Research Degrees
As the UK's national centre for the support of researchers and promotion of research in the humanities and social sciences, we offer a unique scholarly community in which to pursue doctoral research.
Six of the School's 10 institutes offer doctoral research supervision in their specialist areas of expertise in the humanities and social sciences:
- Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS)
- Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICwS)
- Institute of English Studies (IES)
- Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS)
- Institute of Historical Research (IHR)
- The Warburg Institute (WI)
Our research students are offered a varied and challenging research training programme, with general research skills training and research methodologies courses provided through the School and subject-specific training provided within the institutes.
Dhan Zunino Singh (Argentina)
PhD topic: The history of the Buenos Aires underground railways (c.1880-1940)
"I found the Institute of Historical Research a perfect place to study. It has a centre devoted to the history of the metropolis and it is very well networked with archives, libraries, and museums which are useful for my research. The courses on offer aim at developing research skills such as methods and theories, the use of software and databases, and they are crucially oriented at linking the students with the archives. The work that I have been able to carry out in libraries and archives is one of the most fascinating experiences that I have had in the UK. The excellent sources and resources managed by them, the practical organisation of their collections, and the comfort for working they offer, have been crucial in the development of my studies.”
Prof. Iwan Morgan, Institute for the Study of the Americas, talks about the Phd's and courses on offer at the School of Advanced Study during the School’s Postgraduate Open Day in February 2012.
