PhD Theatre Studies

Our outward-looking, multi-disciplinary research activities are based on high-quality, challenging and flexible graduate programmes.

OVERVIEW

We offer postgraduate research students a wide range of options for independent study, from one-year taught degrees to three-year doctoral programmes. In undertaking such a programme, you will be joining a thriving and vibrant postgraduate community. We welcome students from a variety of backgrounds, working on areas of specialist interest using methods from the arts, humanities and social sciences, including, where appropriate, research through practice.

Topics in which we would welcome postgraduate research include:

  • Dramaturgical Practices/Playwriting
  • Contemporary European Theatre/Performance Practices
  • Live Art / Interdisciplinary Arts Practice
  • Media & Digital Arts
  • Ecology/Environment/Heritage
  • History/Historiography
  • Queer/Gender Theory
  • Social/Political Arts Practices and Theory

Theatre, Film and Television Studies and the Centre for Cultural Policy Research (environment) was rated joint first place and in the Top 20 for (overall and outputs) in the latest research excellence framework (REF 2014).

Thesis length: 70,000-100,000 words, including references, bibliography and appendices (other than documentary appendices).

A Doctor of Philosophy may be awarded to a student whose thesis is an original work making a significant contribution to knowledge in, or understanding of, a field of study and normally containing material worthy of publication.

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£25,290 Per Year

International student tuition fee

3 Years

Duration

Sep 2025

Start Month

Aug 2025

Application Deadline

Upcoming Intakes

  • September 2025
  • September 2026

Mode of Study

  • Full Time