University of Huddersfield - History PhD

University of Huddersfield

History PhD

A PhD is the highest academic award for which a student can be registered. This programme allows you to explore and pursue a research project built around a substantial piece of work, and to make an original contribution to knowledge.

A full time PhD is a three-year programme of research and culminates in the production of a research thesis of 80,000 words.

You are expected to work to an approved programme of work including appropriate programmes of postgraduate study (which may be drawn from parts of existing postgraduate courses, final year degree programmes, conferences, seminars, masterclasses, guided reading or a combination of study methods).

Your main supervisor will normally head a supervisory team which will comprise up to three members. The research supervisor will advise and support you on your project.

Entry Requirements

  • AMaster’s degree or an honours degree (2:1 or above) or equivalent, in a discipline appropriate to the proposed programme to be followed, or
  • appropriate research or professional experience at postgraduate level, which has resulted in published work, written reports or other appropriate evidence of accomplishment.
  • IELTS is 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5, or equivalent will be considered acceptable.

Career Prospects

Career opportunities after completing History PhD

  • retail manager.
  • secondary school teacher.
  • journalist.
  • Civil Service administrator.
  • solicitor.
  • archivist.
  • curator.
  • heritage manager.

Course Details

According to REF2014, 100% of research produced by historians at Huddersfield is internationally recognised, and two thirds of this is internationally excellent or world-leading.We work together on projects within three key research themes which reflect our distinctive expertise and interests:

  • The material cultures of the medieval and early modern periods
  • The history of health, welfare and well-being
  • The co-production of historical research projects and outputs with non-academic partners.

Our research encompasses a wide range chronologically, geographically and conceptually. Spanning the Middle Ages to the modern day, Huddersfield’s historians are internationally acknowledged experts in the fields of oral history, gender history, health history, political history, religious history, social history, public history and battlefield archaeology. As individuals we are specialists in a variety of fields including topics such as the interaction between kingship and masculinity in the Middle Ages; social and cultural responses to mental illness in the 20th Century; the experience of children in Vichy France; the scientific culture of Nazi Germany; and the history of sexual, racial and cultural encounters between different national and ethnics groups in Britain during the Second World War.

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