Roehampton aims to provide its research students with the opportunity to study in a stimulating, responsive, supportive environment, which fosters independent, critical thinking. A PhD is for students who wish to devise an independent research project which will result in an original contribution to knowledge in the subject area. The Graduate School is the centre of the research student community at Roehampton. All research students belong to the Graduate School in addition to their Academic School. The Centre for Inclusive Humanities (CIH) offers a structure through which to facilitate interdisciplinary research within and beyond the humanities and it involves a variety of approaches – theoretical and practical – to bear on its five related pathways: Faith and Society, Nature and the Environment, Health and Well-Being, Inclusion, Creative Societies. CIH has a track record for world-leading research in these areas and its work is supported by a diverse range of funding streams. Recent themes include espionage and the cold war, diverse Victorians, connecting with nature, Methodist-Catholic social action, perspectives on children’s literature, and animal baiting in Early Modern England.