Our research has impacted on legislation and social issues, including Parliamentary procedures and debates public policy professional standards economic models public environmental awareness conservation policy and resource management practices and professional body test practice. Our impressive staff includes political scientists, social and political theorists and historians. International and interdisciplinary research projects and collaborations are regularly undertaken and staff members are supported to build upon the existing expertise within the school. Research is broadly themed around the following research centres and groups: British Politics European Union Studies Idealism and the New Liberalism Legislative Studies Political Economy Security Studies Middle East Study Group Poetry and Politics ERCS and the South Asia Project. During your PhD, you will research and write a dissertation of 70,000 to 100,000 words on a topic chosen in conjunction with your supervisor.