Award Award | Duration Duration | Start dates Start dates | Application Application |
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PhD (MPhil also available) PhD (MPhil also available) | Full-time: 3–4 years
Part-time: 6–8 years
Full-time: 3–4 years
Part-time: 6–8 years
| February and October February and October | January to April January to April |
There are complex connections between conflict, security, and development. The securitisation and militarisation of various global regions, and aspects of everyday life, intersect with and impact many development issues. While processes of social change can be violent and generate conflict, development is often framed as a means of ensuring peace and security. The relationships between conflict, security and development receive increasing attention within development policy and practice at local, national, international, and global scales.
Understanding this contentious field requires critical engagement with the interests and capabilities of various actors, including states, non-state armed actors, non-governmental organisations, and multinational corporations.
We are interested in how conflict and security relate to different development issues, including climate change, health, the use of information and communications technologies, and migration. We draw on a range of disciplinary perspectives in our work, including history, political science, anthropology, and criminology, and welcome interdisciplinary and methodologically innovative projects.
Minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent). If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your knowledge of English.
UK fee UK fee | International fee International fee |
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Full-time: £5,006 per year Full-time: £5,006 per year | Full-time: £12,705 per year Full-time: £12,705 per year |
Part-time: £2,503 per year Part-time: £2,503 per year | Part-time: £6,353 per year Part-time: £6,353 per year |
Some of our research students are funded via The Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership; others are self-funded.
For detailed information about fees and funding, visit Fees and studentships.
To see current funded studentship vacancies across all research areas, see Current studentships.
