German MPhil/PhD

UCL (University College London)

The German MPhil/PhD offers a tightly structured doctoral degree programme in a variety of research fields ranging from medieval German to gender studies to modern German film. Recent graduates from the programme have gone on to work in diverse sectors including academia, curatorship and the media.Academic research may be pursued in medieval German literature, German history, German art history, a broad range of German and Austrian literary and cultural studies, and German sociolinguistics and translation theory. With our cross-disciplinary approach, supervision and mentorship is available from experts with international and national contacts and collaborations across policy, government, cultural institutions, academia and industry. Training courses are designed on an individual basis by the student's supervisor and generally involve participation in activities offered by the department of the primary supervisor. You will participate in a mandatory CMII skills seminar programme and attend departmental seminar sessions which may be subject specific or interdisciplinary. Regular research seminars are also run by individual PhD courses and research centres, such as Gender and Sexuality Studies, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies, Health Humanities, French and Francophone Studies, Translation Studies, Film Studies, and Comparative Literature. All students are welcome to attend relevant sessions, offering opportunities for cross-fertilisation of ideas. This MPhil/PhD is for applicants with a strong interest in conducting multi-disciplinary research, who may have completed postgraduate training or study and want to develop an advanced critical analysis in a specific research area. The course is for applicants with a background or interest in the German language and linguistics; German literature, thought, history, politics, theory and film. It is suitable for both recent Master's graduates as well as early or mid-career professionals.