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  • Qualification

    PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy

  • Location

    Bloomsbury (Central London) Campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    29-SEP-25

  • Duration

    4 Years

Course summary

An MPhil/PhD is an advanced postgraduate research degree that requires original research and the submission of a substantial dissertation of 60,000 to 100,000 words. At Birkbeck, you are initially registered on an MPhil and you upgrade to a PhD after satisfactory progress in the first year or two. You need to find a suitable academic supervisor at Birkbeck, who can offer the requisite expertise to guide and support you through your research. Find out more about undertaking a research degree at Birkbeck.The Department of Psychosocial Studies brings together scholars who have backgrounds in a variety of areas of academic enquiry, including anthropology sociology gender and sexuality cultural and postcolonial studies education studies critical psychology psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. We have a strongly interdisciplinary focus and can offer supervision in areas including violence, state violence and war intimacy, parenting, care, friendship and love ‘race’, racism and diaspora human rights, citizenship and social movements education and learning embodiment communities and collective life gender and sexuality.

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£ 13,500per year

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Birkbeck, University of London

  • Campus address

    Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London, Camden, WC1E 7HX, England

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