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 |
The Philosophy discipline welcomes applications for graduate work on Continental philosophy. The discipline has expertise in nineteenth and twentieth-century German and French philosophy, including, but not limited to, German Idealism, Schopenhauer. Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Bachelard, Canguilhem, de Beauvoir and existentialism.
Applicants are advised to consult individual pages of the potential supervisors to discover their particular research interests. The discipline has a lively community of research students, several of whom work on Continental philosophy.
Several of our Continental philosophy research students have successfully participated in the OU Teaching Scheme to gather valuable teaching experience, and have organized their own international postgraduate research conference.
Research and research students are at the heart of the discipline. In joining us, you would join a lively and friendly graduate community. The discipline hosts papers by visiting speakers throughout the year and an annual graduate conference where students give papers on their work in progress.
Minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent). Most successful applicants to the research degree programme have an MA in Philosophy (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 Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC 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.
