PhD & MLitt

Central and East European Studies welcomes applications to study for the research degrees of PhD and MLitt. In both cases, the student has to present work in the form of a thesis at the end of the period of study.

The MLitt takes a minimum of two years, and the PhD a minimum of three years fulltime. Part-time study takes a year longer in each case (but note that this is not available to non-EU students).

Further details on the requirements for the award of the PhD and MLitt by research are available in the Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences Graduate School: Guidelines and Code of Practice for Postgraduate Research Students and Supervisors.

A one year course of research training at masters level is offered to students beginning a PhD. This MRes in Russian, Central and East European Studies is compulsory for all students in receipt of ESRC 1+3 funding, it is also strongly recommended to all other research students of the Department.

We offer supervision in all of the areas of Departmental research specialism (see Staff profiles). See also our Research pages. It is strongly recommended that applicants contact the Department and identify an intended supervisor before filling in an application form. At this stage you will be asked to provide a research proposal and outline and will be offered additional guidance in completing and submitting your application.

Research topics of students currently enrolled at the Department include:

• A Comparative Study of Voluntary/Non-Governmental Sector Provision of Health Services in Romania and the Republic of Moldova
• The Baltic States and EU Minority Policy
• The Diplomacy of the Polish-Soviet War 1919-1921
• The Evolution of Elites in Post-Soviet Russia
• Identity Construction of Ethnic German Return Migrants to Russia and Germany
• Local Democracy under Democratic Transformation: an exploration of the processes linked to the emergence of participatory democracy in the Polish city of Poznan
• Minority Politics in the Czech Republic: Integrating the Roma into Czech Society 1993-2005
• The Position of Sexual Minorities in Post-Soviet Russia
• Polish Foreign Policy Between East and West
• Pskov Region as a Foreign Policy Actor
• Russian Health Care: From the Tsarist to the Soviet Era
• Russian Women's Perceptions of Human Rights
• Transition and Regional Development in Kaliningrad and Karelia

Postgraduate activities

Staff and students following taught postgraduate courses and independent research meet formally and informally to discuss areas of overlapping interest. Seminars, social gatherings and staff-student meetings are organised on a regular basis and help to contribute to a positive, co-operative environment and a cohesive postgraduate community. The postgraduate coffee room is often the forum for lively debate!

For more details of the seminar series run in CEES, including the 'West coast' seminar series, visit our upcoming seminar page. The 'Work-in-progress' seminar series is aimed at CEES postgraduate students providing a forum for getting feedback on new ideas and brushing up presentation skills.

The Department also takes the lead in organising research seminars through the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES).

Other CEES/CRCEES activities include workshops, conferences, research days, business days, exhibitions, films and festivals, which are open to the public, and that postgraduate students are encourage to attend.

For more information on events taking place in the Department visit the CEES events and CRCEES events pages.

CEES postgraduates have also had a major hand in establishment of eSharpe, an on-line journal for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences students at the University of Glasgow. This offers publishing opportunities and editorial/reviewing experience for PhD students in the latter stages of their research.