Structured Ph.D (Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences) (Political Science and Sociology)

Course Overview

In the School of Political Science and Sociology, Ph.D. students pursue their research as part of the thematic Research Cluster in which their supervisor is located. The School's Research Clusters are:

• Children, Youth, and Families (the Child and Family Research Centre)
• Gender, Empowerment, and Globalisation
• Governance and Sustainable Development
• Power, Conflict, and Ideologies

As part of the doctoral training available on the Structured Ph.D. program, students select from a range of interdisciplinary taught modules.  The wide menu of available options include modules that:

• are discipline-specific in that they augment the student’s existing knowledge in their specialist area, e.g., Social and Political Theory
• are dissertation-specific in that they supply core skills which are essential to the completion of the research project e.g. Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods 
• acknowledge a student’s professional development, e.g., presentation of a paper at an international conference
• enhance a student’s employability through generic training, e.g., career workshops, computer literacy.

Each student will be assigned a primary Supervisor(s) and a Graduate Research Committee made up of experienced researchers to plan their program of study and to provide on-going support to their research.