Overview

The programme involves critical discussions of how welfare states meet human needs and delve into the enormous challenges posed by social changes. You explore key fields of policy including health, migration, social care and labour market related policy. Methodological training is central to the programme, covering critical thinking and applied qualitative and quantitative technical skills.

Reasons to study an International Social Policy degree at Kent

• Social Policy at Kent was ranked 2nd in The Times Good University Guide 2022
• Core modules provide inter-disciplinary insights into fundamental aspects of comparative and international social policy research, and in-depth training in appropriate methodologies
• Optional (elective) modules focus in detail on specialised topics relating to social policy and allied fields of study
• A diverse and international community allowing for the development of genuinely global and comparative perspectives
• Social Work and Social Policy was ranked 3rd in the UK for Research in the Times Higher Education following the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021
• Academic Adviser and in-house student support team available
• Thriving cosmopolitan student community in and around the city of Canterbury
• First-class facilities at our Canterbury campus, close to London
• Graduate at the historic Canterbury Cathedral

About the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR)

SSPSSR has a long and distinguished history, and is one of the largest and most successful social science research communities in Europe. 

Academic staff specialise in research of international, comparative and theoretical significance, and we have collective strengths in the following areas: civil society, NGOs and the third sector; cross-national and European social policy; health, social care and health studies; work, employment and economic life; risk, ‘risk society’ and risk management; race, ethnicity and religion; social and public policy; sociology and the body; crime, culture and control; sociological theory and the culture of modernity.