Welcome to HSS
Main faculty office - Room 724
20 Bedford Way
London WC1H 0AL
Phone: 020 7612 6565
Fax: 020 7612 6632
BA Education Studies
Our new part-time undergraduate degree gives you the opportunity to explore contemporary issues in education from a range of disciplinary perspectives (history, philosophy, psychology and sociology).
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Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS)
Head of Department - Professor Jane Martin
Welcome to the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) an interdisciplinary grouping bringing together high quality teaching and research in the history, sociology and philosophy of education and international development.
We have extensive experience and expertise in education planning, health and gender in Africa, Asia and Latin America, 'policy sociology', education, equality and human rights: issues of gender, 'race', sexuality, disability and social class.
Linking research, policy and practice, the result is an extraordinarily powerful learning community
People from all over the world come together to draw lessons for employment and training and share experiences, engaging in debates about educational values, and about social and cultural change and its implications for global social justice - past, present and future.
Participants learn from these exchanges and crucially from each other.
Study with us
HSS provides a friendly and supportive environment in which to study. We offer superb research training in mixed methods, advanced qualitative inquiry, policy analysis, biography and education.
Students benefit from high quality, research-led teaching and supervision besides having access to the Institute's specialist Newsam Library and Archives, the best education library in Europe.
In addition, we host the Centre for Equalities and Critical Education Policy Studies (CECEPS)
Our Links
We work closely with the London International Development Centre (LIDC) and the UK Forum for International Education and Training (UKFIED) as well as with regional organizations, employer organizations, national institutes, international organisations and NGOs.
Get free access, for personal and educational use, to fascinating original material related to work on education and developing countries embracing the work of many in the department: see the texts of professorial lectures in this field as well alumni recollections going back to the 1930s.