Overview
This four-year PhD offers focused training and supervision to build core skills and proficiencies for development research.
Features
- First, our Global Development students at Queen's University attain strong specialisation in the central rubrics that have shaped development studies as a field, including political economy and cultural analysis.
- Second, the programme grounds students in the key analytical frameworks and methodologies for conducting research on development issues.
Programme Structure
Curriculum:
- Social Reproduction, Care Work, and Development
- Advanced Topics in Global Health
- Political Economy of Development
- Cultural Politics of Development
- Qualitative Research Methods and Fieldwork
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 48 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
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Disciplines
International Development View 7 other PhDs in International Development in CanadaAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
Student insurance
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- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Transcripts can be uploaded to the online application, as PDF files. The transcripts must be scanned (black and white recommended) and saved as a PDF file, and uploaded successfully. Complete instructions are available to applicants on the Transcript Upload section of the online application.
- If a transcript or transcripts cannot be successfully uploaded to the online application, applicants are responsible for ensuring that an official transcript or transcripts of all current and previous university-level studies are sent to the School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs by all universities previously attended. All hard copy transcripts received as part of an application for admission must be received in sealed envelopes.
- Letters of Recommendation: For applicants to research programs, two current academic recommendations are required from professors under whom the applicant has recently studied.
Tuition Fee
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International
3848 CAD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1924 CAD per semester during 48 months. -
National
3848 CAD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1924 CAD per semester during 48 months.
Living costs for Kingston
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Funding
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Scholarships Information
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