Social Policy PhD

Social Policy has been taught in Edinburgh for more than a century, and we have a rich tradition of supervising students towards higher degrees as a route to careers in academia, social research and public policy.<br/><br/>Today our group is at the heart of the scholarly community in social policy in Scotland and the UK, but also resolutely turned towards the wider world.<br/><br/>Our highly regarded research draws on a variety of disciplinary perspectives and is methodologically diverse, spanning the full range of social science methods from action research to advanced quantitative approaches. <br/><br/>We are committed to scholarly advancement but also to the dissemination of our work beyond the academy to generate non-academic impact and effect social change.<br/><br/>We offer postgraduate supervision across the whole subject range, with particular expertise in:<br/><br/><br/>* social security<br/><br/><br/>* labour market policy<br/><br/><br/>* health policy<br/><br/><br/>* children and young people<br/><br/><br/>* education policy<br/><br/><br/>Our cross-cutting areas of expertise include:<br/><br/><br/>* comparative and international social policy<br/><br/><br/>* knowledge and policy<br/><br/><br/>* the governance of welfare states<br/><br/><br/>**Who this programme is for**<br/><br/>We welcome doctoral students wanting to undertake advanced research on social problems and policy and practice responses to them locally, nationally and globally. <br/><br/>We especially encourage those seeking to do research projects closely aligned with our core research themes which you can find on our website.