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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Waterloo Campus 1
Full Time
SEP-25
2 years
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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Waterloo Campus 1
Full Time
SEP-25
2 years
PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Waterloo Campus
Full Time
FEB-25
2 Years
PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Waterloo Campus
Full Time
OCT-25
2 Years
PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Waterloo Campus 1
Part Time
SEP-25
4 years
PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Waterloo Campus
Part Time
FEB-25
6 Years
PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Waterloo Campus
Part Time
OCT-25
6 Years
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The PhD in Interdisciplinary Policy Studies aims to foster your scholarly and career interests and to prepare you for the world of academic research and policy work. The programme is interdisciplinary and focuses on questions of social justice and social transformation. Students are invited to draw on a range of social science and humanities perspectives and methodologies including sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, history and applied philosophy as well as participatory, creative and arts-based methodologies.The programme is designed for students who are interested in approaches to social and policy analysis that are both critical and problem-solving. Our interest in and interpretation of policy is rooted in a conception of policy as felt, made and remade in everyday life that is, as co-constitutive of social worlds, subjectivities and identities. Our research illuminates social and policy processes and effects in a range of global and local contexts.Our extensive research training for MPhil/PhD students consists of an initial foundation programme which covers different approaches in the social sciences. It gives you a firm grounding in key social science theories and methodologies and invites students to grapple with experimental and innovative epistemologies. There is a strong focus on critical, feminist, queer, materialist, postcolonial and anti-racist theories as well as participatory, creative and engaged methodologies in CPPR. Graduate students and faculty discuss these in regular Theory and Methods seminars.
A minimum 2:1 first degree, in addition to a Masters degree with at least a high Merit showing evidence of capacity to work at distinction level.
Students living in
Domestic
£6,936 per year
Students from Domestic
This is the fee you pay if the University is in the same country that you live in (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
£26,070 per year
Students from EU
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from somewhere in the EU.
£26,070 per year
Students from International
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from a country outside the EU.
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