PhD Applied Social and Economic Research

University of Essex

For our PhD Applied Social and Economic Research, we offer supervision in quantitative research in sociology and other social sciences. This involves the use of secondary data to answer socially relevant research questions and we offer supervision in: social stratification, social class and other forms of disadvantage social behaviour, beliefs and values occupational choice and mobility migration social change life cycle and biography social group identity sociology of education and family and socialization. Studying with us will open doors to an academic career for you, as well as to a professional life in government departments, international organisations and statistical institutions. Several of our PhD students now work at: Department of Economics, University of Chicago, USA Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia Department of Economics and Public Finance, University of Turin, Italy Department of Economics, University of Linz, Austria Centre for Research on Social Dynamics, Bocconi University, Italy Applied Microeconomics Research Unit, University of Minho, Portugal and School of Health Administration, Dalhousie University, Canada. We also offer an MPhil in this subject. Please note, part-time research study is also available.

Institute for Social and Economic Research