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Welcome to the Sociology Department

One of the most highly regarded Sociology departments in the world, Lancaster Sociology is renowned for its groundbreaking research and teaching in the fields of Sociology, Media & Cultural Studies, Gender & Women's Studies, Science Studies and Social Anthropology. The Department offers a range of challenging undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and provides an intense and exciting learning and research environment for students, researchers and visiting scholars.

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.

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

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If you'd like to find out more about our degrees before you apply then why not visit us?

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Sixth Form Conference - Click here for further details.

Current Students Part II Module Options

Module options now available:
Sociology | Media & Cultural Studies

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

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 supervisor, visit our supervisors and academic staff pages.

Funding

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. From 2013 we will also offer AHRC scholarships for more humanities orientated students. Find out more about funding opportunities.

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

Intellectual Party: Lancaster Sociology Summer Conference 20131st &2nd July 2013
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Latest News

Silicon Valley or Hollywood?, 29 May 2013

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23 - 24 May 2013, Theorising Surfaces

Publications

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

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MA or MSc Environment, Culture and Society

New for 2013

An innovative and interdisciplinary degree for those who want to engage with global and local environmental problems.

In collaboration with the Lancaster Environment Centre LEC

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What our staff say

Bowland North, Lancaster University, LA1 4YT, UK | Tel: +44 (0) 1524 593148 Fax: +44 (0) 1524 594256 E-mail: sociology@lancaster.ac.uk

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