Social Sciences

Through this Social Sciences PhD program at Royal Roads University, you’ll advance your applied research and leadership skills to tackle challenging issues and transform organizations.

This Social Sciences PhD program from Royal Roads University is accessible if you’re a mid-career professional. You’ll study through a combination of online courses and two short residencies on campus with a group of other working professionals.

Key Facts

In addition to your coursework, you’ll complete candidacy exams and a traditional or portfolio dissertation.

This program is ideal if you’re a policy analyst, senior administrator, or executive from the public, private or non-profit sector.

Students and graduates include mid- to senior-level leaders from areas such as natural resource management, health care, global security, professional communication, disaster relief, humanitarian aid, conflict management, values-based leadership, environmental sustainability, and learning and technology.

Throughout your coursework, dissertation and research, you’ll benefit from the academic and professional expertise of our faculty.

It’s important for your program of study and research to connect with our academic program areas and align with Royal Roads University’s strategic research themes, which include the following:

• innovative learning

• thriving organizations

• sustainable communities, livelihoods and the environment

Curriculum: 

• Academic Integrity

• Social Change and Interdisciplinarity in Global Context

• Social Science Theory and the Globalized World

• Research Paradigms in Applied Social Sciences

• Applied Qualitative Social Scientific Methods