Undertaking a PhD allows you to develop in-depth knowledge and make a meaningful contribution to your chosen field. With expert guidance from a single supervisor or two co-supervisors, you'll carry out an extensive independent research project on a topic of your choice and produce a thesis of up to 100,000 words. This degree presents the opportunity to gain expertise in your area of interest while also honing a range of transferable skills. On graduating, you'll be very well prepared for specialist career paths both within academia and beyond. If you study full time, you'll usually complete your PhD in three years. You can fit your studies around other commitments by studying part time, in which case your PhD will take five years to complete. Whether you study full time or part time, you'll have the option to spend an additional year writing up, depending on how your research is progressing.<br><br>The Environmental Humanities Research Group investigates the relationships between human creativity, social life and the nonhuman world. Based in Leeds's School of English, but working across disciplines, we collaborate with academic and non-academic partners to conduct cutting-edge scholarship on literature and culture in the context of the global environmental crisis. Our interests range widely, prominent themes in work by group members include: postcolonial ecocriticism, eighteenth-century and Romantic studies, twentieth-century and contemporary poetry, animal studies and the ‘Anthropocene'.