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The School of Law at the University of Reading is an inclusive, dynamic and thriving research environment where individual researchers are stimulated to undertake significant and high-quality work, and which has been recognised as one of the UK's top-ranked law schools for research.In a dynamic research environment, our academics are established legal scholars who through their acknowledged expertise provide strong support and supervision for PhD researchers working in their respective fields. We take a pluralistic approach to legal research, which spans a range of methodologies and research traditions. Across all of these areas, our research challenges preconceptions and established ideas about the law, subjects the content and process of legal decision-making to stringent analysis, and provides value to external users and impacts upon the wider world.We offer flexible modes of study designed to fit with your needs. Our PhD is available for study on a full-time basis over three years and part-time over four to six years. Both full-time and part-time variants are available for study in Reading or at a distance.<br><br>During your PhD, you will have many opportunities to communicate your research with both fellow students and colleagues, and external academics and policy makers. The School of Law hosts an annual PGR Presentation Day where all PhD students showcase their work. There are also opportunities to present at Work-in-Progress seminars within the School and the Graduate School Conference. You are also provided with a research allowance to support attendance and presentation at external conferences.During the first year of your PhD, you will undertake subject-specific training in research methods in the School of Law, as well as a number of development courses run through the Graduate School as part of the Reading Researcher Development Programme. These will provide you with excellent transferable skills and enhance your personal development.<br><br>Our PhD candidates come from diverse backgrounds'some continue from undergraduate study, others from professional qualification or practice, and others from industry. During your PhD you will have ample opportunity to be exposed to career development opportunities and work experience.<br><br>The Reading Researcher Development Programme and the Preparing to Teach courses provide useful training with transferable skills. The University Career Advisory Service is also on-hand to provide expert advice on your options. Consequently, upon completion of their PhD, our students are enabled to embrace a variety of professional qualifications. Many continue with an academic research and teaching post, some enter legal or professional practice, others return to posts within their own national government departments.