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PhD Research Training

The Centre is committed to supporting PhD students and encourages them to become involved in its programme of research through attendance at the Centre's PhD seminar series, general seminar series, public lectures and project workshops.

If you are interested in enrolling to do a PhD in literature at SOAS or UCL:

Please note that you cannot enrol as a PhD student with the Centre itself. You must enrol through one of the UCL or SOAS Departments.

The Centre draws together researchers who are members of various departments at UCL, SOAS and other British and Overseas institutions for specific research projects. We therefore have access to a wide network of scholars and are most happy to direct you to departments and supervisors. However, before contacting us, we recommend that you first contact student recruitment to request a handbook:

UCL Student Recruitment: degree-info@ucl.ac.uk

SOAS Student Recruitment:study@soas.ac.uk

First-year PhD Students at SOAS and UCL :

The Centre runs a seminar series specifically for first-year Phd students at SOAS who are working in the field of literature in any of the School's departments; this series is also open to first-year PhD students at UCL. The series is convened by the Director of the Centre, Professor Drew Gerstle (SOAS, East Asia). The first part of the year is devoted to research methods seminars; the second to student presentations. Students enrolled to do a PhD in the field of literature at SOAS will be given information about this series in due course. Schedules are available from the Centre office, Room 363, third floor of the SOAS main building or by email from the Centre's administrator, Gillian Hudson, gh17@soas.ac.uk

Later year PhD students at SOAS and UCL:

MPhil/PhD students at UCL and SOAS work on myriad literary and cultural topics. They can gain fresh insight into their work and new theoretical perspectives by meeting researchers from other disciplines. The Centre recently organised a comparative literature colloquium for 21 February 2003. The colloquium provided a cross-disciplinary forum for discussing issues of research and research methodology in the areas of Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, and Cultural Studies. It offered research students from both SOAS and UCL an opportunity to present their work to peers from a wide range of departments. Because of the diversity of the participants' linguistic and cultural backgrounds, the Centre asked speakers to focus on fundamental questions of approach, method, and organisation, while introducing the group to their specific research topic.

The Colloquium was a great success, and we hope to organise a similar event in the near future.