The PhD involves three years (five years if part-time) of independent research under the guidance and expertise of a supervisory team. This degree will allow you to explore your areas of interest at the most advanced level and help you to become a specialist in your chosen field. As well as providing you with a range of transferable skills and high quality training, undertaking a PhD will help you prepare for a range of careers in research, academia and beyond. We welcome applications that include practice-led research. A PhD involves researching and writing a thesis of up to 100,000 words on a topic of your own choice. Your thesis should make an original contribution to knowledge and scholarship by, for example, uncovering unknown or neglected information or by interpreting existing information in an important new way.