Duration

4 years (Full-time)
6 years (Part-time)

Starting Date

September

Tuition Fee

€14,000 per year (Full-time)
€4,330 per year (Part-time EU)

Location

Maynooth, Ireland

The programme

The Sociology programme from Maynooth University aim:

  • To provide high-quality research training in a lively intellectual atmosphere
  • To promote students’ professional involvement in academic life
  • And to ensure that students will make a contribution to the understanding and well-being of contemporary societies

By the end of their time as a research postgraduate student in the Department it is our goal that students will:

  • Have completed a thesis which is a high-quality piece of orginal sociological analysis and is at least partly publishable in a peer-reviewed academic outlet
  • Have developed and demonstrated a significant level of skill in at least one methodology of sociological research and analysis
  • Have a broad knowledge of a number of sub-fields within sociology
  • And have had the opportunity to develop teaching and administrative skills and experience

Career Options

  • Research
  • Third Level Teaching
  • Government
  • Policy Analysis
  • Private, Community and Voluntary Sectors
  • Media and New Technology
  • Urban, Rural and Community Planning

Courses Included

  • Innovation and Research Commercialisation
  • Research Funding Application
  • Media Research Methods
  • The Craft and Logics of Social Research
  • Understanding Digital Societies
  • Nature And Society
  • Data Studio

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