36 monthsProgramme duration
Jan, SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Modern Languages
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
Make an original, positive and lasting contribution to Japanese studies. A PhD is an opportunity to expand upon your interests and expertise as part of an active research community making impact across the globe. Join us at the heart of Scotland’s capital and festival city.
Over the course of your PhD, you will complete an original body of work under the expert guidance of at least two supervisors. Your thesis will be around 80,000 words. Our programme includes access to skills training, including research methodologies specific to Japanese and East Asian studies.
Since 1976, Japanese studies at the University of Edinburgh has steadily grown to encompass a wide spectrum of interests and expertise in Japanese and East Asian:
- history, politics and international relations
- performing and literary arts
We have particular strengths in:
- Japanese performing arts, both traditional and contemporary
- Japanese-Chinese relations
- media and politics
- the history of Japanese religion
- traditional and modern Japanese literature
- the Meiji period and empire studies
We are able to support PhD theses crossing boundaries between Japanese Studies and other disciplines, including:
- comparative literature
- film studies
- translation studies
Programme overview
Main Subject
Modern Languages
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
Make an original, positive and lasting contribution to Japanese studies. A PhD is an opportunity to expand upon your interests and expertise as part of an active research community making impact across the globe. Join us at the heart of Scotland’s capital and festival city.
Over the course of your PhD, you will complete an original body of work under the expert guidance of at least two supervisors. Your thesis will be around 80,000 words. Our programme includes access to skills training, including research methodologies specific to Japanese and East Asian studies.
Since 1976, Japanese studies at the University of Edinburgh has steadily grown to encompass a wide spectrum of interests and expertise in Japanese and East Asian:
- history, politics and international relations
- performing and literary arts
We have particular strengths in:
- Japanese performing arts, both traditional and contemporary
- Japanese-Chinese relations
- media and politics
- the history of Japanese religion
- traditional and modern Japanese literature
- the Meiji period and empire studies
We are able to support PhD theses crossing boundaries between Japanese Studies and other disciplines, including:
- comparative literature
- film studies
- translation studies
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