12 PhD programmes offered by the university

Research in Department of Communication and Media at University of Liverpool is conducted within four research clusters which share common interest in critical, interdisciplinary analysis of a variety of modes of mediated communication across social spaces and fields.

Current research in Archaeology at University of Liverpool uses state-of-the-art interdisciplinary methods and approaches to study the Palaeolithic and Neolithic societies of Southwest Asia, Mediterranean Europe and Africa, human evolution, classical archaeology, the cultures of the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean, later European prehistory and Medieval and post-Medieval archaeology.

As a vibrant and international department at University of Liverpool, we offer PhD supervision for British Politics, Political Science, International Relations, Comparative Politics, and Political Theory.

Women and Child Health research at University of Liverpool in Liverpool has an international reputation for excellence.

Our Economics PhD at University of Liverpool aims to develop world-class researchers, capable or contributing to academic and policy questions at the highest level.

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.

At the University of Liverpool, we offer our graduate students a phd programme in Sociology and Social Policy.

Geography is one of the four subject disciplines within the School of Environmental Sciences at University of Liverpool and offers excellent postgraduate research programmes.

The University of Liverpool has pioneered the study of the Egyptology for more than 130 years and has an international reputation for excellence in both teaching and research. 

The Department of Psychological Sciences conducts world-leading research on mind, brain and behaviour. We offer a Psychology degree at the University of Liverpool.

The Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool is an interdisciplinary centre of academic excellence with a global reputation for the study of Ireland.

The nexus between people and language is where most sociolinguistic research takes place, and at the University of Liverpool, research in Sociolinguistics focuses in particular on the relationship between society and language, drawing on expertise from Modern Languages.