154 Full-time PhD programmes in Social Work

The highly individualized Doctorate in Social Work at Boston University offers hands-on research, teaching experience, and rigorous coursework

The PhD program in Social Work at West Virginia University will prepare students with the skills needed to excel in research, teaching, and leadership. 

The PhD Social, Occupational and Medico - Legal Sciences at Tor Vergata University of Rome intends to train young researchers whose career prospects will be boosted by their participation in a series of different research projects having as their central theme issues relating to medicine applied to the social, forensic and occupational system. 

The Sociology and Social Policy and Social Work PhD from University of Brighton brings you to an established research environment rich in achievement and ambition with impactful social change at the heart of the knowledge exchange agenda.

The Doctor of Philosophy (Social Work by research) at National University of Singapore is a research intensive advanced course for qualified social workers committed to their continuing professional education. 

A University of Hertfordshire research degree in Adolescent, Child and Family Health is an internationally recognised degree signifying high levels of achievement in research.

The online Doctor of Social Work (DSW) at University of Kansas gives current social workers the opportunity to further advance their skills with coursework of practice at the leadership or management level. 

The PhD degree in Interdisciplinary Research on Substance Use (IRSU) is awarded jointly by San Diego State University and UC San Diego. 

The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur  was established in 1960 along with other departments of Science and Engineering. 

This Health and Social Care Research Opportunities programme from University of Lincoln provides candidates with an opportunity to develop advanced and specific knowledge in a particular field of study. Students will have the freedom and flexibility to choose and develop their own subject area and enhance highly transferable research and project management skills.

Our PhD graduates in the Social Work program from The University of Iowa become leaders in education, research and government. 

The The inter-university Migration Studies programme in which, as well as Pablo de Olavide University includes research areas in social and cultural areas of migration, as well as globalisation and legal and political analysis of migration and human development.

The Graduate School of Social Work at University of Denver is home to one of the nation’s oldest social work PhD programs, but nothing about it is old-fashioned.

Sociology faculty at the University of Pittsburgh are committed to training the next generation of scholars in Social Work, whose research will inform policy and practice addressing society’s most pressing problems.

The Dual-Title PhD in Social Work - Gerontology at Wayne State University addresses the critical need for social work faculty and researchers trained in geriatrics who can promote evidence‐based practices and serve as role models for future generations of social workers specializing in the field.

The dissertation project in this Social Work programme at Karlstad University belongs to one of the subjects two research orientations: Critical welfare studies or Applied welfare research. The subject of social work belongs together with sociology, psychology, and gender studies to the Department of Social and Psychological Studies.

The PhD in Social Work program at the Memorial University of Newfoundland provides regionally relevant and accessible, advanced, and specialized education in social work.

The University of Manitoba PhD in Social Work focuses on developing skills for research and teaching in the field of social work. Our goal is to advance the fields of social work practice and social policy, striving to promote respect for human rights and dignity, individual worth and wellbeing, diversity, social inclusion and the principles of social justice.

Our Social Work research at The Open University UK is recognised for its innovative approach and academic rigour, with many of our academics internationally renowned as subject experts.

Earn the highest degree in the Social Work profession – the Ph.D. In keeping with the mission of The Catholic University of America, NCSSS prepares doctoral students to teach, research, and lead from a framework of mercy, charity, justice and peace that emanate from the teachings of Jesus Christ, and are expressed in the social and moral doctrine of the Church.