Arts and Humanities (MPhil / PhD)

PhD

In London

£ 2,187 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    PhD

  • Location

    London

Programme overview This programme supports original research projects across different disciplines, media, or practice-based research, encouraging new ways of thinking on how to historicise, bridge and transcend disciplines. Working under the supervision of 2 scholars from different departments in the School of Arts, you will join a unique and innovative interdisciplinary graduate community working in literatures, languages, media and art historical studies, where new kinds of scholarship take their place in a larger academic conversation about cross-cultural transfer, cultural comparison and interdisciplinary interpretation. Current supervisors on this programme include Silke Arnold-de-Simine, Andrew Asibong, Luisa Calè, Ben Cranfield, Patrizia Di Bello, Professor Esther Leslie, Ana Parejo Vadillo, Leslie Topp and Jo Winning. Further potential supervisors can be found via each department's pages. This programme supports PhDs in comparative studies (e.g. French and English literatures, Japanese and American film), multidisciplinary studies (e.g. English film and literature; photography and book history), theoretical approaches that cut across disciplines (e.g. cultural studies) and practice-based research. If your thesis involves studio-based, audio-visual or technological research, it may include a portfolio, exhibition or other audio-visual display. This must be original work, exemplifying and locating the ideas that are developed in conjunction with the written part of the thesis. In addition to supervision, we support students’ work through a programme of critical theory seminars, and research skills and methodologies classes. In your first year you are encouraged to think about how to frame research questions, what happens when research subverts disciplinary boundaries, and how these might be seen differently through alternative or historical divisions of knowledge....

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
See map
Malet Street, WC1E 7HX

Start date

OctoberEnrolment now closed

Questions & Answers

Add your question

Our advisors and other users will be able to reply to you

Fill in your details to get a reply

We will only publish your name and question

Reviews

Subjects

  • Cultural Studies
  • Art History
  • English
  • Media Studies
  • Art
  • School
  • Media
  • Humanities
  • History
  • Film

Course programme

How to apply

You apply directly to Birkbeck for this course, using the online application link below. Please note that online application will open in October 2016.

For information about applying as a research student, read our guide for applicants. Prior to interview, you will need to submit a 2000-word research proposal.

Students who wish to be considered for funding need to apply by the end of January.

Finding a supervisor

Students admitted to the programme will have 2 co-supervisors from different departments in the School of Arts. Contributing departments are:

  • English and Humanities
  • History of Art
  • Cultures and Languages
  • Film, Media and Cultural Studies

You may suggest potential supervisors on your application, but the admissions tutors will endeavour to identify suitable supervision.

Application deadlines and interviews

You can apply at any time for a start at the beginning of each term: autumn (October), spring (January) and summer (April).

Students who wish to be considered for funding need to apply by the end of January 2017 for entry in October 2017.

Online application

Arts and Humanities (MPhil / PhD) (Part-time)

Arts and Humanities (MPhil / PhD) (Full-time)

Additional information

Teaching and assessment Assessment The MPhil thesis is not more than 60,000 words; the PhD thesis is not more than 100,000 words. Both the MPhil and the PhD are assessed by a viva voce examination. The thesis requirements for a practice-based project vary according to the nature of the research and can be discussed with the admissions tutors. ...

Arts and Humanities (MPhil / PhD)

£ 2,187 + VAT