PhD Sociology in Newcastle United Kingdom | Newcastle University

Enhance your expertise and thoughtfully examine key societal challenges through our PhD in Sociology programs.
You'll become part of a dynamic, collaborative community of top sociologists. This stimulating setting fosters the development of your research concepts and enables significant scholarly contributions both within our field and more broadly. Our Sociology PhD program empowers students to investigate contemporary social questions and discussions. You'll gain chances to perform original theoretical and applied research that meets rigorous global benchmarks.

Newcastle boasts a team of actively researching faculty spanning diverse Sociology and Social Anthropology specialties. We maintain robust cross-disciplinary connections, especially with anthropology, health studies, geography, and political science. Newcastle's research is internationally recognized for its excellence, with notable influence on policy and practical applications.
Our doctoral candidates have produced groundbreaking studies across numerous subjects:
including ethnographic research on post-crisis economic recovery to investigations of human trafficking and self-injury
from analyses of higher education and job market challenges to studies of LGBTQ+ family structures
from examinations of women's roles in African and Middle Eastern cultures to emerging spiritual movements in post-communist Europe
from exploring how social class influences eating habits to documenting immigrant community experiences.