社会科学博士（DSocSci）是一个专业博士学位，旨在应对专业工作场所中发生的快速变化，这些变化对行业专业人员提出了要求，要求他们升级其资格。DSocSci与博士学位不同。论文组成部分的单词限制可能比博士学位论文更严格，并且应侧重于专业实践的问题，例如社会科学方面的政策分析和建议，或这些论文附带创造性作品时的批判释义。重大创意项目的确切性质将取决于招收学生所在部门的学科规范。申请人必须与部门讨论其拟议的重要创意项目，以确保部门具有相关专业知识来监督项目。
The Doctor of Social Sciences (DSocSci) is a professional doctorate which is designed to respond to the rapid changes taking place in professional workplaces that create demands on industry professionals to upgrade their qualifications. The degree involves units of coursework training (12 credit points) and a thesis of 50,000-80,000 words, for candidates not also submitting a significant creative project, or a thesis of 20,000-30,000 words for candidates also submitting a significant creative project. The DSocSci differs from a PhD. The thesis component may have a tighter word limit than a PhD thesis, and it should be focused on questions of professional practice, such as policy analysis and advice in the case of the social sciences, or critical exegesis in the case of theses accompanying creative works. The exact nature of the significant creative project will be determined by the disciplinary norms of the department through which a student is enrolled. Applicants must discuss their proposed significant creative projects with the department to ensure that the department has the relevant expertise to supervise the projects. Examples of significant creative projects include novels, biographies and memoirs, sets of short stories, poetic works, plays and other performance scripts, performed pieces, audio and/or video works, documentaries, collections of feature articles, and documented interventions in public debates, such as submissions, reports and major essays.