36 monthsProgramme duration
32,600 GBPTuition Fee/year
30 Jun, 2027Application Deadline
May, Feb, OctStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Anthropology
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PhD
Study Mode
On Campus
This PhD is offered by the Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry (CMII) within the School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS). You can specialise in any aspect of arts and humanities research for which suitable supervision is available. The department is especially interested in innovative research methods and in proposals that articulate and examine new developments in the intersection of critical thinking and artistic practice.
Potential supervisors bring disciplinary perspectives from various language departments including SELCS, the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), Greek and Latin, and Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Supervisors also come from the CMII, including the fields of comparative literature, film and gender studies, and health humanities, as well as other disciplines and departments across UCL, including the Slade School of Fine Art, the School of Creative and Cultural Industries, and the Creative Arts and Humanities course based at UCL East. Creative critical researchers of all disciplines meet through ARIEL: UCL’s Centre for Creative Practice Research.
SELCS-CMII offers two creative critical research degree routes: Creative Critical Writing (covered on this prospectus page) is for students wishing to conduct a creative critical course of research resulting in a written thesis, and Creative Critical Inquiry (practice-related) is for students wishing to conduct a creative critical course of research based on and resulting in, other creative practices than writing. They are primarily designed to facilitate innovative approaches in humanities research, to explore alternative formats and encourage experiments with methodology and forms of writing.
It is expected that students on the Creative Critical Writing research degree produce a critical analysis and interpretation of an artistic, cultural or literary work or phenomenon. While the definition of these terms is deliberately open-ended, we ask you to note that this is not a degree in creative writing and we do not expect the doctoral theses on this course to take the form of a novel, poetry collection or play. The course aims to foster work that combines critical acumen with an attentiveness to narrative style and figuration. We take inspiration from writer-thinkers such as Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Kate Briggs, Anne Carson, Hélène Cixous, Teju Cole, Jacques Derrida, Saidiya Hartman, Susan Howe, and Maggie Nelson, among others.
Potential supervisors bring disciplinary perspectives from various language departments including SELCS, the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), Greek and Latin, and Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Supervisors also come from the CMII, including the fields of comparative literature, film and gender studies, and health humanities, as well as other disciplines and departments across UCL, including the Slade School of Fine Art, the School of Creative and Cultural Industries, and the Creative Arts and Humanities course based at UCL East. Creative critical researchers of all disciplines meet through ARIEL: UCL’s Centre for Creative Practice Research.
SELCS-CMII offers two creative critical research degree routes: Creative Critical Writing (covered on this prospectus page) is for students wishing to conduct a creative critical course of research resulting in a written thesis, and Creative Critical Inquiry (practice-related) is for students wishing to conduct a creative critical course of research based on and resulting in, other creative practices than writing. They are primarily designed to facilitate innovative approaches in humanities research, to explore alternative formats and encourage experiments with methodology and forms of writing.
It is expected that students on the Creative Critical Writing research degree produce a critical analysis and interpretation of an artistic, cultural or literary work or phenomenon. While the definition of these terms is deliberately open-ended, we ask you to note that this is not a degree in creative writing and we do not expect the doctoral theses on this course to take the form of a novel, poetry collection or play. The course aims to foster work that combines critical acumen with an attentiveness to narrative style and figuration. We take inspiration from writer-thinkers such as Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Kate Briggs, Anne Carson, Hélène Cixous, Teju Cole, Jacques Derrida, Saidiya Hartman, Susan Howe, and Maggie Nelson, among others.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Anthropology
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PhD
Study Mode
On Campus
This PhD is offered by the Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry (CMII) within the School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS). You can specialise in any aspect of arts and humanities research for which suitable supervision is available. The department is especially interested in innovative research methods and in proposals that articulate and examine new developments in the intersection of critical thinking and artistic practice.
Potential supervisors bring disciplinary perspectives from various language departments including SELCS, the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), Greek and Latin, and Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Supervisors also come from the CMII, including the fields of comparative literature, film and gender studies, and health humanities, as well as other disciplines and departments across UCL, including the Slade School of Fine Art, the School of Creative and Cultural Industries, and the Creative Arts and Humanities course based at UCL East. Creative critical researchers of all disciplines meet through ARIEL: UCL’s Centre for Creative Practice Research.
SELCS-CMII offers two creative critical research degree routes: Creative Critical Writing (covered on this prospectus page) is for students wishing to conduct a creative critical course of research resulting in a written thesis, and Creative Critical Inquiry (practice-related) is for students wishing to conduct a creative critical course of research based on and resulting in, other creative practices than writing. They are primarily designed to facilitate innovative approaches in humanities research, to explore alternative formats and encourage experiments with methodology and forms of writing.
It is expected that students on the Creative Critical Writing research degree produce a critical analysis and interpretation of an artistic, cultural or literary work or phenomenon. While the definition of these terms is deliberately open-ended, we ask you to note that this is not a degree in creative writing and we do not expect the doctoral theses on this course to take the form of a novel, poetry collection or play. The course aims to foster work that combines critical acumen with an attentiveness to narrative style and figuration. We take inspiration from writer-thinkers such as Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Kate Briggs, Anne Carson, Hélène Cixous, Teju Cole, Jacques Derrida, Saidiya Hartman, Susan Howe, and Maggie Nelson, among others.
Potential supervisors bring disciplinary perspectives from various language departments including SELCS, the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), Greek and Latin, and Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Supervisors also come from the CMII, including the fields of comparative literature, film and gender studies, and health humanities, as well as other disciplines and departments across UCL, including the Slade School of Fine Art, the School of Creative and Cultural Industries, and the Creative Arts and Humanities course based at UCL East. Creative critical researchers of all disciplines meet through ARIEL: UCL’s Centre for Creative Practice Research.
SELCS-CMII offers two creative critical research degree routes: Creative Critical Writing (covered on this prospectus page) is for students wishing to conduct a creative critical course of research resulting in a written thesis, and Creative Critical Inquiry (practice-related) is for students wishing to conduct a creative critical course of research based on and resulting in, other creative practices than writing. They are primarily designed to facilitate innovative approaches in humanities research, to explore alternative formats and encourage experiments with methodology and forms of writing.
It is expected that students on the Creative Critical Writing research degree produce a critical analysis and interpretation of an artistic, cultural or literary work or phenomenon. While the definition of these terms is deliberately open-ended, we ask you to note that this is not a degree in creative writing and we do not expect the doctoral theses on this course to take the form of a novel, poetry collection or play. The course aims to foster work that combines critical acumen with an attentiveness to narrative style and figuration. We take inspiration from writer-thinkers such as Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Kate Briggs, Anne Carson, Hélène Cixous, Teju Cole, Jacques Derrida, Saidiya Hartman, Susan Howe, and Maggie Nelson, among others.
Admission Requirements
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A minimum of an upper second-class UK Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline 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.
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