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SSEES offers two advanced research degrees (full- or part-time) requiring the submission of a thesis: the MPhil (40-60,000 words) and the PhD (80-100,000 words).
- The PhD thesis must provide a distinct and original contribution to the knowledge of the subject.
- The MPhil thesis should form a record of original investigation or an ordered and critical exposition of existing knowledge.
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- Part-time: 5 years
All MPhil/PhD students at SSEES follow the Skills Development Programme of theÌýÌýand must fulfill the requirements of the UK Research Councils (SSEES is an active part of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê's ESRC Doctoral Training Centre).
Further information can be found in the SSEES PhD Handbook:
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Some examples of recent or ongoing research projects are:
Economics and Business
-Competition and Entrepreneurship as Engines of Growth
-Economics of Health Behaviours in the Russian Federation
History
-Being European: Russian Travel Writing and the Balkans, 1804–1877
-Being without a State: the Thought of Petr Kropotkin between Statehood and Statelessness
Languages and Culture
-Cinematic Bordelands: Ukrainian Poetic Cinema and the ‘Experiential Ethnographic Modality’
-The Portrayal of Female Sexual Desire in 20th-century Czech Literature
Politics and Sociology
-Electoral Performance of Popularist Radical Right Parties
-Gender in the Croatian Nationalist Struggle
Benefits of studying in SSEES as a PhD student
- An extensive array of training courses in social science methodology, humanities (and some languages) is provided by SSEES.
- Paid teaching experience is often available.
- Regular opportunities to present research at seminars within SSEES and externally.
- Opportunities for field work in the SSEES region.
- The department has close ties with UK and overseas universities.
- AnÌýactive research seminar and conference programme, with talks from leading scholars in our disciplines.
- A large and vibrant community of postgraduate students across our disciplines.
- Access to the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê and theÌý, one of the leading research libraries in the UK for the study of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
- Location in Bloomsbury, London: close to British Library, British Museum, University of London Library and other prominent research centres.
- The opportunity to contribute to two major student-run ventures:
, which publishes articles and book reviews written by research and Masters students as well as established scholars.
Postgraduates at SSEES co-organize the International Postgraduate Student Conference, which is held every second year at SSEES (and at other universities around the world in alternate years).