Best undergraduate dissertations
Listed here are the highest-marked undergraduate sociology and politics dissertations for 2025, with links to the dissertations themselves where permission has been granted.
These dissertations demonstrate the calibre of work our students produce and the breadth of topics they cover.
Please note that these dissertations are published in the state they were submitted for examination and authors have not been able to correct errors and/or departures from departmental guidelines for the presentation of dissertations.
In each case, copyright resides with the author and all rights are reserved.
Sociology dissertations
| Student |
Title |
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| Ella Mackie | 'Do no harm? An evaluation of the legislative role within the production of medical harm in the NHS.' |
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Emily Cook |
'Hypersexuality and Digital Intimacy: Queer Sexual Practices During the Covid-19 Pandemic': Emily Cook, 2025 (PDF, 708kB) |
| Eve Cohen | 'Can't Touch This? Jewish Women, Mikveh and Meaning': Eve Cohen, 2025 (PDF, 690kB) |
| Hannah Mills | 'The Reality of Gender: Analysing the Construction, Perception and Reinforcement of Gender in Reality Television, Using Love Island as a Case Study': Hannah Mills, 2025 (PDF, 886kB) |
| Kate Danston | 'Reading Between the Blinds: The Reproduction of Sexuality Binaries in Celebrity Blind Items': Kate Danston, 2025 (PDF, 1,163kB) |
| Khadija Mohamed | 'Investigating the experience of type 2 diabetes among a Somali population in the UK':Khadija Mohamed, 2025 (PDF, 461kB) |
| Laura Butler | 'Once a mother, always a mother: Making sense of the Empty Nest Transition': Laura Butler, 2025 (PDF, 431kB) |
| Lizzie Hunt | 'Caring on Their Terms: How Gender Shapes Older Adults’ Attitudes and Experiences of Receiving Informal Care': Lizzie Hunt, 2025 (PDF, 500kB) |
| Mia Pounds | 'Professional Judgement in Detached Youth Work': Mia Pounds, 2025 (PDF, 469kB) |
| Ruby Warner | Winner of the 2025 Sociology Prize for Highest Dissertation Mark 'We're finding ways to include everybody. Even if they sit badly on our data: Insights into a School’s Non-Exclusion Approach': Ruby Warner, 2025 (PDF, 467kB) |
| Seerat Dhillon | 'Artefacts, possessions and home décor: how Punjabi Sikhs residing in the West Midlands express their religio-cultural identity in relation to Britishness within the home space': Seerat Dhillon, 2025 (PDF, 3,392kB) |
Politics dissertations
| Student |
Title |
|---|---|
| Alice Sausman | 'Framing Period Poverty: An Analysis of the Limitations of the UK Government’s Policy Strategy for Menstrual Equity': Alice Sausman, 2025 (PDF, 353kB) |
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Amelia Entwisle |
'Young Boys in the Manosphere: How Are the Effects of the Dissemination of Misogyny Online Manifesting Themselves in UK Primary Schools?': Amelia Entwisle, 2025 (PDF, 360kB) |
| Anya Stevenson | 'Uluru Statement from the Disheartened: A Critical Discourse Analysis of How Australian Online News Media Helped Defeat the 2023 Voice to Parliament Referendum': Anya Stevenson, 2025 (PDF, 810kB) |
| Edie Kenningham Smit | 'Reaching the Doughnut: Civic Republicanism to Save The Planet': Edie Kenningham Smit, 2025 (PDF, 1,214kB) |
| Ella Styche-Patel | 'Back to Normal: Evaluating the UK Government’s education recovery approach and the missed opportunity to "build back better" post-Covid': Ella Styche-Patel, 2025 (PDF, 454kB) |
| Ellen Jones | 'Well, does it look like the miners’ strike? Mainstream media’s critical narrative frames during the 2022 RMT strikes': Ellen Jones, 2025 (PDF, 624kB) |
| Emilie Miller | 'The Impact of Religion on US Abortion Policy': Emilie Miller, 2025 (PDF, 536kB) |
| Emily Stewart | 'Empowerment for Sale: The Price of Neoliberal Feminism within the field of Development': Emily Stewart, 2025 (PDF, 364kB) |
