The MSc Sociology programme provides rigorous and in-depth training in sociological theory, methodology, and key areas of sociological research.
Programme Directors: Professor Fran Tonkiss
The MSc City Design and Social Science programme focuses on the relations between the physical and social organisation of cities and urban environments.
Programme Directors: Dr Suzanne Hall and Dr David Madden
Find out more about the MSc City Design and Social Science and the Cities Programme
The MSc Culture and Society programme gives you the opportunity to develop expertise in the social study of cultural processes. Its ethos emphasises tight integration of leading-edge cultural theory, innovative methodologies and attention to the most significant cultural trends and practices, globally and locally.
Programme Director: Dr Don Slater
The MSc Economy, Risk and Society programme offers a flexible yet comprehensive introduction to the sociologies of risk and economic life, thereby providing a strong theoretical and methodological foundation for engaging in current discussions on the future of our societies.
Programme Director: Dr Rebecca Elliott
The MSc Human Rights programme is uniquely multidisciplinary and provides a concentrated year-long engagement with the foundations of human rights and key human rights issues.
Programme Director: Dr Monika Krause
The MSc Human Rights and Politics provides a rigorous year-long academic engagement with critical political issues faced by international human rights today.
Programme Director: Professor Chetan Bhatt
Political sociology is a subject with a long and distinguished history and a thriving contemporary debate. The MSc Political Sociology programme is designed to look beneath the day-to-day controversies of politics in order to explore the underlying forces that either promote or retard political and social change.
Programme Director: Dr Robin Archer
The MSc Inequalities and Social Science programme is a comprehensive and wide-ranging programme, providing an introduction to a range of interdisciplinary approaches to the social scientific analysis of inequality.
Programme Director: Dr Sam Friedman
Find out more about the MSc Inequalities and Social Science programme and the International Inqualities Institute
The MSc International Migration and Public Policy programme provides a systematic multidisciplinary approach to central controversies in the comparative analysis of public policy responses to immigration and migrant integration issues across different levels of governance. It is a joint programme offered by the European Institute and Departments of Government and Sociology.
This programme is administered by the European Institute.
Programme Director: Dr Eiko Thielemann
Director of Taught Postgraduate Studies: Dr Robin Archer
The MPhil/PhD Sociology programme offers you the chance to undertake a substantial piece of work that is worthy of publication and which makes an original contribution to sociology. You will begin on the MPhil, and will need to meet certain requirements to be upgraded to PhD status.
The Doctoral Programme Director is Professor Mike Savage.
The MPhil/PhD Cities programme offers an excellent environment for interdisciplinary graduate research on cities, space and urbanism. You will begin on the MPhil, and will need to meet certain requirements to be upgraded to PhD status.
The Doctoral Programme Director is Professor Mike Savage.
Find out more about the MPhil/PhD Cities and the Cities Programme
The VRS scheme allows students pursuing research at other institutions to attend courses and benefit from the expertise of the LSE faculty, Library and academic support services.