North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership
The Language Based Area Studies pathway focuses on studies of one or more areas of the world, for which a modern foreign language (i.e. a language other than English) is key to the success of the study. Studies can be confined to one country or deal with two or more countries, and may relate to particular regions or sub-regions, such as the Arab World, East Asia, Latin America, or Russia and Eastern Europe. It will normally be expected that research conducted under this pathway will be centrally concerned with geographical areas outside the U.K.; research which is centrally concerned with the activities of U.K. nationals or entities within the U.K. but also requires some foreign-language research, will not normally fall under this pathway. Area studies research under this pathway involves subjects and approaches that are within the domain of social scientific fields (broadly conceived), such as those covered in other NWSSDTP pathways.
Programmes eligible for NWSSDTP funding
N.B. Master’s programmes can only be funded as part of a 1+3/2+2 Studentship
Lancaster University
University of Liverpool
University of Manchester
- MA Modern Languages and Cultures
- MSc Sociological Research
- MA Anthropological Research
- PhD Latin American Studies
- PhD Arab World Studies
- PhD Middle Eastern Studies
- PhD East Asian (Chinese and Japanese) Studies
- PhD Russian and East European Studies
- PhD Social Anthropology
For information on how to apply for funding, please visit our How to Apply page.
Pathway Representatives
Contact details for Language Based Area Studies Pathway Representatives at each institution can be found here
Current Language Based Area Studies NWSSDTP students
Pending
