MPhil/PhD Psychosocial Studies

An MPhil/PhD is an advanced postgraduate research degree that requires original research and the submission of a substantial dissertation of 60,000 to 100,000 words. At Birkbeck, you are initially registered on an MPhil and you upgrade to a PhD after satisfactory progress in the first year or two. You need to find a suitable academic supervisor at Birkbeck, who can offer the requisite expertise to guide and support you through your research. Find out more about undertaking a research degree at Birkbeck.

The Department of Psychosocial Studies brings together scholars who have backgrounds in a variety of areas of academic enquiry, including anthropology, sociology, gender and sexuality, cultural and postcolonial studies, education studies, critical psychology, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. We have a strongly interdisciplinary focus and can offer supervision in areas including violence, state violence and war, intimacy, parenting, care, friendship and love, race, racism and diaspora, human rights, citizenship and social movements, education and learning, embodiment, communities and collective life, gender and sexuality.

A good masters degree in a relevant subject in the humanities or social sciences although we will consider an application from someone who has a first or good secondclass honours degree in one of these subjects

You will also need to submit a detailed outline of your research proposal specifying its significance and originality

ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS
If English is not your first language or you have not previously studied in English our usual requirement is the equivalent of an International English Language Testing System IELTS Academic Test score of 6.5 with not less than 6.0 in each of the subtests
TOEFL IBT - Standard requirement - 79 (reading - 18, writing - 23, listening - 19, speaking - 19)