About Politics
Politics at Manchester is structured around three themes – Comparative Politics, International Politics and Political Theory. This structure informs our undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, our research training, and our research.
Our large scale allows us to support internationally recognized research across a broad range of areas within and across these themes, including a number of distinctive research clusters of significant size. Our scale also contributes to the quality of teaching and research training in Politics: at undergraduate level we offer a wide range of courses that build directly on research expertise, and our postgraduate community of approximately 150 MA students and 60 PhD students provides a vibrant and varied environment.
Politics works within the framework of the School of Social Sciences and the broader University which provides both a wide range of resources and considerable opportunities for collaboration in all aspects of teaching and research.
Our overarching strategy is to promote research of the highest quality in the context of a dynamic research environment that balances the benefits of specialist research groups with the breadth of research interests across our three themes; and to continuously develop and improve our teaching with a focus on the integration of the active research experience of staff and the development of independent research skills in students.