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Classics and Ancient History, Ph.D.
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Overview
For all our research students, we seek to:
- Inspire you to attend and give papers at seminars and conferences
- Encourage you to undertake a modicum of appropriate undergraduate teaching, with guidance and support throughout
Career opportunities
Recent graduates have gone on to research fellowships, and to part-time and full-time temporary and permanent academic positions in UK and overseas universities including Oxford, UCL, Manchester and Leeds. As a non-vocational qualification, the PhD offers a wealth of highly valued transferable skills, and thus allows students to keep open a very wide range of career options in virtually any branch of professional employment in the public or private sector, including government, commerce, industry or teaching.
In our PhD programme we aim above all to enable and assist the student to produce in three years a dissertation that constitutes a genuine contribution to scholarly knowledge and understanding of the field, and to acquire in so doing an excellent general knowledge of the wider field in question and high competence in relevant languages, ancient and modern, and associated skills, subject-specific and generic.
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- Programme intensity Full-time
- Full-time duration 36 months
- Languages
- English
- Delivery mode On Campus
Programme Structure
Recent and current PhD topics include:
- Vision, space and time in Lycophron's Alexandra; Commentary on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica Book 1;
- Past and Present in Ovid's Fasti; Commentary on Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2;
- Banquet of Death: Alimentary Imagery in Statius' Thebaid; Leadership in Herodotus; Identity in Ammianus Marcellinus;
- The Amphiareion at Oropos: Euergetism, Honour and Internal Politics; Retirement in the Roman world; Burial societies in the Roman World; The Language of the Ancient Mediterranean.
Research students in their first year must take our research-training course 'Studying the Ancient World: Techniques and Approaches' and any MA or advanced BA course units recommended by the supervisor.
English Language Requirements
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Minimum required score:
7The IELTS – or the International English Language Test System – tests your English-language abilities (writing, listening, speaking, and reading) on a scale of 1.00–9.00. The minimum IELTS score requirement refers to which Overall Band Score you received, which is your combined average score. Read more about IELTS.
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General Requirements
- Academic entry qualification overview
- Successful completion of a Masters course with an overall classification of Merit or higher, or its overseas equivalent, with an element of research training, is a prerequisite for entry to a PhD. A research proposal must be included with the formal application materials.
- English language
Tuition Fee
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17000 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the original amount of 17000 GBP per year and a duration of 36 months. -
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4195 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the original amount of 4195 GBP per year and a duration of 36 months.
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- PhD (part-time); UK/EU students (per annum): £2,098
Living costs for Manchester
- 645 - 1200 GBP/monthLiving Costs
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
British and EU students intending to take a research degree (MPhil or PhD) in the School are eligible to apply for support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and may be eligible to apply to the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). AHRC and ESRC grants are competitive and provide payment of tuition fees and a maintenance stipend for UK students, and tuition fees (and a maintenance stipend, subject to eligibility criteria) for EU students.
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