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At Bangor, studying Sociology is about making a difference. Our degree places social justice at its heart; you’ll explore how responses to inequalities and crises play out in everyday life and how they are shaped by global forces. You’ll connect local challenges to global issues, including migration, climate change, AI and digital technologies, international human rights, and global economic inequality. Throughout your degree, you’ll learn how policies are created, challenged, and transformed, and how communities work towards fairer solutions.

Develop the practical research skills that social scientists use to understand and address real-world issues. You’ll learn qualitative interviewing, survey design, data analysis, digital and online research, and community-based fieldwork. Plus, have the opportunity to take your experience further through our internship schemes.

Explore how evidence shapes policy, how social action works, and how research drives change. You’ll build the skills to design, evaluate and advocate for solutions to today’s most pressing social challenges – turning your ideas into action.

Bring your studies to life by applying your learning in real-world settings through community projects, partnerships with organisations, and opportunities to work with local government, non-governmental organisations, the media, criminal justice agencies, and wider public bodies. We offer opportunities for work placement with local authorities and community organisations, ensuring your learning is directly linked to professional experience. Field trips to local and national government and explorations of topical issues, such as the demise of the high street, will bring policy and practice to life. Our degrees are designed to be career-oriented, preparing you for a wide range of professional opportunities.

Study with approachable and internationally respected academics whose research spans social inequalities, activism and rights, AI and the digital society, poverty, identity politics, climate change, communities, welfare, crime and justice, wellbeing, and social change. You’ll learn in a friendly, supportive environment from people actively shaping debates and influencing policy in the real world.