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How to apply
Advice to applicants
Applicants are asked to make direct contact with individual academic members of staff whose research interests and approach seem to most closely resemble their own before submitting an application to find a potential supervisor.
Please contact one of the following depending on whose interests most align with your intended project:
- Medicine, reproduction and gender - Aya Homei
- Religion and society - Erica Baffelli
- Language and linguistics - Jonathan Bunt
- Education with history and anthropology - Peter Cave
- Visual culture, popular cultures, media studies - Sharon Kinsella
Find out more on the how to apply page.
Interview requirements
The University requires an interview for all applicants to whom we consider making an offer.
Interviews will be conducted by two academics, usually the proposed main supervisor and the subject PGR Director (or an assigned representative).
The interview can be either face-to-face or via Skype, conference call or email.
The interview serves several purposes, allowing us to:
- get a better picture of your ability to carry out the proposed doctoral project than the research proposal on its own;
- tell you what the proposed supervisor(s) can bring to the project;
- discuss with you directly any potential problems with the practical aspects of your studies and explore solutions together.