24 PhD programmes offered by the university

The classical Greek and Roman cultures form the focus of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University, which also encompasses the study of other classical Mediterranean cultures from the Early Bronze Age to the first Byzantian era.

Within the subject area Empirical-Practical Studies of Religion and Theology doctoral studies can be applied for with two different specialisations: Sociology of religion and Practical theology. Within both doctoral students at Uppsala University can choose a didactics of religion profile.

Research in Literature at Uppsala University consists of the study of the history of literature as well as literary theory and method.

Indology and Comparative Indo-European Philology as a subject at Uppsala University covers Indology (classical and modern) and Comparative Indo-European philology. The main weight is attributed to Sanskrit (including Vedic) and Hindi, the modern language which unites the Indian federation.

Our research inn Iranian Languages at Uppsala University primarily focuses on a few main areas: linguistics, sociolinguistics, literary studies, oral tradition, text edition, translation and translation theory.

Chinese language and literature as a research discipline is called Sinology. It emerged as a philological discipline but has in recent times expanded to encompass China-related research in the humanities and social sciences. This Sinology (Chinese) programme is offered at Uppsala University.

Ethics at the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University is at the intersection between research within religious studies and philosophical analysis of morality.

Within the framework of Greek and Byzantine Studies texts written in Greek from about 700 BCE up until the 15th century are studied. Methodologically, a number of specializations are represented at Uppsala University, such as textual criticism, literary studies, language history and codicology.

Research in the field of Latin at Uppsala University deals with texts from the entire period of the long and varied history of the Latin language, with a clear focus on ancient Latin.

The Linguistics group at Uppsala University has a broad research profile. It studies phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics and discourse in relation to a variety of languages.

The History of Science and Ideas programme offered by Uppsala University develops advanced research expertise in the historical development of scientific, intellectual, and cultural ideas within global and interdisciplinary contexts.

The main focus of the academic discipline Biblical Exegesis at Uppsala University is research relating to biblical texts (writings included in the Jewish and/or a Christian canon), studied in their original language.

Research within Systematic Theology at Uppsala University involves primarily a philosophical and history of ideas study of the religious ideas and traditions of thought, worldviews, philosophies, isms and ideologies that have formed our culture.

Our research on Turkic Languages at Uppsala University focuses on philological and linguistic investigations of historical and modern Turkic languages with the broadest possible coverage.

The Philosophy Department at Uppsala University has played a prominent role in the history of Swedish philosophy and in Swedish society generally since the 17th century.

Research in Semitic Languages at Uppsala University is mainly divided between the fields of Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew and Assyriology.

Computational Linguistics, or Language Technology, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the computational modeling of natural language. This PhD is offered by the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University.

Assyriology at Uppsala University consists of two main parts: a philological and linguistic study of Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) and Sumerian cuneiform texts from various periods and of a wide range of different types, and partly a study of the archaeology, political and cultural history, and the history of religion in the entire ancient Near East.

The English department at Uppsala University conducts research in the English language and its literatures, North American studies and Celtic languages.

Romance Languages at Uppsala University researches French, Spanish, Italian and comparative Romance linguistics, as well as French, Spanish and Italian literary studies.