MPhil/PhD Sociology

Goldsmiths research in sociology covers a range of areas, including: art and literature; deviance; education; the sociology of governance and regulation; theories of industrial society; health, illness and psychiatry; interpersonal relations; knowledge; politics; ‘race’ and ethnicity; class; religion; values in society; childhood and youth culture; the body and society; social aspects of the life sciences and bio-medicine, science and technology; the expansion of capitalism on a world scale; urban studies; gender and the sexual division of labour; culture and communications. Goldsmiths Sociology has a long track record of funded research, with research funded by UK research councils, British Academy, European Union, and charities including Leverhulme, Wellcome and Joseph Rowntree. We are also in research collaboration with industry, local and national government and public bodies.