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Phone: +44 (0) 131 651 1560/3064
Email: pgadmissions.sps@ed.ac.uk; Hugo Gorringe (Postgraduate Advisor)
Phone: +44 (0)131 650 3940
Email: h.gorringe@ed.ac.uk; Address: Graduate School of Social and Political Science
Chrystal Macmillan Building
15a George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9LD

Entry requirements

International students

All applicants must meet our general entry and language requirements. Detailed advice for international students is available here:

Research profile

Edinburgh Sociology is one of the premier research units in the United Kingdom, as indicated by its excellent rating in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. We have a long-standing commitment to original empirical and theoretical work on society, and to the production of cultural and scientific knowledge. We work closely with other colleagues in the School of Social and Political Science and supervise many cross-disciplinary projects.

Applications are particularly welcome from students wishing to specialise in:

auto/biography and narrative studies;
comparative sociology;
South Asian studies;
Southern Africa;
family and intimate relations;
innovation in genomics;
medical sociology;
health and illness;
nationalism studies;
constitutional change and governance;
social studies of finance and markets;
social, cultural and feminist theory;
gender, inequality and social stratification;
work, consumption and organisations;
Scottish society and politics;
science and technology studies.

Training and support

Students work with a supervisor on an original research dissertation and participate in advanced sociology research-training workshops, work-in-progress seminars and the writing workshop.

The Graduate School provides a suite of ESRC recognised research training courses for social-science students across the University.

We have begun to develop an exciting package of flexible web-based training courses in line with the increased emphasis on ongoing advanced training throughout the course of doctoral studies.

Facilities

All research students have access to office space and networked computers.

Funding

Includes Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) quota and competition awards. We are AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) recognised and have access to AHRC national competition awards.

Please see Scholarships and Student Funding Services for other funding opportunities:

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This article was published on Apr 25, 2013