The department has postgraduate and doctoral programs. Scientific topics of the department: “The place of armed violence in the system of power relations” and “Integration processes of Ukraine in the age of globalization”, which involve graduates who have the opportunity to participate in research, writing papers, abstracts of conferences within scientific topics.

Every year at the Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, the Department of Political Science and Law manages the sections of Political Science and Jurisprudence, encouraging higher education students to study the socio-political problems of the region on Science Days. The staff of the department is actively working on a collective monograph, preparing for the publication of a collection of scientific works on political science. In order to stimulate united research work of the department teachers, graduate students and the laboratory department students at applied research. The main tasks of the laboratory are:

• acquainting students with the achievements of domestic scientific thought in the field of humanities and political science and expanding their understanding of modern political processes;
• participation of students in the implementation of the research of the department “Armed violence: main trends”, during which a comprehensive analysis of the main trends of armed violence in the world with further assessment of their impact on the political process in Ukraine. According to the results of the project: “The place of armed violence in the system of power relations” 20 articles were published, 2 monographs were published, 23 abstracts of reports at international, national and regional conferences were published;
• participation of students in the development of problems of integration processes of Ukraine in the era of globalization. According to the results of the research: 24 articles and 13 abstracts of reports at international, national and regional conferences were published.

Appropriate material and technical conditions have been created to ensure the functioning of the laboratory.

On the basis of the laboratory there are a student political and legal club “Analityka”, which has become a communication platform for discussing socio-political issues of modern development of Ukraine, and was founded in September 2020 and a political and analytical center.

Among the main activities of the political-analytical center:

• research and analytical work on topical issues of applied political science;
• journalistic work aimed at covering current issues;
• creation and development of the plan of cooperation of the PAC with Ukrainian institutions, educational institutions and training institutions focused on the training of professionals in the field of applied political science;
• educational and training work with representatives of various groups among the population in Ukraine, designed to promote dialogue through public and cultural cooperation.