MPhil/PhD Gender and Sexuality Studies

The Gender and Sexuality Studies PhD is an inter-faculty programme that brings together a wide range of expertise in gender, sexuality and related topics across UCL departments. The degree is offered by the Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry (CMII) and involves staff from the faculties of Arts and Humanities, Social and Historical Sciences, Laws and The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, together with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies and the Institute of Education.

PhD students benefit from a research culture forged through connections to other research programmes at the CMII, for example Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonialism and Health Humanities. The CMII holds regular postgraduate research seminars in Gender and Sexuality Studies, where students present their work in progress, engage in workshops and career training, and work collaboratively on peer critique. Our PhD students often benefit from connections to other faculties and departments through their supervisors, such as specialist training and workshops, social networks and opportunities to present their work to different audiences.

The PhD programme has links to research networks led by core and associate staff such as the Gender and Feminisms Research Network and UCL’s initiative for research on gender and sexual diversity, qUCL. GSS research students have the opportunity to gain valuable teaching experience through paid employment as Postgraduate Teaching Assistants from their second year on. Doctoral researchers contribute their growing expertise to shape discussion seminars, workshops and a range of other activities supporting the Gender, Society and Representation MA as well as other PG Taught Programmes at CMII.

For information about how to apply see the Gender and Sexuality Studies MPhil/PhD.

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Funding

For a comprehensive list of the funding opportunities available at UCL, including funding relevant to your nationality, see SELCS-CMII Funding, Scholarships and Prizes.

Careers

A research degree in Gender and Sexuality Studies from UCL is excellent preparation for a broad variety of careers in both the private and the public sectors, as well as academia.

Learn more about how UCL can support your career goals.

“During my PhD, I felt fully supported yet independent to shape my own research. In the third year of my PhD, I received a Beacon bursary from UCL, a public engagement grant that helped me conduct a series of workshops in beauty salons on awareness of gender equality, intimate-partner violence and sexual and reproductive health. Since submission of my thesis, I have been working as a Research Associate in the School of Management, University of Bath, showing that there are no boundaries between disciplines. Dr Nandita Dutta, India