87 PhD programmes in Area & Cultural Studies in United Kingdom

Work alongside specialist experts on the MPhil/PhD in Intercultural Communication offered at the University of Warwick. 

Religious lives are lived out in specific localities, from busy urban neighbourhoods to rural and coastal communities. This Place, Pilgrimage, Culture and Performance programme is offered at The Open University UK.

Tomorrow's leading academic or a practitioner with specialist expertise on East Asia? Either way, the University of Sheffield will help you to realise your ambition as a PhD student in East Asian Studies.

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 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. 

Ethnology, Folklore, and Ethnomusicology at University of Aberdeen are disciplines built on the study of culture in context.

The Area Studies (South Asia) programme offered by University of Oxford is a research-based course exploring South Asia through interdisciplinary approaches, covering politics, gender, history, anthropology, economics, and international relations.

The Area Studies (Latin America) programme offered by University of Oxford is a research-based course exploring Latin America through interdisciplinary approaches, covering politics, economics, sociology, religion, and international relations.

The DPhil in Area Studies (China) is a research-based course focused on contemporary China through topics like politics, sociology, economics, history, and culture; using interdisciplinary social science approaches. The Area Studies (China) programme is offered at University of Oxford.

We offer supervision in Refugee Care at University of Essex, allowing you to undertake research that introduces a therapeutic dimension and psychosocial perspectives to your work with asylum seekers, refugees and other involuntarily dislocated persons.

The Media and Cultural Studies PhD at Birmingham City University research degree will help you achieve a career in media research or academia. Your research will be delivered over three years (full time) or four years (part-time or distance learning).

Art is where cultural, creative and historical characteristics are expressed–in timeless works that ultimately belong to us all. Cultural Art History at Warnborough College fully explores the cultural cross-fertilization of traditions manifested in works of art—and the influences underlying their production.

The Gender and Otherness in the Humanities (GOTH) research group at The Open University UK engages with various fields, including English Literature, Creative Writing, Music, History, Theatre Studies, Art History and Classical Studies, to explore topics related to themes of gender and otherness.  

The Postcolonial and Global Literatures research group at The Open University UK has contributed to major externally-funded projects, including: Making Britain: South Asian Visions of Home and Abroad, 1870–1950, and City Fictions of the New India: Literature, Infrastructure, Citizenship.

In the Modern Languages and Cultures programme from the University of Glasgow, we have expertise and supervision in language, culture, sociolinguistics, literature and history for the subjects of French, German, Hispanic, Italian and Slavonic Studies, alongside a strong postgraduate community in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies.

Develop your own original research in an environment with a strong transnational and transcultural perspective. We offer a Critical Theory and Cultural Studies degree at University of Nottingham. 

The Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies PhD at University of Leeds involves three years (five years if part-time) of independent research under the guidance and expertise of a supervisory team. 

Within the Languages and Cultures programme from University of Essex we aim to provide our research students with work and storage space, including laboratory facilities and access to online bibliographies, corpora and other resources.

Multicultural Life, Citizenship, Difference, Political Conflict and Social Divisions research is part of the Sociology research group at The Open University UK.

Exploring the literature and culture of the Celtic West and the Old North with our Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Studies degree at the University of Aberdeen.