Political Theory

Political Theory is a research area from Cardiff University within which you can focus your studies as part of our suite of Politics and International Relations research programmes (MPhil, PhD).

The School has an exceptionally strong research culture with a strong reputation for the quality of the research produced and the growing number of research grants it is attracting.

Key Facts

It is home to the renowned Collingwood and British Idealism Centre and attracts visiting scholars from all over the world, most prominently Professors Carole Pateman and Rex Martin both of whom have become Honorary Professors at Cardiff.

The Political Theory Research Unit from Cardiff University , has an unusual concentration of political theorists and historians of political thought and this enables it to offer supervision across a wide range of research topics.

Topics include:

• British idealism

• Collingwood

• Contemporary political theory

• Distributive justice

• Environmental politics

• European Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment

• Gender studies