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Key information

Award:
MPhil
PhD
Study mode:
Full time
Part time
Campus:
Waterloo Campus
Duration:
2-4 years FT, 6-7 years PT. There are two entry points for the programme each academic year in October and February

Overview

The Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR) welcomes applications for the PhD in Interdisciplinary Policy Studies. The MPhil/PhD programme offers you the chance to undertake a critical piece of research that is worthy of publication and which makes an original contribution to interdisciplinary social science and policy studies.

The Centre is housed in the School of Education, Communication and Society (ECS) at King’s College London. The School offers rigorous research training and supervision on a wide range of social science and policy topics centred around social justice and social transformation, including: race and racism; labour and work; gender and sexuality; migration and borders; education; inequality and class; social movements; and distributive, environmental and epistemic justice. There is a particular emphasis on interdisciplinary and critical perspectives with staff and students working in and across a range of disciplines.

Interdisciplinary Policy Studies doctoral students are members of and supervised by academic staff in the Centre for Public Policy Research. We recommend that prospective students read through the CPPR webpages to find their preferred area of research and potential supervisors.

Course Detail

The PhD in Interdisciplinary Policy Studies aims to foster your scholarly and career interests and to prepare you for the world of academic research and policy work. The programme is interdisciplinary and focuses on questions of social justice and social transformation. Students are invited to draw on a range of social science and humanities perspectives and methodologies including sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, history and applied philosophy as well as participatory, creative and arts-based methodologies.

The programme is designed for students who are interested in approaches to social and policy analysis that are both critical and problem-solving. Our interest in and interpretation of policy is rooted in a conception of policy as felt, made and remade in everyday life; that is, as co-constitutive of social worlds, subjectivities and identities. Our research illuminates social and policy processes and effects in a range of global and local contexts.

Current and former PhD students have worked on topics as diverse as gendered and intersectional approaches to humanitarianism; the visual politics of whiteness; the creation of queer communities through voluntary work; radical democratic approaches to pedagogy; the lived experience of intersex people; the care practices of adult nurses; the relationship between Blackness and emotions; social determinants of health for medical professionalism; and the role of young people in government policy making.

Head of group/division

Professor Sharon Gewirtz and Professor Alan Cribb

UK Tuition Fees 2023/24

Full time tuition fees: £6,540 per year

Part time tuition fees: £3,270 per year

International Tuition Fees 2023/24

Full time tuition fees: £24,360 per year

Part time tuition fees: £12,180 per year

UK Tuition Fees 2024/25

Full time tuition fees: £6,936 per year

Part time tuition fees: £3,468 per year

International Tuition Fees 2024/25

Full time tuition fees: £26,070 per year

Part time tuition fees: £13,035 per year

These tuition fees may be subject to additional increases in subsequent years of study, in line with King's terms and conditions.

Base campus

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Waterloo Campus

Waterloo campus is home of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery and facilities for other faculties

Study Environment

The School is located on the Waterloo Campus right in the heart of London, next to London's South Bank Centre which includes the British Film Institute (BFI), Hayward Gallery, and the National Theatre. The Waterloo campus is home to the Franklin Wilkins library, with the Strand campus and the Maughan Library only a short walk away across the river.

The School offers a supportive, lively and outward-looking intellectual environment. There are plenty of opportunities for informal interaction and designated study rooms for doctoral students. As part of the Faculty of Public Policy and Social Sciences, students also have the opportunity to build ties across the social sciences and humanities, as well as active cross-institutional links.

Postgraduate Training

Our extensive research training for MPhil/PhD students consists of an initial foundation programme which covers different approaches in the social sciences. It gives you a firm grounding in key social science theories and methodologies and invites students to grapple with experimental and innovative epistemologies. There is a strong focus on critical, feminist, queer, materialist, postcolonial and anti-racist theories as well as participatory, creative and engaged methodologies in CPPR. Graduate students and faculty discuss these in regular Theory and Methods seminars. 

Student Destinations

The degree provides a good grounding for an academic career, as well as personal enrichment and career enhancement opportunities for students already working in, or interested in moving into, a wide range of policy-related fields, e.g. health, social care, education and the arts.

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UK Tuition Fees 2023/24

Full time tuition fees: £6,540 per year

Part time tuition fees: £3,270 per year

International Tuition Fees 2023/24

Full time tuition fees: £24,360 per year

Part time tuition fees: £12,180 per year

UK Tuition Fees 2024/25

Full time tuition fees: £6,936 per year

Part time tuition fees: £3,468 per year

International Tuition Fees 2024/25

Full time tuition fees: £26,070 per year

Part time tuition fees: £13,035 per year

These tuition fees may be subject to additional increases in subsequent years of study, in line with King's terms and conditions.

Base campus

waterloo-banner
Waterloo Campus

Waterloo campus is home of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery and facilities for other faculties

Study Environment

The School is located on the Waterloo Campus right in the heart of London, next to London's South Bank Centre which includes the British Film Institute (BFI), Hayward Gallery, and the National Theatre. The Waterloo campus is home to the Franklin Wilkins library, with the Strand campus and the Maughan Library only a short walk away across the river.

The School offers a supportive, lively and outward-looking intellectual environment. There are plenty of opportunities for informal interaction and designated study rooms for doctoral students. As part of the Faculty of Public Policy and Social Sciences, students also have the opportunity to build ties across the social sciences and humanities, as well as active cross-institutional links.

Postgraduate Training

Our extensive research training for MPhil/PhD students consists of an initial foundation programme which covers different approaches in the social sciences. It gives you a firm grounding in key social science theories and methodologies and invites students to grapple with experimental and innovative epistemologies. There is a strong focus on critical, feminist, queer, materialist, postcolonial and anti-racist theories as well as participatory, creative and engaged methodologies in CPPR. Graduate students and faculty discuss these in regular Theory and Methods seminars. 

Student Destinations

The degree provides a good grounding for an academic career, as well as personal enrichment and career enhancement opportunities for students already working in, or interested in moving into, a wide range of policy-related fields, e.g. health, social care, education and the arts.

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Key information

Award:
MPhil
PhD
Study mode:
Full time
Part time
Campus:
Waterloo Campus
Duration:
2-4 years FT, 6-7 years PT. There are two entry points for the programme each academic year in October and February

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