The University of South Wales is a significant research-active university with a strong commitment to developing the next generation of researchers. Our applied research interests and scholarly activities span a rich variety of industrial, commercial and cultural fields. The University offers research degrees at both Doctoral and Masters level and you may choose to study either full- or part-time. Your postgraduate research project will be supervised by a team of experienced academic staff with relevant expertise in your research area. This is the most popular route to the award of PhD. You will normally initially register for an MPhil/PhD and apply to transfer from MPhil to PhD at the end of your first year. It may be possible to register directly for the award of PhD if you already hold a Masters degree which included a significant research component providing it is in the same discipline as your proposed research and it included training in research and execution of a research project. Full-time: 3-4 years, Part-time: 5 years