| Emily Underhill | 'The Language of Violence and Division: How Conspiracy Theories Drive Far-Right Extremism': Emily Underhill, 2025 (PDF, 1,494kB) |
| Emma Heap |
‘"Migrant" Is a Label, Not a Justification: The Media’s Role In Dehumanising and Humanising Migrants Between 1979 and 2024': Emma Heap, 2025 (PDF, 610kB) |
| Ethan Maher | 'Claiming the "Bro Vote" - A Rhetorical Analysis of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage’s Appearances on Long Format, Digital Podcasts in 2024': Ethan Maher, 2025 (PDF, 464kB) |
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Fabian Reisser-Westo |
'Greta Thunberg’s Populist Performance: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Thunberg’s Political Style within her Speeches': Fabian Reisser-Westo, 2025 (PDF, 287kB) |
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Faniki Deche |
'Football is influenced by Money and Winning: The intersectional effects of the commodification of football on English South Asian Women': Faniki Deche, 2025 (PDF, 438kB) |
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Fern Wilson |
'Social Media Influencers and the 2024 United States Presidential Election': Fern Wilson, 2025 (PDF, 714kB) |
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Freya Morris |
'The Descriptive-Substantive Link Beyond Democracies: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Women Cabinet Ministers in NonDemocratic Regimes': Freya Morris, 2025 (PDF, 891kB) |
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Indiagrace Gardner |
'Investigating the Tate-riarchy: Patriarchy for Profit in "The Real World"': Indiagrace Gardner, 2025 (PDF, 940kB) |
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Jaxon Vary |
'Securitising "Ecological Civilisation": Evaluation of CCP Construction of Ecological Civilisation as National Security Strategy': Jaxon Vary, 2025 (PDF, 437kB) |
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Louisa Lemor |
'Framing the Narrative: the Role of National News Media in the Spread of Public-Level Euroscepticism': Louisa Lemor, 2025 (PDF, 703kB) |
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Monica Solis |
'Shifting the Genre: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Representations of Transatlantic Slavery in English Secondary School History Textbooks': Monica Solis, 2025 (Office document, 1,180kB) |
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Noah Wheeler |
'Steering Away from Car Dependency: An Analysis of Collective and Individualistic Transport Alternatives in the UK': Noah Wheeler, 2025 (PDF, 623kB) |
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Rafael Pollack-Joyce |
'A UKIP of the Left: Does the Green Party of England and Wales have Populist Elements? A qualitative content analysis of party outputs from 1973 till the present day': Rafael Pollack-Joyce, 2025 (PDF, 988kB) |
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Rhiannon Jenkins |
'Weaponising Gendered Violence: An Analysis of Femonationalist Logics in British Parliamentary Discourse': Rhiannon Jenkins, 2025 (PDF, 2,189kB) |
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Seth Morgan |
'Building a Better World. But for Whom? Why Are Ethnically Minoritised, Environmentally Concerned People Underrepresented in British Climate Protest?': Seth Morgan, 2025 (PDF, 553kB) |
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Xav Christopher |
'From Disinformation to Disorder: The 2024 Riots and the Far-Right': Xav Christopher, 2025 (PDF, 1,122kB) |
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Zahra Finebaum-Ratho |
'Hydro-Hegemony in World Politics; a Case Study of Israel, Palestine and the Jordan River Basin': Zahra Finebaum-Ratho, 2025 (PDF, 369kB) |
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Zi Qi Sin |
'Lights, Camera, Legitimacy? Curtains Up on Singapore’s National Day Celebrations as a Stage for Nation-Building or Party Glorification': Zi Qi Sin, 2025 (PDF, 798kB) |