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81 PhD programmes in Area & Cultural Studies in United Kingdom

Literary and Cultural Studies
Here at the University of Surrey while studying the Literary and Cultural Studies, you’ll join a cosmopolitan, multilingual and multicultural community of students and scholars.

English Literature
The English Literature course at Bangor University provides you with the opportunity to work over an extended period on a collection of short stories, a novel or a collection of poems under the individual supervision of a writer actively publishing in your field.

Film, Screen and Popular Culture
The PhD in Film, Screen and Popular Culture from University of Brighton has a research culture in film and screen studies that has fostered national archives and given critical insight across practice, theory and history.

Media and Cultural Studies
This Media and Cultural Studies course from Lancaster University offers a chance to develop your own knowledge and research in the ever changing world of media.

Spanish and Latin American Studies
On Spanish and Latin American Studies programmes at University of Reading, we offer expert supervision in a wide range of areas.

Global Studies
The specific focus of this Global Studies programme from SOAS University of London is twofold: thematically, the programme addresses the analysis of contemporary globalisation processes and of the political, economic, social and cultural relationships and structures that define and shape these processes.

Chinese Studies
Bangor University Modern Languages offers the possibility to do a PhD in Chinese Studies. The School has a long tradition of excellent postgraduate student support, and students will be assigned two supervisors.
Communication, Cultural and Media Studies
This Communication, Cultural and Media Studies PhD programme from the University of Huddersfield allows you to explore and pursue a research project built around a substantial piece of work, which has to show evidence of original contribution to knowledge.

Russian Studies
Do you want to be part of a stimulating research environment? Join an impactful Modern Languages department at University of Birmingham and undertake your own research project in Russian Studies.

Welsh
The Welsh Programme offered at Cardiff University, aims to offer knowledge and expertise for a career in language planning, media, government, teaching, management and research.

Hispanic Studies
Do you want to be part of a stimulating research environment? Join the Hispanic Studies course at University of Birmingham.

Comparative Literatures and Cultures
Research in Comparative Literatures and Cultures sits within the School of Modern Languages and builds on two areas of strength within the school: transnational studies and intermediality. University of Bristol offers the Comparative Literatures and Cultures programme.

Creative Arts and Cultural Industries
The Creative Arts and Cultural Industries programme offered at SOAS University of London provides advanced training and research experience at a doctoral level in the broad areas at the intersection of the Arts and cultural production and the cultural economy.

Languages and Translation Studies
Languages and Translation Studies programme from Cardiff University aims to offer knowledge and expertise in subject-specific and generic skills, qualifying you for both academic and non-academic positions in a variety of organisations.

Culture and Evolution
Research in the area of Culture and Evolution delivered by Brunel University of London focuses on cultural variation in, and evolutionary origins of, psychology and behaviour – integration of proximate and ultimate perspectives, across levels of analysis from individual biology and personality, through group and social processes to the broader culture.

Wales
Wales programme delivered by Cardiff University, is a research area within which you can focus your studies as part of our suite of Politics and International Relations research programmes (MPhil, PhD).

Languages and Cultures
This Languages and Cultures course from Lancaster University warmly welcome enquiries from appropriately qualified applicants who are keen to register for Languages and Cultures doctoral research.

Critical and Cultural Theory
Students on the PhD Critical and Cultural Theory from Cardiff University, receive supervision from academic staff with a long-standing commitment to excellence and diversity in research, who work at the forefront of pioneering research in critical and cultural theory.

South East Asian Studies
The South East Asian Studies programme from SOAS University of London offers the widest coverage in Europe of research and teaching related to the languages and cultures of the principal countries of South East Asia.

Hispanic Studies
The School of Modern Languages offers the possibility to do a PhD/MPhil in Hispanic, Catalan or Galician Studies. The Hispanic Studies programme is offered at Bangor University.