Key facts about postgraduate study in the Department of Sociology and Criminology

Our taught postgraduate courses include MA in Gender Studies, MA in Criminology and MSc in Social Research Methods.

Our courses have been developed to help you enrich your learning experience and equip you with the skills needed for employment or further research.

We also welcome applications to study for a PhD in Sociology or Gender Studies. We are especially interested if your research topic focuses on the one of the following areas: Gender politics and society, health, medicine and care, criminology, transgression and violence, social theory, culture and identity or political sociology, migration and human rights.

Join a vibrant, multicultural department. Our students and faculty come from a diversity of backgrounds, and their perspectives and knowledge enrich student studies. Former students have been drawn to academic studies from fields such as the media, policy, non-governmental organisations, teaching, the civil service, the arts and trade unions, and have gone onto to work in these areas or to jobs in higher education.

Benefit from our close links with research centres at Sussex, including the Centre for Gender Studies, Centre for Innovation in Research in Childhood and Youth, Centre for Migration Research and Centre for Global Health Policy.