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Doctor of Philosophy - PhD / DPhil
Main Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
3 Year
The PhD in Sociology is a three year full-time (six years part-time) programme. You will examine an important societal challenge of your choice, supervised by two members of staff who are experts in their specialised area of research. Our staff are experts, often internationally renowned, in a variety of key areas of sociology, and Centres such as the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE), the Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research , the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis , the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives , and the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) We provide a wealth of opportunities for postgraduate researchers. Our research fits into six key clusters : social inequality and stratification; race, ethnicity and migration; networks, relationality and everyday lives; social movements and protest; culture and consumption; methodological innovation. Recent PhDs have included topics as diverse as egg donation in Iran, branding in AIDs awareness advertising, and how class differences affect access to higher education.
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