Our network includes international, world-leading scholars and academic institutions. They offer postgraduate taught (MA) and postgraduate research (MPhil/PhD) programmes. These programmes offer the chance to study world cultures and societies in depth. Our research focuses on Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe.
Our members’ expertise spans disciplines across humanities and social sciences. These include literary and cultural studies, critical and cultural theory, and visual studies. We also have members with a background in anthropology, sociology, politics and geography. Our expertise also extends to history and linguistics.
We offer PhD supervision from the perspective of all these disciplines, and our centre has a good record of funded programmes.
Our members thrive in an intellectually stimulating environment, where we place a particular emphasis on involving the international postgraduate student community.
We hold regular events to support our students. These events offer an opportunity to meet academics and stakeholders from other areas.
We develop our programmes in consultation with postgraduate research students and our members. For details of members' research interests, see their staff profiles on our people page.
Examples of doctoral research
These examples of current and completed PhDs were supervised by the Centre for Transnational Studies.
- Souhila Belabbas, ‘Kabyles in Britain: Negotiating identities in a transnational setting’ (PhD Languages, Cultures and Linguistics)
- Jennifer Cuffe, ‘The impact of Zimbabwe’s “crisis” on three transnational families situated in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the United Kingdom’ (PhD Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, AHRC SWWDTP funded)
- Alistair Dawson, ‘Criss-Crossing the Channel: The Female Undercurrent of Women’s Educational Discourse in British and French Literature, 1750-1820’ (PhD English, AHRC SWWDTP funded)
- Jessica McIvor, ‘Photography, War and Gender: Redefining Women’s Militancy During and After Conflict in Ireland and Spain’ (PhD, Language, Cultures and Linguistics, AHRC SWWDTP funded)
For more information about PhD opportunities with the Centre for Transnational Studies, email our director, Professor Marion Demossier (m.demossier@soton.ac.uk).