Welcome to the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
The School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research is one of the largest departments of its type in the UK. It is made up of three main groups of teaching staff:
- the Social Policy and Sociology group (which includes criminology) ,
- the Tizard Centre (for the study of learning disability and community care), and
- the European Centre for the Study of Migration and Social Care (for the study of migration, social care and mental health)
and two main research units:
- the Centre for Health Service Studies and
- the Personal Social Services Research Unit (which houses the Kent Centre for Criminal Justice).
The School offers programmes on the Canterbury campus and at the Medway campus at Chatham.
The School has a strong research culture. The School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research is a multidisciplinary school of social science and we retained our leading position within our disciplinary areas in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Our submission was the largest in the Social Work, Social Policy and Social Administration unit of assessment and it was rated equal fourth in the proportion of research rated 4* (the highest level) and 95% of our submission was judged ‘internationally significant'.
The School’s research quality impacts on its teaching in two ways: teaching is by academics who are leaders in their fields and the School has more resources to put on its wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
SSPSSR has a number of interesting MA and PhD programmes see Postgraduate Programmes pages for more detail.
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Latest News & Events
Former SSPSSR staff member and postgraduate awarded BJS prize
Dr Clare Saunders who gained her PhD at SSPSSR Kent received British Journal of Sociology 2009 biennial prize in recognition of her outstanding contribution to increasing sociological knowledge made by her article "Double-edged swords? Collective identity and solidarity in the environment movement"
SSPSSR School Seminar Series
SSPSSR runs a full programme of seminars - see our events pages for more information on who will be speaking.
Youth Transitions in Troubled Times
This BSA Study Group event for postgraduates will take place on 28 October 2009.
Pregnancy and Substance Misuse Seminar
Polly Radcliffe will be presenting research findings at half day seminar on Pregnancy and Substance Misuse in Woolf College on 30 November from 1pm onwards.
Thinking about PG study?
Did you graduate from Kent this year? For one year only, you can receive £1000 (£500 for PT students) off tuition fees for further study at Kent. You just need to be registered by 4 January 2010.
Find out more about the Graduate School Scholarship
Watch our video to learn more about PG study in our department.