The School of Social and Cultural Studies brings together the teaching, research and scholarship strengths of Criminology, Cultural Anthropology, Social Policy and Sociology, and the Study of Religion.
You’ll study the current analyses of how societies and cultures are formed, how they are governed, how they break down and how we might envisage new and viable future social and cultural systems.
Study with us
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Explore undergraduate study
Follow your interests, discover new possibilities, and shape your future with a bachelor’s degree. The School of Social and Cultural Studies offers a Bachelor of Arts at undergraduate level.
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Explore postgraduate study
Build on your bachelor's degree, advance your career, change direction, or pursue a passion with postgraduate study. The School of Social and Cultural Studies offers a range of postgraduate qualifications, including diplomas, Honours, Master’s and PhD programmes.
Our researchers
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Prohibition is a social harm
Fiona's current research explores the harms caused by prohibition and the 'war on drugs'.
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Ethnographic dimensions of religious freedom
Tasi’s ethnographic research is on religious freedom in Samoa and shows major tension between Western individual rights and Samoa’s collective Christian ethic.
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Does pain feel how it means?
Ian researches the world's largest cause of disability – chronic pain – documenting how patients and clinicians understand pain and pain science education.
Office of the Inspectorate at the Department of Corrections
From Sociology graduate to graduate policy analyst
Religious Studies student shines bright here and abroad
