English at Leicester All research areas within English are offered as:

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - campus based full-time and part-time

Master of Philosophy (MPhil) - campus based full-time and part-time

Supervision and research areas

We offer PhD and MPhil supervision in English in areas compatible with the research interests of our academic staff including:

Themes

History of the Book

Literature, Medicine, and Science

Literature and War

Literature, Art, and Film

Literature and Adolescence

Life Writing

Gender and Sexuality

Periods

Renaissance and Early Modern

Romantic and Victorian

20th Century and Contemporary

PhD description

PhD students complete an independent research project under the guidance of a supervisory team. The maximum period of registration permitted before thesis submission is 4 years full-time / 7 years part-time.

Active research (including all experimental work, laboratory work, field work, and data collection) will typically take 3 to 3.5 years full-time / 6 to 6.5 years part-time. On completion of active research students may request approval to register for a writing-up period of up to 12 months. The period of active research and writing-up together must not exceed the maximum registration period.

The thesis should not normally exceed 80,000 words and must make an original contribution to knowledge and contain work of publishable quality. The thesis must then be defended in a viva voce (oral) examination before a degree can be awarded.