PhD

Our PhD students benefit from a dynamic research environment and a strong focus on research training.

There are different options of study:

• 3-4 years full-time PhD
• 5-7 years part-time PhD

We offer supervision on a range of research themes, representing the School’s main areas of expertise, as well as opportunities for interdisciplinary research. We encourage applications in the following areas:

• Children and young people
• Crime, security and justice
• Culture, interaction and everyday life
• Education, skills and labour markets
• Inequalities, division and diversity
• Knowledge, learning and pedagogy
• Science, technology and risk

Funding may be available for your PhD through a studentship.

We are delighted to be part of the Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Each year we are able to offer a number of ESRC funded awards within the following ESRC pathways:

• Criminology and Law
• Digital Economy and Society
• Education
• Social Care, Social Work, and Social Policy
• Sociology & Science and Technology Studies

Some of these studentships are funded in partnership with public, private and third sector organisations. As part of the WGSSS funding opportunities there is provision to follow a PhD programme that involves a one-year MSc in Social Sciences Research Methods , followed by 3 years of PhD research.

Explore all current funding available through our postgraduate funding pages.

The facilities are fantastic and we as PhD students are treated like part of the academic community and given a nice space in which to work. The experience has been refreshing because we are given enough freedom to work in the way which suits us best but enough guidance to keep us on track.