Art PhD

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Supervision is available for research in the following main areas: Contemporary art; aesthetics; 20th-century British art; contextual art practices; post-colonialism, globalisation and photographic theory; social sculpture/art and social processes; sound technology and performance; text and context.(read more)

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Postcolonial Studies PhD

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Staff supervise research in the following areas: African literature in English and in translation; Caribbean literature; African-American and Native American literatures; Australian literature; New Zealand and South Pacific literature since 1800; Indian and South-east Asian literature in English and in translation; postcolonial women writers; theory; travel writing.(read more)

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History of Christianity MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This interdisciplinary programme involves staff from a number of Schools within the College of Arts and Law, each providing a different area of expertise in the subject area; it is intended for those preparing for doctoral research and combines training in research skills and methodology with the writing of a dissertation.(read more)

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Sociology and Communication MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Students undertake 4 modules on research issues and other topics relevant to their specialist interests, together with a preliminary thesis based on initial research in their chosen field; on successful completion of the MPhil, students become formally registered for a PhD; current staff research interests include: science, technology and the environment; conversation analysis, discourse analysis and ethnomethodology; media studies.(read more)

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Late Antique and Byzantine Studies MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course offers students the opportunity to specialise in an exciting and multi-faceted field of study that covers the history and culture of the Eastern Mediterranean world during the long millennium from the foundation of Constantinople (modern Istanbul) in 324 to the fall of the Byzantine empire in 1453.(read more)

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Early Modern Studies MLitt

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Modules include: Early modern Catholicism; reformations and recusants; Renaissance cultures; Scots and Irish in India, c.1650-1800; the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, c.(read more)

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History MA (Research)

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This course provides an opportunity for students to study specific areas of history in greater depth than at undergraduate level; students specialise in a particular branch of historical research and the choice includes British history, medieval history, modern European history, gender history, Islamic and Middle Eastern history, Environmental history and contemporary history.(read more)

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European Studies MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Current research topics include: Political science and international relations: European Union, especially Britain and European Union; European Union foreign and defence policy co-operation; gender and European politics; public administration in Britain; British social movements and politics; contemporary politics in Germany and European fascism; German-German relations before reunification; Franco-German relations.(read more)

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Politics MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Supervision available in the areas of: political behaviour and political sociology, with focus on voting, parties and electoral behaviour; theories of the state; political theory, with focus on classical theory, rational choice, theories of justice and democracy; ideology and discourse analysis; political economy, including economic theories of political and the environment; feminism and politics; methodology: computing and statistics.(read more)

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Postcolonial Studies MA

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Course description: The centre for colonial and postcolonial research has a lively graduate community, and promotes research through international conferences, national colloquia, visiting speakers and a regular graduate research seminar; this course offers the opportunity to work on African, Caribbean, Indian, African-American, Native American, Australian, South pacific and multicultural British writing.(read more)

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Literature and Modernity MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The programme offers students the opportunity to pursue higher-level study of literary texts and aesthetic debates from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with a particular focus on the concepts of aestheticism, decadence and modernism.(read more)

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Greek and Roman Studies MA (Research)

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course is designed for students who wish to explore a particular area of classics in special depth, primarily by independent work, but don't feel able to commit themselves to 3 years of full-time study (or its part-time equivalent) for a doctorate.(read more)

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Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure PhD

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Supervision is available for research in the following main areas: environmental impacts of tourism; sustainable tourism; visitor impact management; heritage tourism; mega tourism events/projects; planning, architecture and tourism.(read more)

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Global Ethics PgDip

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The programme is designed to be flexible to accommodate those wishing to study part-time, such as people with professional or other commitments; it is equally suitable for recent graduates or post-experience students, for those wishing to go on to further research in one or more of the topics, or for those with a personal interest in the field of global ethics.(read more)

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Continental Philosophy and Health Care Ethics MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This course provides health care practitioners and students of diverse backgrounds with the theoretical tools that will help them understand the existential meaning of illness and care in a philosophically grounded way.(read more)

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Classics PhD

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Supervision available; Department welcomes enquiries and applications for research in any of following areas: Greek drama, Greek historiography, Latin prose literature, Greek/Roman history and social institutions.(read more)

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Sociology MA (Research)

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research supervision is offered in the areas of: citizenship, ethnicity and nation; class and stratification; conversation analysis; crime and deviance; culture; development; ecology and environment; ethnographic methods; Europe, the new Europe; family; gay and lesbian studies; gender divisions; health and medicine including mental illness; history of sociological thought; Japanese society; Latin America; masculinity; mass media; oral history.(read more)

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Digital Humanities MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research focuses on the intersection of digital tools and methods with 1 or more artefacts or processes studied in the humanities or interpretative social sciences; it varies in emphasis on practical, experimental and theoretical work; examples include reconstruction of historical persons from scattered evidence; imagining of diasporic communities online; modelling of literary context.(read more)

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Humanities and Academic English Graduate Diploma

Study modes: Full time

Course description: The programme combines study of key arts and humanities theories and methodologies with the development of academic English, study skills and critical thinking skills; by the end of the programme, students have improved their overall language and academic skills and have a more detailed and advanced understanding of their chosen academic discipline; all successful students progress directly onto their chosen Master's degree.(read more)

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Sociology and Communication PhD with Integrated Study

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Students undertake 4 modules on research issues and other topics relevant to their specialist interests, together with a preliminary thesis based on initial research in their chosen field; on successful completion of the MPhil, students become formally registered for a PhD; current staff research interests include: science, technology and the environment; conversation analysis, discourse analysis and ethnomethodology; media studies.(read more)

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