Programme aims The PhD programme aims to offer knowledge and expertise to take you on to a role in Higher Education, or employment requiring high-level skills in research or advanced subject knowledge. Distinctive features The School has a dynamic interdisciplinary research culture with a variety of seminar series; The School offers a wide selection of research training opportunities, including a thesis workshop and reading groups; Continuing PhD students attend a fortnightly reading group and a weekly skills training session; PhD students are encouraged to publish; The School has a dedicated suite for its research students with computing facilities, networked information and access to email and Internet; As from their second year, students have the opportunity for teaching on the School’s undergraduate degree programmes, and receive mentoring sessions from a full-time member of staff; The School makes funding available each year for postgraduate research students who wish to attend conferences or undertake library archive visits that are related to their PhD studies.