Politics

The University of Brighton welcomes applicants for a PhD in Politics, one of its major academic strengths. You will work within a thriving and supportive academic environment, with membership of one or more of our specialist centres.

Politics Politics students at  University of Brighton University of Brighton share interests across disciplinary boundaries can develop supervisory teams and methodologies from across the university including human geography, history, political art theory and practice, dissonant sexualities, criminology, globalisation, and many aspects concerning social justice and equality.

Key facts

Your PhD will be supervised by expert academics who will also guide you towards career decisions and allow your work to draw on and contribute to the wider academic society at Brighton and at partner universities. As a Politics PhD student, you will

• have a supervisory team comprising two members of academic staff. Depending on your particular area study you may also have additional supervisors from other research institutions or external partners.

• become part of an active and engaged community of research learning, leading talks, and social events with opportunities to present your work as it progresses and network with other researchers.

• be part of an active research centre: the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics 

• have desk space and access to a computer in a space specifically designed for research students.

• have access to a range of electronic resources via the university’s online library, as well as to the physical books and journals at St Peter’s House Library in central Brighton and other campus libraries.

Research themes in the centres include:

• Social movements and radical global politics

• Critical theory and radical politics

• Environmental and climate change

• Human migration

• Sustainability and tourism

• Power and inequality in/through specific spaces and environments 

• New social and ecological visions