115 Part-time PhD programmes in Area & Cultural Studies

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.

The Communication and Culture PhD degree delivered by Toronto Metropolitan University provides a thorough grounding in theory and method, and the practices, processes and technologies of contemporary, media-immersed cultures.

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 PhD in English, Culture and Communication programme from Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University aims to help candidates produce academic results that contribute to the discipline and wider communities. We equip our students with theories and skills, provide academic support, and link them with industry, society and the globe.

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. 

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.

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.  

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. 

Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex engages critically with the study of everyday life – with the ‘deep ordinariness’ of the world.

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.

The PhD in Caribbean and Latin American Studies at University of Buckingham enables graduate students to pursue in-depth research under expert supervision on the history, culture, social anthropology, and politics of this area. 

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

We are one of the longest established and most broadly-based centres for the study of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies in the UK. We offer a Latin American Studies degree at the University of Liverpool.

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. 

This PhD degree in Critical Diversity Studies is offered by the School of Social Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

The Cultural Studies programme offered by Lingnan University develops advanced research expertise through interdisciplinary analysis of culture, society, and global processes.

Hispanic Studies at University of Glasgow is a small, vibrant and dynamic research unit with strong connections to institutions in the USA, Latin America, Spain and Portugal.