Politics and International Relations

Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University has achieved considerable success in national and global rankings and was deemed “excellent” by the Centre for Higher Education Development.

Politics and International Relations program from Cardiff University offer supervision and/or research projects.

Distinctive features

• We play a leading role in Language-based Area Studies, and are involved in Politics & International Relations, within the Wales Doctoral Training Partnership, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

• All research students are entitled to call upon a personal allocation of funds which may be spent on legitimate research related activities.

• Our Research in Progress seminar series provides students with the opportunity to present papers in a non-intimidating environment. The series is designed to be preparatory to presenting papers at conferences, and also plays a vital role in the dissemination of subject-specific skills.

• We encourage our PhD students to gain teaching experience, however applicants are asked to note that the allocation of teaching is dependent on which modules are running at an Undergraduate or Postgraduate level and may not be available to everyone.

Career Prospects

Careers include teaching, universities, civil service/ Foreign Office, European Commission, journalism, business, politics, and NGOs. Our alumni include Huw Edwards (BBC), Neil Bentley (CBI), and Leri Edwards (European Commission).

Courses include:

• Comparative Politics, Policy and Governance

• Public Policy

• Wales, Territorial and Devolutionary Politics

• European Politics and Area Studies

• Political and International Theory

• Critical Global Politics

• Gender and International Relations