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Visiting Students and Academics

Sociology at Lancaster welcomes visitors from other institutions, at home or abroad, to learn, study and help create a collaborative intellectual community.

Visitors may be students (probably registered for a PhD or studying for an MA at another university), post-doctoral researchers or established members of the academic community. Different fee arrangements can be made to give visitors access to office space, computing and library facilities as well as the opportunity to meet our staff and students and join in with seminars workshops and other events. Find out more about Lancaster and what past visitors say about their experiences.

How to Apply

Academics

Please contact Rachel Verrall for details.

MA and PhD Students

If you are interested in visiting Sociology at Lancaster then we would encourage you to discuss this possibility informally with a staff member before submitting an application (this is not essential, but your application will need to be accepted by a staff member).

The foregoing does not include applications from SOCRATES/ERASMUS exchange students. For details of the exchange programme please visit Lancaster's Exchange pages.

To make an application you will need to send us the following documents electronically:

• A completed application form (available from Rachel Verrall)
• A current curriculum vitae.
• Photocopies Scanned copies of relevant academic degree certificates and transcripts (under certain circumstances we might ask for these to be validated).
• A covering letter explaining: a) what you hope to do while you are at Lancaster (courses to be attended, any individual supervision requests, research to be done, etc), b) the period when you hope to be here.
• Contact details of two referees who know your academic work. Once you submit your application form we will contact them directly for references to support your application. Please provide their email addresses where possible. Two letters of support from referees who know your academic work.
• For non-native English speakers only: documentation of your competence in English. This would usually be a TEOFL or IELTS certificate.

Once we have received these we will make a decision about your application as soon as possible.

Please note: You must not apply via the University on-line application system

If you are accepted, then please note that fees will apply pro-rata. Current fee levels are available are available from the Student Registry. The fees must be paid upon registration with the Postgraduate Office at the start of your visit.

Any questions you may have about the application process or coming to Lancaster please contact Rachel Verrall our Departmental Officer.

Once you are accepted you have all the rights and privileges of a postgraduate student at Lancaster including:

• Office space within the Department of Sociology
• the right to attend MA courses
• for visiting PhD students: you may be able to take Faculty Research Training Courses
• membership of and borrowing rights from the library
• an email account and access to networked computers
• the right to attend departmental seminars, colloquia and other activities.
• supervision by academic staff who has/have agreed to accept you.

Please note that if you wish to attend the MA and Faculty course modules you should time your visit so that it falls during the autumn and the spring terms when the majority of those modules are being taught. For further information please contact Rachel Verrall our Departmental Officer.

Further information can be found in our page for prospective Masters and PhD research students.

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