Social Policy Doctoral study

We welcome graduate students from across the world to apply for our unique DPhil in Social Policy. Doctoral research students are an important part of our academic community, and you will be fully involved and immersed in the life of one of the top-ranked Social Policy departments in the UK and across the world.

We are keen to hear from DPhil candidates who are interested in a wide range of areas of social policy research. These include:

• Family and family policies
• Theorisation and measurement of poverty
• Educational inequalities
• The role of policy, economic and social inequalities
• Health and social care
• Gender inequality
• Social mobility and inequality of opportunity
• Labour market institutions and policies
• Retirement and pension reforms
• Politics of welfare state reform
• The role of organised interest groups in social policy
• Social policy as a vehicle of development
• Public attitudes towards social policy issues

Your work using a range of methodologies and approaches is welcome. Comparative approaches are also welcome, including work comparing welfare systems in advanced economies in Europe and OECD countries, and study of social policy in other parts of the world.