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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Main Campus
Full Time
Jan 2026
3 Year
Our PhD Russian and East European Studies programme will enable you to carry out a piece of significant, original research under the supervision of our academics. Staff in Russian and East European Studies conduct research of an interdisciplinary nature across a broad range of subjects, including: 19th and 20th-century literature and intellectual history; Soviet and post-Soviet cinema and the media; gender studies; memory studies; nationalism and ethnic politics historically and in the post-communist period; post-communist transition in East Central Europe. The discipline of Russian and East European Studies constitutes a core group of the Cross-Disciplinary Russian and Eurasian Studies Network, which facilitates collaboration in research and postgraduate teaching and supervision among relevant members of staff across the Faculty of Humanities at Manchester. Our staff's externally-funded current research projects include: Reframing Russia for the Global Mediasphere: From Cold War to Information War (AHRC); Russian Nationalism and the Ukraine Crisis: The Impact of Nationalist Actors on Russian Foreign Policy (The European Commission); Self-Sustained Civil Society in Eastern (and Western) Europe (the British Academy).
