School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy

We work in areas of contemporary importance, including urbanisation, climate change, geographic information systems, international development and social inequality.

Our stimulating teaching and wide-ranging courses encompass fascinating periods and topics, from human prehistory to the contemporary world.

Our courses are designed to encourage you to think independently about the most vital questions in philosophy and its history.

Our Department of Politics is a distinguished centre of interdisciplinary research, with a strong reputation for the quality of our teaching.

We carry out critical, socially engaged research and we are at the forefront of the development of the innovative, expanding interdisciplinary field of psychosocial studies.

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We run a very wide range of events, representing the breadth of our academic and research interests.

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We work in a variety of different ways with a number of other institutions, local and national bodies, and interested communities.

We are responsible for coordinating and signposting the learning and academic development support available to students in the school.

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Details of the school ethics policy for all staff and students conducting research.

Read about modules and courses in the School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy that focus on critical race studies, racism and racialisation.

We engage with key issues in British politics and public life through public debates, conferences, lectures, seminars and seminar series, and workshops.

We examine and make sense of internationalism in its various guises, past and present, and provide an intellectual home for researchers at all stages in their careers.

We provide a forum for innovative interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange in gender and sexuality studies.

We engage with important public issues through debates, lectures, seminars and conferences, to promote interdisciplinary research and collaboration.

We are the focal point for social research at Birkbeck, and a hub for the dissemination and discussion of social research in London and beyond.

We are a centre of innovative research and teaching and contribute to discussion and public policy formation on antisemitism and intolerance.

London-based, we are devoted to encouraging the widest possible participation in historical study and debate.

Interdisciplinary social science training programmes designed to prepare you for further research in the workplace or for MPhil/PhD study.

This programme will enable you to develop advanced conceptual skills and knowledge that can be applied within or beyond an academic context.

Sociologically-oriented research takes place within and across a number of the school’s six departments.