Social Sciences

LLB Law and LLB Law & Criminal Justice

The Roehampton Law School welcomed its first students in 2015 yet we’ve already achieved the UK’s highest overall student satisfaction rate for Law in the 2019 National Student Survey.  An incredible 97% of students graduating in 2019 said that their course had been intellectually stimulating, well organised and that it challenged them to achieve their best work. 

Roehampton’s Law In Practice approach to teaching and learning means students start thinking and working like a lawyer from day one.  The department is also gearing up to prepare future students for the new pathway to qualifying as a solicitor due to start in 2021. 

On the job experience

Excellent work experience opportunities are now available to Roehampton Law School students via its newly opened Law Clinic, which sits within the Wandsworth Citizen’s Advice Bureau, a short walk from campus.  Working alongside a qualified solicitor, our students prepare case notes and make fact-finding calls to clients who are seeking help with issues such as facing eviction. It combines excellent experience of real life law work with the satisfaction of providing a much needed service to our local community.

BSc Criminology

Challenge yourself to think differently about crime with our stimulating criminology degree, while gaining gain a host of transferable skills such as researching, critical thinking and problem solving. 

Criminology is an interdisciplinary subject, which could be described as a meeting point between law, sociology, psychology, social policy and human rights. Many of the major issues it explores are permanently evolving and always in the news, such as tackling knife crime, de-radicalising terrorists and combatting modern slavery.

Among our academic staff in Social Sciences, Roehampton boasts high-profile experts in areas as diverse as ‘honour’ crimes, drugs, family violence, prisons, youth offending, sexual crime and military law. 

Criminology graduates often go on to be employed in the following professions:

• Policing
• Probation service
• Civil service
• Prison officer
• Drugs counsellor
• Youth worker
• Social worker
• Campaigner

BSc Sociology

Sociologists see the world differently. They explore the connections that bind humanity together via families, social grouping, geography and institutions. They study how factors such as gender, ethnicity, wealth, politics and education affect an individual’s place in society.  As such, sociology students are intellectually curious, and gain a range of important transferable skills through their course, for example:

• Researching
• Critical thinking
• Collaborative working
• Planning and conducting interviews
• Analysing data
• Report writing
• Giving presentations