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All PhD programmes are assessed by submission of a 100,000 word thesis and an oral examination.

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This MA offers the unique opportunity to look at conflict, conflict intervention and post-conflict reconstruction through the lenses of defence, development and diplomacy. The MA is designed for graduates with a career in government, the armed forces, inter-governmental organisations, NGOs or academia in mind, and for practitioners looking to enhance their practical skills while placing these within a broader theoretical perspective.The course consists of 5 Core Modules worth 75 credits plus a Dissertation worth 60 credits plus 3 optional modules to the value of 45 credits.The programme is assessed by essays, examinations, policy documents/reports.

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The MA will provide students with advanced knowledge of the complex and specialised areas of conflict prevention, conflict resolution, conflict transformation, conflict analysis, state stabilisation, peace processes, humanitarian intervention and peace building within the context of contemporary conflict and international humanitarian intervention. Integrated into the MA structure are opportunities to develop operational and vocational skills important for peace and conflict mediation and negotiation, and to provide students with knowledge and skills that are helpful for current and future employment opportunities, and thus attractive to both graduates and mid-career practitioners.

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All PhD programmes are assessed by submission of a 100,000 word thesis and an oral examination. All MPhil programmes are assessed by submission of a 60,000 word thesis and an oral examination.

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The MSc Global Politics thus aims to provide students with knowledge of the political, economic, cultural and moral debates about how and to what extent the effects of globalization can be governed.It will provide the means for students to develop the analytical and conceptual skills necessary to understand and discuss:1. The key international and transnational structures, organizations and institutions that have developed in the era following the Second World War;2.

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Researchers in the Volcano Dynamics Group are interested in understanding how volcanoes work and how they affect the environment, wherever they occur, even on other planets. We are therefore an interdisciplinary group of academics, research staff, and PhD students within CEPSAR drawn from the Earth Sciences, Ecosystems and Biodiversity, and Planetary and Space Sciences Disciplines.

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We have a wide range of research in theoretical and computational physics, including condensed matter theory, modelling of electron scattering from molecules and molecular clusters, theory of cold atom quantum simulators and finally biophysics. Our team of PhD students is carrying out research at the forefront of these fields.

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Using theoretical ideas from Science and Technology Studies (STS), the anthropology of expert knowledge, Foucauldian genealogical approaches, political economy, and Bourdieusian field analysis, the work on The Social Life of Methods (SLOM) poses a series of key interdisciplinary questions such as: How are social science methods implicated in the constitution of the individual and the organisation, and the administration and transformation of social and economic life? How/why do different kinds of method succeed and fail?

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This broad topic encompasses work in several distinct disciplines; ethnomusicology; sociology; social history; social psychology; human geography; education; and marketing. We particularly encourage work that combines approaches and crosses the boundaries between disciplines.We welcome applications in areas which correspond to current staff research interests.

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Our research into tectonics and mountain building research covers the processes and mechanisms relating to how mountains form on the surface of our planet and how the continental crust deforms from the macroscale to the microscale. In particular our research focuses on mountain belts that form during continent-continent collision, such as the modern Himalayas and Caucasus and the ancient Caledonides.

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