| Qualifications |
Duration |
Start dates |
Application period |
PhD
(MPhil also available) |
Full time: 3–4 years
Part time: 6–8 years |
February and October |
January to April |
Qualifications
PhD (MPhil also available) |
Duration
Full time: 3–4 years
Part time: 6–8 years |
Start dates
February and October |
Application period
January to April |
There are complex connections between conflict, security and development. While processes of social change can be violent and generate conflict, development is often framed as a means to ensure peace and security. The linkages between security and development receive increasing attention within development policy and practice at local national, international and global scales.
Our research scrutinises and re-thinks the impacts of community engagements, international aid, peacebuilding interventions, socio-economic development towards unilinear cycles of violence and efforts deployed to achieve inclusive development and sustainable peace.
Understanding this contentious field of development often requires critical engagement with the interests and capabilities of a diverse range of actors, including states, non-state armed actors, non-governmental organisations, and multi-national corporations.
We welcome research projects that adopt interdisciplinary and/or anthropological approaches to conflict, security and development and that interrogate important methodological and ethical questions for Development Studies.
Entry requirements
Minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent). If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your knowledge of English.
Potential research projects
- Securitisation of development
- Non-state actors in security and conflict
- Post-conflict development
- Policing and crime in the Global South
- Peacebuilding and Transitional justice
- International Interventions, Peace and Conflicts Studies
- Inequality, violence and insecurity
- Gender, development and security
Potential supervisors
Fees and funding
| UK fee |
International fee |
| Full time: £4,712 per year |
Full time: £11,958 per year |
| Part time: £2,356 per year |
Part time: £5,979 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.
Links