Gender and Sexuality Studies MPhil/PhD

UCL (University College London)

Ideas of gender and sexuality are the heart of contemporary social, political and cultural debates. UCL’s Gender and Sexuality Studies MPhil/PhD is an inter-faculty doctoral course drawing on the unique breadth of disciplines for which the university is renowned. You produce an extended piece of original research within the exciting and interdisciplinary field of Gender and Sexuality Studies. The doctoral course allows you to undertake a substantial piece of supervised research in Gender and Sexuality Studies to make an original contribution to the discipline that is worthy of publication. Recent doctoral theses have included: ‘The (In)Visible father: Lesbian Motherhood and Artificial Insemination in Britain from the Seventies to Late Eighties’, ‘Being Queer and Jewish: a Cross-Cultural Study of Ethno-Religious Experiences and Divides’; ‘Mapping Intimacy and Pleasure in a Beauty Salon: First-Generation Migrant Women from South Asia in London’. The PhD is offered by the Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry (CMII) within the School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS). Research students can specialise in any aspect of gender or sexuality studies for which supervision is available. Supervision is available from world-leading researchers from SELCS and CMII, with 83 percent of SELCS-CMII research activity being graded 4 ‘world leading’ and 3 ‘internationally excellent’ in the REF 2021. We also work with supervisors from other departments in the faculty of Arts and Humanities, as well as staff at the faculties of Social and Historical Sciences, Laws and Built Environment, together with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies and the Institute of Education. This MPhil/PhD is for applicants with a strong interest in conducting multi-disciplinary research, who may have completed post-graduate training or study and want to develop an advanced critical analysis in a specific research area. The course is for graduates with a background or interest in gender or sexuality studies which may include disciplines such as anthropology, development studies, education, history, literary or film studies. It is suitable for both recent Masters graduates as well as early or mid-career professionals.