PhD Migration Studies

We offer high-quality supervision across a wide range of social and public policy areas seeking to research and examine causes and effects of global mobility.

Overview

There are further details on the research activities and publications of individual members of staff and the School’s research units on the website. In addition to regular meetings with individual supervisors, all research students take a research training programme.

About the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR)

The School has a long and distinguished history, and is one of the largest and most successful social science research communities in Europe. An impressive 94% of our research-active staff submitted to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, with 99% of the research submitted judged to be of international quality.

The School supports a large and thriving postgraduate community and in 2010 distributed in excess of £100,000 in Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) quota awards, and in University and SSPSSR bursaries and scholarships to new students.