International Development (Global Studies) PhD

University of Sussex

Conduct expert research and address today’s foremost global issues. Join a diverse research community and make your mark. Join our lively community of doctoral researchers and address some of the most important current issues in international development. Our PhD is among the most diverse in the world in terms of supervisors, students and research topics. All our doctoral projects engage with the global challenges that face societies across the world today. You’ll work with a range of experts from across the natural and social sciences whose cutting-edge original research has made a significant impact on individuals, institutions and societies around the world. In the School of Global Studies, we host one of the UK’s largest doctoral research communities in International Development. Here, students have a voice and an identity. Our research interests are in fields such as: environment, resources and mobilisation gender, sexuality and conflict human rights and welfare humanitarian design and citizen aid markets, labour and finance migration and mobility.