Social Sciences MPhil PhD

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Overview

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PhD via MPhil

MPhil PhD Social Sciences, home applicant, full time

  • Home Applicant
  • Full time, 3 years
  • Pound 6020 per year

MPhil PhD Social Sciences, home applicant, part time

  • Home Applicant
  • Part time, 5 years
  • Pound 3010 per year

MPhil PhD Social Sciences, international applicant, full time

  • International Applicant
  • Full time, 3 years
  • Pound 16100 per year

MPhil PhD Social Sciences, international applicant, part time

  • International Applicant
  • Part time, 5 years
  • Pound 8050 per year

PhD via MPhil

MPhil PhD Social Sciences, home applicant, full time

  • Home Applicant
  • Full time, 3 years
  • Pound 6020 per year

MPhil PhD Social Sciences, home applicant, part time

  • Home Applicant
  • Part time, 5 years
  • Pound 3010 per year

MPhil PhD Social Sciences, international applicant, full time

  • International Applicant
  • Full time, 3 years
  • Pound 16100 per year

MPhil PhD Social Sciences, international applicant, part time

  • International Applicant
  • Part time, 5 years
  • Pound 8050 per year

PhD via MPhil

MPhil PhD Social Sciences, home applicant, full time

  • Home Applicant
  • Full time
  • Pound 6320 per year
2025 applications TBC

MPhil PhD Social Sciences, home applicant, part time

  • Home Applicant
  • Part time
  • Pound 3160 per year
2025 applications TBC

MPhil PhD Social Sciences, international applicant, full time

  • International Applicant
  • Full time
  • Pound 16900 per year
2025 applications TBC

MPhil PhD Social Sciences, international applicant, part time

  • International Applicant
  • Part time
  • Pound 8450 per year
2025 applications TBC

What makes this course different

Great facilities

Study in our modern, multi-million facilities and buildings in our Stratford campuses.

London location

Our historic Stratford campus is located in one of the best-connected areas of London: close to Stratford's thriving town centre.

Industry links

The School has a growing network of partnerships and we are committed to extending learning, research and creative practice through partnership and collaboration.

Course modules

Your future career

Your future career

Explore the different career options you can pursue with this degree and see the median salaries of the sector on our Career Coach portal.

How we support your career ambitions

We offer dedicated careers support, and further opportunities to thrive, such as volunteering and industry networking. Our courses are created in collaboration with employers and industry to ensure they accurately reflect the real-life practices of your future career and provide you with the essential skills needed. You can focus on building interpersonal skills through group work and benefit from our investment in the latest cutting-edge technologies and facilities.

Career Zone

Our dedicated and award-winning team provide you with careers and employability resources, including:

  • Online jobs board for internships, placements, graduate opportunities, flexible part-time work.
  • Mentoring programmes for insight with industry experts 
  • 1-2-1 career coaching services 
  • Careers workshops and employer events 
  • Learning pathways to gain new skills and industry insight

Mental Wealth programme

Our Professional Fitness and Mental Wealth programme which issues you with a Careers Passport to track the skills you’ve mastered. Some of these are externally validated by corporations like Amazon and Microsoft.

Our Mental Wealth programme

We are careers first

Our teaching methods and geographical location put us right up top

  • Enterprise and entrepreneurship support 
  • We are ranked 6th for graduate start-ups 
  • Networking and visits to leading organisations 
  • Support in starting a new business, freelancing and self-employment 
  • London on our doorstep

What you'll learn

You will need to submit a research proposal.

Research proposals give us a better understanding of the area you want to study for an MPhil, or PhD via MPhil or PhD Direct course.

You don't have to follow a predetermined structure when writing your proposal, but it's a good idea to include a title that describes the aims and scope of your research and information on how your ideas fit in with the research interests of UEL.

Other important elements include relevant academic literature, how your research will advance knowledge in this area and a possible methodology. You should also include a timescale for your research.

To find out more about how to write your research proposal, see our research proposal guidance.

How you'll learn

The department has two main areas of research: social work and social policy; and sociology. 

Social work and social policy research includes international human rights; applying practice-near research in social work; using new media technology to help people with learning disabilities; performance evaluation of community-based research; and applying geo-information and numerical simulation to crime, health and social policy.

The sociology strand includes active research on anthropology, political economy, social psychology and psychoanalysis, international development, politics, refugee, urban and gender studies. 

How you will be assessed

You will be assessed on your research throughout the course.

Campus and facilities

Water Lane, Stratford

Who teaches this course

This course is delivered by School of Childhood and Social Care

The teaching team includes qualified academics, practitioners and industry experts as guest speakers. Full details of the academics will be provided in the student handbook and module guides.