Research Degrees

As a postgraduate research student at Humanities you will benefit from a high class research environment and collaborative working across our varied academic fields. We offer a postgraduate research programme within each of our seven disciplines, alongside an integrated doctoral programme in Applied Linguistics and Film.

Our research degrees lead to a doctorate or PhD in a specialist subject of your choosing. You can undertake to study with us on a full-time or part-time basis. Full-time doctoral study takes up to four years, and part-time up to seven years. Candidates begin their studies registered as an MPhil/PhD student and upgrade during year two (or four, if part-time) to PhD if they have met the requirements. Doctoral candidates will need to submit a final thesis of 75,000 words and undertake a viva voce (oral examination). Every PhD student is assigned a supervisor who will assist you in developing your personal knowledge of your chosen research area, helping you to reach the aim of doctoral study: an independent contribution to knowledge.

Our courses

The programmes below are part of the Faculty of Humanities. You can find all research postgraduate programme information in the linked list.

• Archaeology PhD Research programmes 
• English PhD Research programmes 
• Film PhD Research programmes 
• History PhD Research programmes 
• Integrated PhD Applied Linguistics/English Language Teaching 
• Modern Languages PhD Research programmes (including Applied Linguistics for Language Learning / ELT) 
• Music PhD Research programmes 
• Philosophy PhD Research programmes 
• Transnational Studies: Society, Culture, Language MA/MPhil/PhD 
• Pre-sessional Programmes for Postgraduates 

Every doctoral researcher is a member of Humanities' Graduate School which provides a community environment in which to undertake your research and a programme of training to support you through it.

Some of our recent successful doctoral theses include:

• Music
  Gael Saint-Cricq
  Formes types dans le motet du XIIIe Siecle: etude d'un processus repetitif
• English
  Dan Varndell
  Unmaking the remake: Lacanian psychoanalysis, Deleuzian Logic, and the problem of repetition in Hollywood cinema
• Film
  Amanda J. Field
  Though the world explode : generic and temporal tensions in Sherlock Holmes on screen 1939-1946
  
• History
  Jennifer Cobley
  The Construction and Use of Gender in the Pamphlet Literature of the English Civil War 1642-1646
• Modern Languages
  Fatimah Alghamdi
  Computer Assisted Tracking of University Student writing in English as a foreign Language
• Philosophy
  Jonathan Chipp
  A Critical Comparison of William James and Soren Kierkegaard on Religious Belief
• English - Creative Writing
  Christian DeFeo
  Mister Khan (a novel)
• Archaeology
  Fotini Kofidou
  Lithics and Personhood in the Lateglacial of north west Europe

 

Research degree training programme