Newcastle University

History MPhil; PhD

MPhil: minimum 12 months full time; minimum 24 months part time
PhD: minimum 36 months full time; minimum 72 months part time

Fees

Fees per academic year 2013-14

UK and EU: full time £4,320 part time £2,160
International: full time £10,840 part time fees

More information is available about tuition fees and discounts.

Research Areas

Many of the research opportunities in history are interdisciplinary and are available for most periods of history and in most geographical regions. MPhil/PhD supervision is normally available in the following subject areas:

Classical, medieval and early modern medicine
Reception(s) of Hippocratic medicine and Hippocratic Oath; history of medical ethics; history and iconography of melancholy and psychopathology; medical history/historiography as an academic discipline; genres of medical writing; interface between medicine and literature, Thomas Mann and medicine; medicine and philosophy; medicine and law (Dr T Rütten).

Death and burial
The history of poverty and poor relief in pre-industrial England (Professor J Boulton).

Gender, women’s history and the history of sexuality
Britain (Dr H Berry); the modern Atlantic world (Dr D Paton); Greece (Dr V Hionidou).

Historical demography
The history of nutrition, famine and mortality; the history of fertility, birth control and contraception (Dr V Hionidou).

History of ideas
Revolutionary ideology in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and France (Dr R Hammersley); European historiography (Dr L Racaut).

History of psychiatry
Mental health and the ‘asylum’; forensic psychiatry, criminal lunacy and crime; the history of the body; early modern social and cultural history of health; history of hospitals; history of sexuality; domestic/household medicine; travel and medicine (Dr J Andrews).

Early medieval Britain and Europe (Dr S Ashley, Ms E Redgate).

National identity, inter-ethnic relations and border issues
Japan (Dr M Dusinberre); North America (Dr B Houston); Russia and Ukraine (Professor D Saunders); Mexico and Cuba (Dr K Brewster); the Caribbean (Dr D Paton); Spain (Dr A Quiroga); Ireland (Dr S Ashley, Dr F Campbell); the Irish in Britain (Dr J Allen).

Politics, international relations and the impact of war
Modern British politics (Dr J Allen, Dr M Farr, Dr F Campbell); European fascism and the Nazi new order (Professor T Kirk); twentieth-century France (Dr M Perry); twentieth-century Italy (Dr C Baldoli); transwar Japan (Dr M Dusinberre); American Civil War and the United States in the nineteenth century (Professor S M Grant); the United States in the twentieth century (Dr B Houston).

Urban history and urban culture
History of the press in early modern France (Dr L Racaut); nineteenth-century Newcastle and the North East (Dr J Allen); eighteenth-century urban cultures in Britain (Dr H Berry); seventeenth-century London (Professor J Boulton); urban culture in the Habsburg Empire (Professor T Kirk).

For more information about staff specialisms please see the School's website.

There are also opportunities for joint supervision with Latin American researchers in the School of Modern Languages.

Research Degree Training and Skills Development

Our postgraduates enjoy a research environment in which ambitious and original ideas can flourish and they take part in the School’s research seminar series, lunchtime Postgraduate Forum seminars, and annual postgraduate conference which is organised by postgraduate students.  The Postgraduate Forum also runs its own peer-reviewed e-journal. In addition, our Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate School organises a comprehensive training programme for postgraduate students that covers research techniques, professional/key skills and provides support for personal development.