MPhil/PhD Social Research Methods

London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London

Through this programme, you'll expand your expertise and creativity in developing and applying rigorous social research methodologies. By doing so, you'll contribute to tackling important intellectual and social problems in your substantive area of interest. Throughout your studies, you’ll benefit from our interdisciplinary expertise in areas such as political science, statistics, sociology, social psychology, anthropology and criminology. Alongside your research, you’ll have the chance to complete training in research design, computational, quantitative and qualitative methods. You’ll begin your studies on the MPhil and move on to the PhD (subject to certain requirements). We support both qualitative and quantitative research, as well as novel combinations of the two approaches. We encourage you to apply if you want to work on a research project that applies established methodological approaches rigorously in new contexts, and/or that contributes to methodological developments.