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Doctorate in International Relations
This fully accredited part-time Doctorate in International Relations at School for International Training is designed for working professionals in international affairs with an interest in peacebuilding, conflict and refugee response, and humanitarian affairs.

Business Administration
Business Administration at EADA Business School is a doctorate in business administration designed for professionals seeking to elevate their executive career to the highest level of management and bridge the gap between theory and real-world business challenges.

Management
Doctoral Programme in Management is organized by ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania, in partnership with BI Norwegian Business School, Norway, Aarhus University, Denmark, and University of Tartu, Estonia.

Humanities and Communication
The doctoral programme in Humanities and Communication from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) trains students to research the social change phenomena that can be found in social practice and ideology.

Society, Technology and Culture
The Society, Technology and Culture doctoral programme from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) provides tools for analysing the complex relationships between technology and society, understanding and contributing to improving the key challenges that define contemporary societies.

Doctorate in Sustainability
Developed for professionals working to create a more sustainable future, Doctorate in Sustainability students at School for International Training will investigate the social, ecological, technical, and political dimensions of sustainable transformations, the relationship of science and society in advancing more sustainable futures.

Global Education
Accelerate your career by building the interdisciplinary expertise and skills to address critical issues in global education with the Global Education at School for International Training.

Network and Information Technologies
The research lines and groups associated with the Network and Information Technologies programme from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) are organized around network and information technologies, focusing on areas such as information security, distributed systems, open and decentralized networks, multimedia systems and applications, e-learning technology, information systems, computer vision.

Tourism
The Tourism programme from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) is the result of the coordination and cooperation between research teams with a track record in the scientific-social knowledge of tourism and in accredited training programmes.

Law, Politics and Economics
This Law, Politics and Economics doctoral programme from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) aims to train professionals and researchers with a global, interdisciplinary and critical perspective to address and work on problems arising in the fields of law, criminology, economics and political science.

Bioinformatics
This high-level training in Bioinformatics research from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) opens up a wide range of career options for students, as well as academic opportunities.

Education and ICT (e-learning)
The Education and ICT (e-learning) doctoral programme from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) focuses on the study of the phenomena linked electronic teaching and learning, the institutional or social framework, and technology-mediated online learning systems in general in any geographic or cultural setting.

Health and Psychology
There is an obvious need for research training in the health and psychology field from a multidisciplinary perspective; with the Health and Psychology doctoral programme, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) aim to answer this need.

Business Management
The Business Management programme from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) seeks to inspire, develop and channel research in areas related to economics and the world of business.

Doctor of Philosophy
The LKS Faculty of Medicine (HKUMed) shares with other Faculties of the The University of Hong Kong a commitment to advancing knowledge through research and education. The Doctor of Philosophy is dedicated to cultivating the next generation of medical researchers for a changing world.

Philosophy
The Doctor of Philosophy course offered at Australian Catholic University (ACU) aims to develop knowledge and critical skills in reading and interpreting the historical, cultural, literary, philosophical and educational tradition in its making, and in its effects on the present, from the point of view of the category of “humanism”.

Photonics and Optoelectronics
Join our vibrant community of Photonics and Optoelectronics PhD students and researchers at University of Southampton. We're part of the growth of the photonics industry, including the optical telecommunication technology that underpins the internet as well as solutions in medicine, biosciences sensing, security and manufacturing.

Synthetic Biology
The overall aim of the Synthetic Biology degree offered at Brunel University of London is to address major environmental, health and societal challenges by engineering biological systems such that they display functions that do not exist in nature, as well as re-designing existing biological systems so that they perform new functions.

History
On the History programme from Sheffield Hallam University explore your chosen topic of research during a period of intensive, supervised study and make an original contribution to historical knowledge.

Criminology
At the Criminology research programme at the University of Brighton you will enter an academic community that addresses challenges within the criminal justice system and beyond, considering social, health, psychological, spatial, and environmental injustice, seeking to transform policy and practice on global and more local scales.