Sociology’s postgraduate culture centres on students completing an MA by Research; MPhil or PhD. As an Abertay researcher, students will collaborate across disciplines with colleagues from other divisions. They have been a key partner in a number of large European grants specifically examining the interaction between technology, society and social innovation, as well as exploring social network dynamics for collective awareness.

Division staff have supervised a wide range of projects some of which have entailed partnership with non-academic user groups in the domains of:

• Policy sociology – health, education, youth, environment, influencing public policy, communities and professional practice.
• Criminal justice – influencing policing and criminal justice stakeholders.
• Media, arts and cultural industries – centring on digital design processes, media educationalists, artists and curators.