14 PhD programmes in British Studies in England, United Kingdom

This English Studies degree from School of Advanced Study, University of London presents the opportunity to gain expertise in your area of interest while also honing a range of transferable skills. 

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is the highest academic award for which a student can be registered. This English programme at 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.

Research in the Department of English brings the core values of our discipline - textual scholarship, critical and theoretical analysis, and contextual knowledge - to the dynamic and changing field of English literary studies. University of Bristol offers the English Literature programme. 

Throughout this English Literature course from Lancaster University you will develop your own scholarly, theoretical, critical, or even critical-creative, voice through one-to-one support from widely published scholars and critics.

Our English and American Studies PhD programme at The University of Manchester offers the opportunity to undertake an in-depth piece of research in the area that most interests you.

English at University of Cambridge is an outstanding place to work on Anglophone literature. Students and scholars benefit from world-class libraries, and from each other. The PhD cohort is diverse and large in number. No particular area or approach is preferred.

The DPhil in English Local History at the University of Oxford draws on the Department for Continuing Education’s knowledge and skills, which have been acquired over many years of providing specialist classes in local history, and profiting from close links with local, social and economic historians elsewhere in the University.

Take the opportunity to pursue an individual research project of your choosing full-time or part-time, with expert guidance and personal supervision from a member of the English team in English course at University of Plymouth.

The English Studies MPhil/PhD programme from The University of Exeter covers all areas of Victorian Britain and the Empire: culture (high Victorian and fin de siecle literature, gender, and sexuality); science (biology and economics); technology (print, optical and sound media). 

The English programme offered at Manchester Metropolitan University will help you advance or change your career, deepen your expertise, and expand your research and practical skills.

Research in English and American literatures has a long and distinguished history at Keele University.

The Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic is a research degree from University of Cambridge, is usually examined after three years of research by a thesis of up to 80,000 words.

Take the opportunity to pursue an individual research project of your choosing, with expert guidance and personal supervision from a member of the Published Works in English course from University of Plymouth.

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is the highest academic award for which a student can be registered. This English (Distance Learning) programme at 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.