Sociology and Social Policy

Entry requirements

For research degrees we expect candidates to normally hold a UK first degree in the first or upper second class, or a second class degree plus a Masters degree or equivalent, preferably in the Social Sciences.

Months of entry

Anytime

Course content

Staff have particular strengths in Critical social policy:- This addresses particular questions of welfare, health, state social work, poverty, inequality and social justice. Age, generation and life course analysis, childhood, youth and older age, are other strengths.

Research groups:

• Charity Law and Policy Unit
• Critical Approaches International Criminal Law
• EU Law@Liverpool
• European Children’s Rights Unit
• Health Law and Regulation Unit
• International Criminological Research Unit
• International Law and Human Rights Unit
• Liverpool Economic Governance Unit
• Publics & Practices