城市的社会学研究学位旨在培养具有分析能力和方法论能力的学者，以设计独立的研究项目，生成可增进实质性和理论性知识和理解并能够在大学任教的出版物。博士学位课程的实质性和方法论性质，工作人员的多元化研究兴趣以及我们在伦敦的所在地，导致完成了一系列创新的学科和跨学科博士论文。作为我们研究生研究计划的学生，您最初已获得MPhil奖注册。博士学位注册不是自动进行的，而是取决于审查过程是否令人满意。对于全日制候选人，这将在您注册的第一年末进行。您将向学术专家小组提交一份正式的实质性升级或转移文档，以进行评估，并参加年度
On the Mphil/PhD, you will join the vibrant research culture in our leading sociology department and work closely with our expert supervisors, advancing your understanding and knowledge of sociology.<br>You will be joining a dynamic and cosmopolitan research community in a leading sociology department. We will work with you to help you become a scholar with the skills to design an independent research project, generate publications that advance substantive and theoretical knowledge and understanding, and who can teach at university level.<br>As a Sociology student on our graduate research programme, you are initially registered for an MPhil award. Progression to PhD registration is not automatic, but contingent on the satisfactory outcome of a review process. This takes place towards the end of the first year of your registration for full-time candidates. You will submit a substantial formally constructed upgrade or transfer document for assessment to an academic panel and present at the annual research colloquium. Subject to demonstrating both in writing and presentation the intellectual and methodological ability and motivation to complete a PhD and providing a viable timetabled plan for timely completion of the research, you will be upgraded to PhD status.<br>Your progress is periodically assessed during years two and three of research. This also ensures that you are receiving appropriate levels of supervision, training, and practical support.