Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences

About this programme

The doctoral programme is coordinated by the University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Social Sciences, a leading scholarly unit in the field. The Faculty’s comprehensive range of disciplines and broad-based interdisciplinary collaboration provide doctoral researchers with a large international research community. Faculty disciplines included in the programme are global development studies, political history, social and cultural anthropology, social psychology, social work, sociology, economics, economic and social history, social and public policy, political science, and media and communication studies. From other faculties, the programme encompasses area and cultural studies, Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian studies, and human geography. It also includes five research units of the Faculty of Social Sciences: the Centre for European Studies, the Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy, the Centre for Consumer Society Research, the Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health, the Centre for Social Data Science and the Aleksanteri Institute at the Faculty of Humanities.