| 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. 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.
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
- Inequality, violence and insecurity
- Gender, development and security
- Critical terrorism studies
- Nexus between conflict and development
Potential supervisors
Fees and funding
| UK fee |
International fee |
| Full-time: £4,786 per year |
Full-time: £12,146 per year |
| Part-time: £2,393 per year |
Part-time: £6,073 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.
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