Research degrees
Politics
Politics is one of Europe's top centres for research and teaching, bringing together one of the largest groupings of politics staff in the UK and covering almost all areas of the discipline. Politics has a highly developed research culture. In the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, we secured a grade 5, thereby denoting international excellence. We also scored top marks of 24 in the most recent external evaluations of teaching, held in 2001. With such extensive and high quality teaching and training resources, we are able to offer you excellent supervision for MPhil and PhD degrees in a cutting-edge research environment. Our PhD student body reflects a growing and diverse global community giving you near unrivalled opportunities to make new friends, debate aspects of your research with a substantial peer group, and begin making those networks that will stand you in good stead throughout you careers.
We pride ourselves on constantly assessing the way in which we facilitate Doctoral research. We have made improvements to the training that we provide you with, the way in which we provide you with feedback throughout your Doctoral research project, introduced personal development planning (PDP) as a core component, put in place even more opportunities to enhance your career building skills, enhanced the ways in which you are fully integrated into the research community of Politics, provided support for the postgraduate on-line journal Political Perspectives run by our PhD students, and further improved access to the limited amount of funding we have to help with fieldwork trips and the costs associated with presenting papers at conferences. As a result of enhanced University investment in new academic appointments, we have also expanded the number of staff across the range of sub-disciplines in which we specialise.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for further information.
Dr. Francesca Gains
Politics Graduate Director
For details of the application process for Politics, please see the guidance on How To Apply.
The principal academic contact for enquiries concerning admissions to MPhil- and PhD is Dr. Shogo Suzuki .