Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
PhD programmes
Our postgraduate research programme is open to both full-time and part-time students. Students are expected to pay their own fees or make other arrangements for them to be paid. The majority of our students are self-funded or sponsored by their employer. Some applicants choose to apply to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) or the The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for bursaries. The deadlines for applications for these awards however is very early on, before the course commences, usually around March/April. A direct debit scheme is available to spread the payments until March (for October enrolment). Read more about financing postgraduate study.
Integral to the postgraduate research programme is the researcher development programme, offered by the Graduate School. All commencing students are expected to attend this programme, which runs over the course of the PhD programme. For further details of this please visit the Graduate School.
Supervisors
We can offer supervision via staff in the following areas:
- European Studies - Centre for European and International Studies Research, for Languages, History, Sociology, Social Studies.
- English Literature - Centre for Studies in Literature
- Education Research - School of Education and Continuing Studies
- Criminology/Social Policy - Institute of Criminal Justice Studies
Our particular specialisms include:
- European Studies
- European Social Theory
- Culture
- Francophone Studies
- Nation and Identity
- Politics and Policy-making in Europe
- Women's and Gender Studies
- Social, Historical and Cultural Change in Europe
- Europe and Africa
- Transnationalism in Europe
- Social Policy and Public Administration/Management
- Sociology
- International Relations
- History
- English Literature
- Education and Educational Management
- Evaluating Professional Practice
- Governance, Accountability and Regulation
- Criminal Justice Studies
- International and Comparative Justice
- Interviewing and Evidence
- Risk, Security and Community Safety
- Equity, Fairness and Human Rights
- Translation Studies
- TESOL and language pedagogy
- Corpus linguistics
Research students can have a team of up to 3 supervisors including a main Director of Studies.
Link to our Research pages.