Social Sciences research degrees

Supervision areas

Research degrees can be undertaken in the following areas:

ANTHROPOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY

  • Anthropology of art
  • Anthropology of food
  • Anthropology of globalisation
  • Anthropology of Japan
  • Basque studies
  • Culture and landscapes
  • Environmental archaeology and palæo-anthropology
  • Environmental anthropology
  • Environmental reconstruction
  • Human origins
  • Human resource ecology
  • Human–wildlife interaction and conservation
  • Organisational anthropology
  • Physical environmental processes and management
  • Primate conservation
  • Primatology
  • Quaternary environmental change
  • Social anthropology of South Asia and Europe
  • Urban and environmental studies

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INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

  • Citizenship theory and practice
  • Comparative politics of welfare states
  • Conflict and post-conflict reconstruction
  • Critical international studies
  • East Asian regionalism
  • Environmental politics
  • European politics and society
  • Gender and politics
  • Globalisation and global theory
  • International political economy
  • Masculinities
  • Normative political theory
  • Political communication and marketing
  • Political violence
  • Post-communist politics
  • Refugees, migration and statelessness
  • Security studies
  • Social and political change
  • Social movements and global civil society
  • Southern African politics
  • State theory
  • Terrorism and counter-terrorism
  • Theory and practice of human rights

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