Our PhD programmes offer you a combination of taught courses in the first year and careful supervision throughout your study, with the aim of helping you to produce a thesis that makes a significant and original contribution to the discipline.
We take care to match you with a suitable supervisor, and welcome applications to work in a wide variety of areas. Joint supervision, both between staff within the Department, and with staff in other departments, is possible in some cases.
All research students have regular meetings with their supervisors. PhD students also have annual panel meetings to support and review progress. We encourage you to give conference papers and to publish your work.
Sociology at Birmingham has a thriving research culture with staff publishing and supervising graduate students in the following areas:
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Critical Theory
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Feminist Theory
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Gender and the Family
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Philosophy of the Social Sciences
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Political Sociology
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Post-Colonialism and Ethnicity
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Religion and Faith
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Social Theory
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Status and Celebrity
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Technology and Culture