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African Studies – (Ph.D.)
The University of Edinburgh
School of Social and Political Science
| Application Deadline: | April 15th (ESRC funding); July 22nd (Applications) | ||
| Location: | Edinburgh / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 36 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of The University of Edinburgh
Programme Structure
Usually undertaken full-time over three years, or part-time over six years, the PhD in African Studies is a research degree in which students make an original contribution to our knowledge of Africa by pursuing an extended and focused piece of research on a topic of interest to them. The Centre of African Studies is supported by the Graduate School of Social and Political Science and this enables students to acquire a broader set of transferable and research skills during their time studying for their PhD.
Each PhD researcher belongs to at least one of the research themes in Centre of African Studies, and possibly also research clusters in other subjects within the School. PhD researchers are encouraged to actively participate and take part in research group activities.
Areas of research interest:
* African Politics
* Religion and Society
* Science, Technology and Development
* Boundaries and Borderlands
* Anthropology, landscape & environment
Contents
PhD researchers are allocated two supervisors, who will offer expert advice through the entire research process, from advising on the choice of any initial training courses, developing research questions and an extended research proposal, to fieldwork, data analysis, presenting and publishing findings, writing up the thesis, overcoming the final hurdle of the viva and moving onto the next stage of students career. There are regular, supportive reviews of progress and the Centres Postgraduate Advisor is available to offer additional advice and deal with problems. The supervisors and Postgraduate Advisor are the formal component of a much broader informal network of support, advice and supervision.
Research Training
Many students choose to undertake an MSc by Research in African Studies prior to proceeding with doctoral research and if they do so they will follow a formal programme of research training, jointly co-ordinated by the Centre of African Studies and the Graduate School in Social and Political Science.
Alternatively, students with an appropriate background may choose not to complete an MSc by Research and will instead take an appropriate suite of courses during the first year of their PhD registration.
Accreditation
This programme (as a stand-alone or combined with the MSc by research) has ESRC-recognition.
Faculty
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