Health Humanities MPhil/PhD 36 months PHD Programme By UCL |TopUniversities
Programme Duration

36 monthsProgramme duration

Tuitionfee

32,600 GBPTuition Fee/year

Application Deadline

30 Jun, 2027Application Deadline

Starting Month

Feb, May, OctStarting Month

Programme overview

Main Subject

Medicine Related Studies

Degree

PhD

Study Level

PhD

Study Mode

On Campus

The MPhil/PhD course in Health Humanities offers students the opportunity to study with world-renowned academics in the health humanities, researching issues related to health and illness from the humanities and social sciences in the vibrant research community of the UCL Health Humanities Centre, with the unparalleled research resources of Bloomsbury.


Students benefit from an excellent research environment and a broad range of cross-disciplinary expertise offered by UCL’s Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry (CMII) within the School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS).


The UCL Health Humanities Centre conducts impactful, interdisciplinary research on health and illness from the arts, humanities and social and historical disciplines. It benefits from UCL’s strengths in biomedicine. We offer individual research supervision from prominent researchers and a commitment to individual attention for all students. 


Training courses are designed on an individual basis by the student’s supervisor and generally involve participation in activities offered by the department of the primary supervisor. You will participate in a mandatory skills seminar programme in CMII and also attend departmental seminar sessions which may be subject specific or interdisciplinary.

Programme overview

Main Subject

Medicine Related Studies

Degree

PhD

Study Level

PhD

Study Mode

On Campus

The MPhil/PhD course in Health Humanities offers students the opportunity to study with world-renowned academics in the health humanities, researching issues related to health and illness from the humanities and social sciences in the vibrant research community of the UCL Health Humanities Centre, with the unparalleled research resources of Bloomsbury.


Students benefit from an excellent research environment and a broad range of cross-disciplinary expertise offered by UCL’s Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry (CMII) within the School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS).


The UCL Health Humanities Centre conducts impactful, interdisciplinary research on health and illness from the arts, humanities and social and historical disciplines. It benefits from UCL’s strengths in biomedicine. We offer individual research supervision from prominent researchers and a commitment to individual attention for all students. 


Training courses are designed on an individual basis by the student’s supervisor and generally involve participation in activities offered by the department of the primary supervisor. You will participate in a mandatory skills seminar programme in CMII and also attend departmental seminar sessions which may be subject specific or interdisciplinary.

Admission Requirements

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7+
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A minimum of an upper second-class UK Bachelor’s degree or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard and usually Master’s degree with Merit in a relevant field. In the first instance, candidates should establish a dialogue with a potential supervisor before making a formal application. Admission is normally dependent on the submission of a detailed research project proposal.

30 Jun 2027
3 Years
Feb
May

Tuition fees

International
32,600 GBP

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