It is time to elevate your expertise, creativity, and analytical thinking to achieve your career ambitions. Join our Doctor of Social Science in Applied Social Science (DSSC) Programme!

This elite professional doctorate is designed for visionary professionals prepared to become thought leaders. Equivalent in prestige to a Ph.D., the DSSC blends state-of-the-art academic research with real-world application in a cross-disciplinary settings, empowering you to tackle complex socio-economic challenges with confidence and competence.

Whether your professional expertise is in the public, business or social domain, this programme equips you with transdisciplinary research skills and a deep understanding of actionable social science. You’ll conduct applied research with originality in your professional context, gaining insights that drive innovation and impact.

Empowering Professional Leadership Through Scholarly Excellence

The Doctor of Social Science programme is designed to offer a well-structured, applied-research oriented doctorate curriculum with the interface of organization and society as the contextual setting. Organized around a team of world-class researchers, it aims to cultivate scholarly professionals who are academically equipped to lead with innovation and insight across diverse organizational contexts. This programme supports the transformation of promising professionals into thoughtful social and organizational leaders, contributing to excellence in their related domains.

o Organizational Talent Development: Empower emerging professionals to advance their careers through structured academic and practical training in social research.

o Strategic Capacity Building: Enhance the innovation capabilities of senior professionals through advanced social research and applied learning to reach their career pinnacle.

o Lifelong Learning: Offer opportunities for retiring professionals to pursue intellectual enrichment and personal growth through continued scholarship in applied social research.