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Welcome to the Sociology Department

Sociology at Lancaster is renowned for its creative and groundbreaking research. One of the most highly regarded departments in the world, Lancaster Sociology has played a central role in the emergence of this important field of academic study. The Department offers a full range of challenging undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and provides an intense and exciting research environment for research students, researchers and visiting scholars.

Undergraduate

We offer challenging undergraduate courses. You can study for a BA Hons in Sociology or combine it with a range of other subjects such as Criminology and Religious Studies.

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OPEN DAYS
This year our Open Days will be held on:
17th February, 27th February & 6th March 2010
Alternatively, you can sign up for a Campus Tour and contact us to pop into the department for a coffee and chat.

Research

The Department has been assessed by the UK’s official Research Assessment Exercise as being in the top 5 group of Departments for the quality of its sociological research with 85% of our submission ‘internationally significant’. Search our projects database to find out about our research activities or download publications.

Our centres of excellence include:

Science Studies (CSS)	Environmental Change (CSEC)
Mobilities Research(CeMoRe)	Gender and Women's Studies (GWS)

We also have close ties with:

Mediterranean Mobilities Network
ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen)
Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS)
Gender Equality Research Network International (GENIe)

Postgraduate

Follow these links for more information about our Masters and PhD study or if you are looking for a PhD supervisor please search our keyword database.

We also have various Funded PhD Opportunities available for 2009/10.

Latest News

Mobililties Journal - Prof. Steve Graham to deliver guest lecture at AAG 2010, 22 October 2009

We are very pleased to announce that Prof Steve Graham, University of Durhamwill deliver a guest lecture for Mobilities Journal at the 14-18 April 201 ...Read more»

Events

There are no events today, the next event will be:

24 November 2009, Sociology Seminar with Doreen Massey

PhD studentships Opportunities

8 new PhD studentships are being offered by the UK Transport Research Centre which has a node at Lancaster.

Further details

Publications

The department has published over 75 books in the past 5 years.

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What our staff say

Lancaster Sociology Summer Conference

1st-3rd July 2009

The Summer Conference was a great success. View the main pages for further updates.

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