Provides high quality research training in a lively intellectual atmosphere
- Promotes students? professional involvement in academic life
- Enables students to make a contribution to the advancement of knowledge in sociology
- Enables students to make a contribution to the understanding and well being of contemporary societies

 

By the end of their time as a research postgraduate student in the Department it is our goal that students will:

- Have completed a thesis which is a high quality piece of original sociological analysis and is at least partly publishable in a peer-reviewed academic outlet
- Have developed and demonstrated a significant level of skill in at least one methodology of sociological research and analysis
- Have a broad knowledge of a number of sub-fields within sociology
- Have had the opportunity to develop teaching and administrative skills and experience