PHD.IDSR - Interdisciplinary Social Research - PhD

The PhD in Interdisciplinary Social Research (IDSR) will prepare students to understand and expand interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to examining complex social issues. This degree will offer students a pathway into academic (university-based) and non-academic (public, private and civil society sectors) research positions in a range of fields that require doctoral level social science research skills, including education and caring professions, business and management, and the social sciences where there is benefit in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge and approaches.

This graduate degree will build on Trent University’s strengths in interdisciplinary scholarship in the social sciences. As Canada adapts to an era of profound social, economic and environmental change, leadership and expertise in interdisciplinary perspectives and processes for identifying and solving complex social issues are required. With a combined emphasis on social inquiry, interdisciplinary research and professional scholarship, the IDSR provides a theoretical, methodological and experiential training ground for the development of leading scholarship that builds understanding of key social, material and environmental issues facing societies, both historically and in the present day.