139 PhD programmes in Area & Cultural Studies in Europe

At the University of Buckingham, we offer our graduates students a phd programme degree in Country House Studies.

The research interests of historians working in British and Irish History Since the 18th Century at The Open University UK range from manufacturers to masculinity and from political ideas to the making of British identities.

The School of Modern Languages has an exceptionally broad variety of research interests ranging from the medieval period to the present day and engages with literatures and cultures around the world. This Languages and Cultures programme is offered at the University of St Andrews. 

Embark on a dynamic academic journey with Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore's distinguished doctoral program in Sociology, Organizations, and Cultures.

The Interuniversity Programme in Advanced English Studies - Linguistics, Literature and Culture Studies run by the Universities of Santiago de Compostela (USC), University of A Coruña (UDC) and Vigo (UVigo), in Galicia (Northwestern Spain), is an accredited programme which meets the high standards of excellence of the European System of Higher Education.

The Doctorate in Cultural Heritage, Education and Territory at Tor Vergata University of Rome is the result of the aggregation of different disciplinary areas and research experiences, including archaeology, art history, music history, ethnomusicology, history of cinema and theater, education, psychology, geography.

Help to enrich local, national and international communities through research by joining a team of expert researchers in the field of Culture, Heritage and Society. 

University of Hull pioneered American Studies in Britain. After more than half a century, American Studies at Hull has one of the finest collections of American resources of any British university.

The University of Essex is one of few research-intensive universities to offer a practice-based PhD in Curating. Like a traditional PhD in art history, this degree allows you to conduct sustained, innovative research about an issue from the field of visual culture, broadly defined. 

Cultural Politics at University of Buckingham is an advanced research degree, awarded on the basis of a thesis and an oral viva voce examination. The primary purpose of the PhD is the preparation and presentation of a substantial piece of independent and original academic research, completed in three years if studying full-time and usually six years if studying part-time.

The Centre for Cultural Policy Research offers an outstanding research environment and high quality supervision experience from leading international experts in their fields. We offer a Media and Cultural Policy degree at University of Glasgow.

A PhD in Hispanic Studies from University of Kent enables you to undertake a substantial piece of supervised research in the subject that makes an original contribution to knowledge and is worthy of publication.

The Art, Literature and Cultural Studies programme from Aarhus University covers a wide range of studies of the arts in the broadest sense: i.e. visual art and culture, including more recent media such as film, video and computer; theatre, including performance and dance; music, from classical music to modern rhythmic music and sound studies; and literature, from national and area-defined contexts

The Studies of Cultures programme of Tallinn University is an umbrella study programme, covering fields like Cultural Theory, Estonian Literature and Culture, English Literature and Culture, German Literature and Culture, Romance Studies, Russian Literature and Culture, Middle Eastern and Asian Literatures and Cultures, Cultural Geography, Philosophy, and Social and Cultural Anthropology.

The Ethno-Political Studies MPhil/PhD programme from The University of Exeter is an Area Studies department grounded in multidisciplinary approaches to research and training.

Students of the Media and Cultural Studies (Research) at University of Lincoln can benefit from the School’s research expertise, spanning media and cultural studies, film and television, and media and heritage, and opportunities to attend and present at research seminars, events, and talks within the School. This enables students to advance their knowledge and skills further.

The International Doctoral Program in Practices of Pre-modern Cultures, Global Perspectives and Future Concepts offered at Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich aims to examine the history of philological practices in their longue durée over a period of more than four millennia and to explore them exemplarily with the dissertations of the doctoral candidates. 

The Culture, Communication and Media programme at University College London (UCL) is a research degree for experienced professionals from education and related fields who would like to extend their professional understanding and develop skills in research, evaluation and high-level reflection on practice. 

The Media, Culture and Language degree at University of Roehampton aims to provide its research students with the opportunity to study in a stimulating, responsive, supportive environment, which fosters independent, critical thinking. 

The department of Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is characterised by its staff's interdisciplinary and global approach to research and teaching on the present and the past.