749)
- Kent Business School Dean's Excellence Scholarship Award
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Health surcharge, first year how it is chargedGBP 776
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