Health Humanities MPhil/PhD

UCL (University College London)

The MPhil/PhD programme in Health Humanities offers students the opportunity to study with world-leading academics in the health humanities, researching issues related to health and illness from the humanities and social sciences in the vibrant research community of the UCL Health Humanities Centre, with the unparalleled research resources of Bloomsbury. The UCL Health Humanities Centre conducts impactful, interdisciplinary research on health and illness from the arts, humanities and social and historical disciplines. It benefits from UCL’s strengths in biomedicine. We offer individual research supervision from prominent researchers and a commitment to individual attention for all students. In the first instance, candidates should establish a dialogue with a potential supervisor before making a formal application. 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 skills seminar programme in CMII and also 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. The wealth of departmental seminars, events and yearly student organised conferences held at UCL, give ample opportunities to present research, receive feedback and participate in discussion. This MPhil/PhD is for applicants with a strong interest in conducting multi-disciplinary research, who may have completed post-graduate 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 humanities, social sciences, and health. It is suitable for both recent Masters graduates as well as early or mid-career professionals.