Finding a supervisor

As a student, you will have two supervisors to cover sufficient specialism and a variety of skills and expertise within your research project.

Our varied research interests allow us to offer postgraduate research supervision in a wide range of topics, such as:

  • administrative data;
  • ageing, health and well-being;
  • class and labour dynamics;
  • democracy, citizens and elections research;
  • demographics;
  • ethnicity, religion and migration;
  • methods, data services and training;
  • statistical modelling;
  • survey research.

Research themes

Explore our key research themes below and the staff who work within these, then click through to see their interests and what they would be keen to supervise.

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Why Manchester?

We turn enthusiasm into achievement and theory into cutting-edge practice. You’ll develop skills, knowledge and experience that will make employers sit up and listen.