PhD Politics

Our Politics PhD programme is a three-year (full-time) or six-year (part-time) course of study that enables you to carry out a piece of in-depth research in the area that most interests you.

You will benefit from a global reputation, lively PhD student body, multiple research seminar series, and expertise in a diverse set of areas of politics grouped in our five research clusters .

Politics is the biggest postgraduate community in our School and we welcome students from all around the world, forming a vibrant community both socially and academically.

Politics at The University of Manchester is one of the top politics departments in the country and globally*, offering many career opportunities for our PhD students, such as:

networking, internally and externally;
support for diverse research methods and approaches;
overseas and fieldwork visits;
internships, and;
career development.
For further information on this programme, see our Politics page.