Undergraduate

When you take one of our exciting degree courses in Sociology , Media and Cultural Studies (which you can combine with a pathway in Gender and Women's Studies) you will be taught by the leading academics in these fields.

Flexible Study

Lancaster University’s distinctive degree system is extremely flexible in allowing you to change the course of your degree if your initial choice doesn’t suit your needs. Our three module first year system allows you to explore other academic subjects before you settle into your major/minor or combined degree for years 2 & 3. As long as you studied that subject in the first year, you can choose to pursue that alongside your major as a minor, change that subject to be your major, or the more popular choice is to move to a combined degree.

Find out more about the subjects we offer and what our students say.

Visit Us

If you receive a conditional offer you will be invited to a special department open day in February or March, but there are many other ways to visit the University before making an application. Please see here for all the ways Lancaster University and the Sociology department is accessible to you.

UG enquiries: sociology.admissions@lancaster.ac.uk

Our centres of excellence include:

Centre for Science Studies CSS	Centre for Environmental Change CSEC
Centre for Mobilities Research CeMoRe	Centre for Gender and Women's Studies GWS
Cultural Political Economy Research Centre CPERC	ESRC Centre for Economic & Social Aspects of Genomics
UNESCO Chair in Gender Research

We also have close ties with:
Mediterranean Mobilities Network
Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS)

Postgraduate

We have an amazing research culture for MA and PhD students, with 60 postgraduate students studying with us from around the world and a highly structured programme of research training. If you are looking for a PhD supervisor please visit our academic staff pages.

As part of the ESRC North West Doctoral Training Centre we offer a range of funding and training opportunites for MA and PhD level study in the area of Sociology, Media and Cultural Studies Gender and Women's Studies, Science and Technology Studies and Social Anthropology. From 2013 we will also offer AHRC scholarships for more humanities orientated students.

Postgraduate Drop in Sessions

Interested in postgraduate study? Talk to programme convenors, come to a research event, or visit the department. Find out more»

MA fees only funding opportunity for overseas students

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'. Follow these links for more information about current research projects and publications.

PG enquiries: spgadmissions@lancaster.ac.uk