The Department of Sociology at the University of Sussex is ranked sixth in the UK for research that is either internationally excellent or world-leading.
Sociology faculty are involved in three research centres at Sussex: the Centre for Social and Political Thought; the Centre for Research in Health and Medicine; and the Centre for Gender Studies. The Department also has an exceptionally wide range of intellectual interests, covering the main areas of sociology and interdisciplinary fields such as science and technology studies, European studies, race critical theory, gender studies and philosophy and methodology of social science. Major research projects have been conducted in the areas of intellectual migration, pharmaceuticals, gender and higher education and employment, and the sociology of time and consumption.
In addition to the academic value of our research, our work has fed into a number of public and policy debates: members of the Department have presented to and advised the United Nations, Parliamentary select committees and expert reference groups for the City Council, written briefings for policymakers and have worked on projects commissioned by government departments, private sector task forces and agencies such as the fire service.
Faculty publish widely, in top journals such as Sociology, The Sociological Review, The Americal Journal of Sociology, Social Studies of Science, Sociology of Health and Illness and Theory, Culture and Society and with major university presses and publishers such as Routledge, Sage and Polity.