Award Award | Duration Duration | Start dates Start dates | Application Application |
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PhD (MPhil also available) PhD (MPhil also available) | Full-time: 2–4 years
Part-time: 3–8 years
Full-time: 2–4 years
Part-time: 3–8 years
| October October | January to March January to March |
POLIS staff have an exceptionally wide range of regional expertise, encompassing Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, South and East Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
POLIS research explores contemporary issues of governance, cooperation, competition and conflict across most of the regions of the world. Our approach is both theoretical and empirical; but we are particularly interested in the practical implications of how regions are imagined, ordered, and institutionalised. Our work ranges from China’s Belt and Road initiative, to the EU’s management of Brexit, and the gender and conflict dynamics of Sub-Saharan African conflicts.
Staff have leading roles in a number of research organizations, such as Prof Simon Usherwood, who is currently President of UACES (the University Association for Contemporary European Studies) and Dr Brigitte Weiffen who is Chair of Research Committee 34 "Quality of Democracy" of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). POLIS staff research has been funded by the Horizon programme, the British Academy, Leverhulme, and the ESRC have funded POLIS staff research.
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 |
Research students can apply for funding via the Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership with Oxford and Brunel, or the Open-Oxford-Cambridge DTP in collaboration with Oxford and Cambridge universities. The Citizenship Studies pathway of the Grand Union DTP is hosted within the Department. Alternatively, many of our students 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.
