我们的研究专业知识围绕三个主题：身份，健康与生命科学社会学和社会转型。我们的研究传统涵盖社会学，社会政策和社会人类学。我们在家庭研究，健康研究，政治经济学，性，公民身份以及青年和学生生活等领域具有优势。我们的MPhil和PhD项目涵盖了广泛的当代社会学，包括：身体，身份和经验，文化和物质生活，“发展”和全球南方，情感和亲密感，环境和社会，想象过去和未来，性与性别，伦理学社会学，健康与生命科学社会学，法律社会学，视觉和美学文化。<br>全日制-全日制：至少12个月，兼职：至少24个月<br> PhD-全日制
Advance the discipline and engage critically with pressing social issues on our PhD in Sociology programmes.<br>You'll join a lively and supportive group of leading sociologists. This provides a rich environment to grow your own ideas and make a major research contribution within our discipline and beyond. Our PhD in Sociology programme supports students to explore social issues and debates. You'll have opportunities to conduct innovative theoretical and empirical research to a high international standard.<br><br>At Newcastle you'll find a group of research-active staff across a range of specialisms in Sociology and Social Anthropology. We have strong interdisciplinary links particularly with anthropology, health studies, geography and politics. Research at Newcastle is world-leading. We have a reputation for impact and relevance for policy and practice.<br>Our PhD students have generated cutting edge research on a wide range of topics:<br>from ethnographic studies of post-disaster livelihoods to sex trafficking and self-harm<br>from higher education and underemployment to gay and lesbian families<br>from female identities in African and Middle Eastern societies to new religions in post-socialist Europe<br>from the relationship between social class and everyday food practices to the experiences of migrant communities.