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Q-Step

The Q-Step Centre offers 'with Data Analytics' pathways on Sociology and Criminology degrees at City St George's.

  • Q-Step. A step-change in quantitative social science skills. Funded by the Nuffield Foundation, ESRC and HEFCE. logo

Based in the Department of Sociology and Criminology, the Q-Step Centre offers a Data Analytics pathway for students who want to receive specialist data analytics training as part of their degree.

Sociology alumni Clara talks about how the Q-Step pathway helped spark her curiosity and lead to a career with a leading marketing and trend consultancy. 2:00

Stand out in the job market
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    Knowledge

    Develop the skills needed to make sense of data and the ways it can be used to better understand society.

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    Briefcase

    Boost your employability with key skills that are in short supply within many fields.

Data literacy and number skills are highly sought after in sectors as diverse as the government and local government, education, market research organisations, the not-for-profit sector, the financial sector, HR and the news media.

The UK has a shortage of social science graduates with the quantitative skills needed to evaluate evidence, analyse data, and design and commission research.

How does it work?

You will enrol on one of the following undergraduate programmes:

Courses

  • Sociology BSc (Hons)

    Undergraduate degree

    Explore society and the forces that shape it, and develop data analysis and critical thinking skills, with this flexible degree in Sociology.

    Award: Bachelor of Science (Honours)

    Duration: 3 years (4 years with placement or study abroad year)

  • Criminology BSc (Hons)

    Undergraduate degree

    Explore the interconnected issues of crime, criminal behaviour and criminal justice on this fascinating three-year criminology degree.

    Award: Bachelor of Science (Honours)

    Duration: 3 years (4 years with placement or study abroad year)

  • Criminology and Sociology BSc (Hons)

    Undergraduate degree

    Combine your interests in society and crime with this fascinating sociology and criminology degree exploring justice, policing, class, violence and more.

    Award: Bachelor of Science (Honours)

    Duration: 3 years (4 years with placement or study abroad year)

  • Sociology with Psychology BSc (Hons)

    Undergraduate degree

    Learn about social forces in society, as well as individual human cognition and behaviour, in this joint degree in sociology and psychology.

    Award: Bachelor of Science (Honours)

    Duration: 3 years (4 years with placement or study abroad year)

When you transfer your degree at the end of year 1 it is renamed to a ‘with Data Analytics’ degree, e.g. BSc Sociology with Data Analytics.

In the second and third year you take some core data analytics modules alongside your substantive degree modules, and your third year dissertation will have a significant data analytics component, such as a survey or secondary data analysis. You still take the same number of modules as students not taking the pathway.

You will also undertake a graded research placement and will have the opportunity to apply for an international placement in the summer between your second and third years of study.

Placement

The year two placement module gives students the opportunity to apply their data analytics skills in the real world. The placement is an accredited module and part of your degree course.

You will do ‘data analytics work’ on the placement which could involve producing, analysing or reporting quantitative data or statistics.

The best part was finding out that the work I was doing was actually beneficial for the organisation…and may help me with my 3rd year modules.

Some of the organisations involved in hosting our students have included:

  • NatCen Social Research
  • Kantar
  • Full Fact
  • Which? policy
  • Islington Council – children’s services
  • British Transport Police
  • BBC Media Action
  • European Social Survey (City, University of London)

What our students say

  • A woman smiles outside in a grey hoodie

    Friday, 30th May 2025

    Quantitative research and real-world impact: students reflect on Q-Step industry placements

    Second-year BSc Criminology with Data Analytics students Lok Sham Leung and Arnaaz Brar share their experiences of working on industry placements and gaining new skills

  • Picture of student Miles Johnson wearing a blue suit in front of the building of the HM Treasury

    Friday, 8th December 2023

    Taking the leap: Q-Step student Miles Johnson wants to use quants to solve social issues

    Miles Johnson (BSc Sociology with Quantitative Methods) shares his experiences of the nationally renowned Q-Step programme designed to train students in quantitative methods.

  • Lewis Regan is a BSc Sociology student

    Lewis Regan

    BSc Sociology student

    Lewis is a 3rd year BSc Sociology student. He decided to study at City St George's due to the opportunity to join the Q-Step programme, as part of his course.

  • Juliet Adu-Gyamfi smiling

    Juliet Adu-Gyamfi

    studied BSc Sociology

    Sociology graduate Juliet was impressed by the passion shown by our academics for their area of expertise, and particularly enjoyed the statistical approach of the Q-Step Quantitative Methods pathway.

News and events

  • Event

    May 14

    Q-Step Quantitative Placements Poster Exhibition

    Join City’s Q-Step Centre and the Department of Sociology and Criminology as we celebrate the achievements of this year’s quantitative pathway placement students!

    Wednesday, 14th May 2025, 16:30 – 18:00

    Location: Clerkenwell campus

    Audience: Public

About the Q-Step programme

Q-Step is a national programme aimed at achieving step-changes in undergraduate  social science data analytics training in the UK.

Q-step is motivated by the UK’s shortage of social science graduates with quantitative skills. City St George's is one of seventeen Q-step Centres located in different universities across the UK.

The objective of these centres is to support the development and delivery of specialist undergraduate quantitative programmes, through the development of new courses, work experience opportunities and pathways to postgraduate study.

City St George's Q-Step co-Directors

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    Dr Eric Harrison

    ESS Deputy Director

    Dr Eric Harrison, ESS Deputy Director, is an academic at the School of Policy and Global Affairs of City, University of London.

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    Dr Matt Barnes

    Senior Lecturer in Sociology

    Dr Matt Barnes, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, is an academic at the School of Policy and Global Affairs of City, University of London.

Centre Members

  • Professor Rachel Cohen, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Head of Department
  • Professor Jason Dykes, Professor of Visualisation
  • Dr Vanessa Gash, Reader in Sociology
  • Professor Katrin Hohl, Reader in Criminology
  • Nhlanhla Ndebele, Q-Step Teaching Fellow.

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