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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Main Campus
Full Time
JAN
3 Years
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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Main Campus
Full Time
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3 Years
PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Main Campus
Full Time
JAN
3 Years
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Our PhD Japanese Studies programme will enable you to carry out a piece of significant, original research at a department that focuses on modern and contemporary Japan. Japanese Studies was established at Manchester in 2007, and has quickly grown a large undergraduate programme with a small but expanding graduate cluster attached.We offer supervision of postgraduate research projects connected to the broader issues of gender, education, religion, society and history.In particular, we offer specialist supervision on mass culture, subcultural formations and cultural production, contemporary and modern religious organisations and movements, modern medical and educational and cultural history, and gender and women in culture, medicine, reproduction, and society.
Students require Bachelors (Honours) degree at 2:1 level or above (or its international equivalent) in a related subject; and a UK Master's degree with an overall average of 65% or higher, with a minimum of 65% in the dissertation and with no mark below 55% (or its international equivalent) in a related subject.
Students living in
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£6,000 per year
Students from Domestic
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£22,500 per year
Students from EU
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£22,500 per year
Students from International
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