MPhil / PhD是一项高级研究生研究学位，需要进行原创研究并提交6万到100,000个单词的大量论文。在伯克贝克（Birkbeck），您最初是在MPhil上注册的，经过一两年的令人满意的进步后，您便升格为博士学位。您需要在伯克贝克（Birkbeck）找到合适的学术指导，他们可以提供必要的专业知识，以指导和支持您的研究。了解有关在伯克贝克大学攻读学位的更多信息。政治学硕士/博士学位提供了在您所在领域的专业知识人士的指导下进行重大研究的机会。该系负责从公共政策研究到社会和政治理论等广泛的研究项目。在完成
An MPhilPhD is an advanced postgraduate research degree that requires original research and the submission of a substantial dissertation of 60,000 to 100,000 words. At Birkbeck, you are initially registered on an MPhil and you upgrade to a PhD after satisfactory progress in the first year or two. You need to find a suitable academic supervisor at Birkbeck, who can offer the requisite expertise to guide and support you through your research. Find out more about undertaking a research degree at Birkbeck. The MPhilPhD in Politics is an opportunity to undertake a major piece of research under the supervision of someone with academic expertise in your field. We offer supervision for a wide range of research projects, from the study of public policy to social and political theory. On completing your MPhilPhD you will have developed advanced skills in research and scholarly writing, and will be able to use these to embark on, or further, a career in research. If, like many of our students, you choose to study part time, you may have the opportunity to apply your developing research skills in your current career. Current research spans the broad areas of: social and political theory; modern British politics and society; comparative public policy; civil society and the state; gender; public policy; nationalism and ethnicity; religion and politics; international relations, international security and terrorism; European politics; politics of development; theoretical approaches to armed conflict and international politics; and politics and society in Russia, North America and the Middle East.