Welcome

The School of Social Sciences is located in the Faculty of Health, Life and Social Sciences. We aim  to combine high quality teaching and learning with high quality research, and to develop the links between these activities. The School is home to a full range of teaching and learning activities, providing single honours degrees and a wide range of combined honours programmes at undergraduate level, a taught postgraduate programme, and supervision of research degrees.

We provide a friendly and supportive environment and a great deal of our work bears the characteristic hallmark of co-operation and interdisciplinarity. This bears fruit within our distinctive curriculum and also in our collaborative research, as we view the two as intricately connected. The School comprises 28 full time staff and also draws upon part time staff with considerable teaching and practical experience. The staff profile reflects the full spectrum, ranging from highly experienced professors through to newer lecturers embarking upon an academic career for the first time, and we aim to blend and share the attributes of each and every one, with all who study with us.

Staff in the School have extensive experience of designing, managing and delivering high quality, vocationally relevant courses. It is our aim to provide students with good employment prospects, through enhancing their employability, and to equip them to become lifelong learners. We align ourselves closely with the University’s ‘student as producer’ agenda and there is an active mentoring and placement programme running alongside many of our courses.

The School has links with higher education providers in a variety of countries and, for some programmes, it is possible to study abroad for a period. In addition, we attract a variety of external visitors each year, both from the UK and overseas, and students are often able to benefit from this. We also organise annual trips abroad for students, e.g. to the United Nations, and we encourage an active alumni association of Social Science Students.

Staff  are active within their academic communities, providing yet another resource to support the work of the School. In addition, we encompass the Policy Studies Research Centre with significant ongoing research programmes and a vibrant seminar series. The School has provided the foundation for a number of national and international conferences and we participate in a wide range of initiatives within the University and nationally, around teaching and learning and research. All of these activities bring academics from the UK and many other countries to Lincoln. The School of Social Sciences is at the hub of the international, the national and the local, and provides a significant presence for each of these within Lincoln University. 

 

We look forward to seeing and/or hearing from you, and very much hope that you choose to study with us.

Dr Kelvin Jones Head of School