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MPhil & PhD in Gender and Women's Studies
A World-Class Research Centre
Our Centre for Gender and Women's Studies as well as the Department of Sociology, which we belong to, are world-recognised centres of research. In the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, the Centre
(then the Institute for Women’s Studies) was awarded the highest rating of 6*. We're international in scope with staff and students from more than twenty countries.
Research Culture
CGWS is home to an outstanding and highly interdisciplinary research community that includes core staff and students as well as a wide range of affiliated members from across the University, who together generate a uniquely creative, critical and intellectually generous research culture. In addition to regular seminar series, workshops, and conferences, the Forum for Gender Research provides a focal point for this consortium of scholars at Lancaster.
Postgraduate Study
As an important part of the research culture the centre has a large school of postgraduates who are both doing taught MAs, and working towards the PhD research degrees. Our students participate in workshops, the annual conference in Women's Studies and/or at the Department of Sociology and take courses in other departments. PhD students can also benefit of Faculty Graduate School at the Faculty for Arts and Social Sciences research training programme.
For those of you new to Women's Studies
We acknowledge and celebrate that students reading an MA or registering for a research degree in Women's Studies come from diverse backgrounds, in terms of culture, experience and education. Some of you will have already completed studies in Gender and Women's Studies in the UK or elsewhere. Some of you will be familiar with feminist debates, others of you will not have done any courses in Gender and Women's Studies or feminism.
We have an array of activities and strategies within the Centre to aid your transition to Gender and Women's Studies. For example, you may wish to attend the first year lectures in Gender and Women's Studies and/or to read some introductions to gender, women's studies and feminist theory. The MA and research student handbooks, available from the Centre, list some recommended introductory readings.
PhD & MPhil Study
See also:
Search our database to find a supervisor
Read about our current students' research
Visit the Faculty's Graduate School website and find out about opportunities in Research Training
PROFILE: Esperanza Miyake
"I think I've been lucky with the CGWS at Lancaster: it's a place that promotes and encourages research and support between students and staff. If it means that your research happens away from home, then they make sure you will feel at home away from home."
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