28 Short courses in Sociology in United Kingdom

Discover where a career in nursing may lead. Join the Introduction to Nursing - Bioscience, Psychology and Sociology programme at the University of York.

Learn of the ways in which we can tackle social injustice. Join this Understanding and Solving Poverty and Inequality programme from 

Explore life inside UK prisons during this Incarceration - Are Prisons a Suitable Punishment course from University of Leeds through  FutureLearn. Learn whether this type of punishment reduces crime and if rehabilitation can prevent reoffending.

This Specialist Safeguarding module at the University of Salford will enable the learner to demonstrate an advanced knowledge of safeguarding issues across the life course.

Become a confident ethnographic researcher and take your social research skills further with this flexible Ethnographic Research Project course at the University of Aberdeen.

The Health and Social Care Management is a comprehensive program designed to equip individuals with the knowledge and skills needed for leadership roles in the health and social care sector. London School of Planning and Management's offers the Health and Social Care Management programme. 

The Essex Human Rights Online Summer School from University of Essex will cover a wide range of topics related to professional practice in human rights.

This Diversity, Inclusion and Contemporary Practice for Social Workers and Social Care Professionals module at Anglia Ruskin University, which is designed for qualified social workers, will have you thinking of the ‘bigger picture’.

Find out how propaganda is used to instil political ideologies and its impact on our daily lives, with this Propaganda and Ideology in Everyday Life course from The University of Nottingham delivered through FutureLearn.

The Equality and Diversity QCF - Level 2 course at the London School of International Business is to give Learners an introduction to the issues around stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination, to identify the basic rights that all people should enjoy and the shared values people have.

This Understanding Social Change module at the University of Salford provides a reflective examination of how we arrived at change moments and policy positions, and how these have resulted in new areas of socio-political examination.

This Health and Wellbeing of Children, Young People and Families module at Robert Gordon University aims to provide you with an understanding and awareness of strategies and interventions to support child and family health and wellbeing.

This Inequalities course at Robert Gordon University will explore and critically discuss the different dimensions of inequalities aligned to social, cultural, political, and contextual aspects, which can determine health outcomes at different stages in life.

This Advanced Research Design module at Oxford Brookes University aims to equip you with skills to find, appraise and utilise research, as well as plan and design a piece of research work.

The Working With Communities - An Introduction course at Edinburgh College has been designed for those who would like to know more about providing support, advice and guidance for people in a Community Learning and Development (CLD) context, through this work, develop and gain knowledge and skills of working with people in a variety of community environments.

Learn the skills you need to carry out research in your own community using the 'citizen science' approach of UCL's RELIEF Centre with Community Based Research - Getting Started at UCL by FutureLearn.

Join this The Psychology of Social Bias course at the University of Aberdeen for a better understanding of social bias in the workplace and wider society.

This Equality and Diversity qualification at The Sheffield College is suitable for both young and adult learners, including those in or seeking employment. It is also ideal for those who need to develop an awareness of issues surrounding equality and diversity, for example as part of an induction programme or personal development.

Quantitative methods are central to social research. In this Quantitative Methods in Social Science course at the University of Aberdeen, you’ll learn to carry out effective quantitative research.

Develop your skills in qualitative research online. Learn how to carry out research interviews and focus groups ethically and successfully with this Research Interviews and Focus Groups in Social Science course at the University of Aberdeen.