Welcome to our world-leading department
We are one of the best departments for teaching and research in sociology worldwide. Our vibrant and diverse learning community is committed to a transformational and global public sociology.
We are consistently ranked in the top 2 of all sociology departments in the UK, and in the top 10 globally.
- #1 The Complete University Guide Subject League Table 2025
- #2 The Guardian University Subject Ranking 2025
- #1 Times Ranking 2024
- QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024: Sociology
- #2 The Times Higher Education’s rankings of Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 for research quality in UK higher education. The next REF is published in 2029.
Our ethos
We are committed to public facing, theoretically strong, empirically orientated research.
We have a proud tradition of research grounded in contemporary real-world issues. Our expertise includes social movements and political economy; health; medicine and the biosociety; digital sociology; the sociology of war, conflict, inequality, race, gender, work, emotions, beauty, and the environment.
Our innovative methods connect us with politicians and policymakers, technologists and practitioners, community groups and activists.
Within our interdisciplinary social sciences context, we maintain our distinctive profile as an internationally renowned centre of excellence.
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