Social Sciences
We are a truly international department, attracting leading scholars from across the globe. Our vibrant research culture is driven by a thriving and collaborative community of academic staff and doctoral students.
We offer the following research degrees:
- MA/MSc by research
- MPhil
- PhD.
Support
You can expect:
- Supervision from experts in the field, including joint supervision for interdisciplinary projects
- Exceptional grounding in research training and other essential skills especially through our bespoke Global Politics, Economy and Society doctoral training programme
- Research groups led by academic staff
- Seminars with presentations from high profile external guest speakers on their current research
- Methodology workshops
- A series of work-in-progress seminars culminating in an annual end of year workshop where PhD students present their current work
- Opportunities to submit publications jointly with academic staff in leading research journals
- Career and skills development activities including support to attend external conferences and workshops.
Research Areas
You can undertake research degrees in the following areas:
Anthropology and Geography
- Anthropology of art
- Anthropology of food
- Anthropology of globalisation
- Anthropology of Japan
- Basque studies
- Culture and landscapes
- Environmental archaeology and palæo-anthropology
- Environmental anthropology
- Environmental reconstruction
- Human origins
- Human resource ecology
- Human–wildlife interaction and conservation
- Organisational anthropology
- Physical environmental processes and management
- Primate conservation
- Primatology
- Quaternary environmental change
- Social anthropology of South Asia and Europe
- Urban and environmental studies.
International Studies
- Citizenship theory and practice
- Comparative politics of welfare states
- Conflict and post-conflict reconstruction
- Critical international studies
- East Asian regionalism
- Environmental politics
- European politics and society
- Gender and politics
- Globalisation and global theory n International political economy n Masculinities
- Normative political theory
- Political communication and marketing
- Political violence
- Post-communist politics
- Refugees, migration and statelessness
- Security studies
- Social and political change
- Social movements and global civil society
- Southern African politics
- State theory
- Terrorism and counter-terrorism
- Theory and practice of human rights.
Research Centres
- Anthropology Centre for Conservation, Environment and Development
- Centre for Democracy Studies
- Europe Japan Research Centre.
Consultancy
- Oxford Brookes Archaeology and Heritage (OBAH).
