该课程针对有特定主题且希望自己进行研究的学生。它提供结构化的研究培训，同时使您能够与主管协商，继续自己设计的研究项目。它既可以作为一个独立的研究计划，也可以为博士学位的进一步研究做准备。经济和社会历史通过运用包括经济学，社会学和社会人类学在内的社会科学方面的各种见解和方法，探讨了现代社会发展的历史过程。该方案侧重于各种历史背景下的民间社会，物质文化，青年，性别，犯罪，电影，经济增长和能源政策。爱丁堡在这一研究领域拥有一大批杰出的学者。在历史时期和世界范围内，他们的专业领域为您提供了广泛的选择范围。
We host one of the largest economic and social history research groupings in the UK. Staff research interests are wide-ranging, including the study of: economic development energy policy financial history globalisation urban history consumption material culture museums and collecting leisure religious belief popular culture medicine and disease gender sexuality the family The diversity of our research means we can support students’ economic and social history study in a vast range of time periods and geographical regions and from the early modern period to the present day. Particular areas of expertise available for research are: culture and society in early modern Britain the material culture of gender in 18th-century Britain urban society and civil society in historical context cinema and society in modern Britain gender, crime and deviancy: Britain 1860–1960 energy policy in Britain since 1920 the economic history of China in the 20th century history of medicine and health in Britain since 1750 The University’s economic and social historians host three research groups: material and visual cultures of the past enlightenment and popular culture economic and social history