| Country: | United Kingdom | Duration: | 36 Months |
| City: | Bristol | Start Date: | |
| Educational Form: | Unknown | Languages: | English |
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| Application Deadline: | Not fixed | ||
The Department's vibrant research culture is fostered by a long-established commitment to research excellence, an expanding commitment to research excellence, an expanding commitment to collaborative research in the UK and abroad, and the promotion of overlapping research interests among staff and postgraduate students.
The University Arts and Social Sciences Library has excellent holdings in all major research areas, and the Department has excellent research facilities including networked computers and study space, for postgraduate research students.
There are five broad areas of research expertise:
* International Politics with special interests in crisis behaviour, structure and history of the international system, security studies, and contemporary international relations theory and methodology
* Non-tradtional and Human Security with special interests in theoretical and policy challenges to exisiting forms of security governance in different public and private areas and across different policy areas over time
* Gender and Governance with special interests in gender and international relations, and gender in politics
* International Development and Governance with special interests in the ethnography of the donor/recipient encounter within the aid frontier; international interventions; the origins of development; the relationship between development, humanitarian emergency and migration; the interconnection between development and security
* European Governance with special interests in political institutions; public policy and policy-making; the Welfare State in comparative perspective; interest politics; nationalism and identity; British politics; Europeanisation.
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test if you come from a non-English speaking country.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
More informationEntry requirements
A minimum of a UK upper second (or equivalent) at degree level and a pass at MSc/MA level. Equivalencies vary depending on educational system.
Language requirements
An IELTS score of 6.5. We also accept other language tests; please see our website for details.