PhD Japanese Studies at University of Manchester

Benefit from expert research supervision in Japanese language, history and culture. Conduct pioneering research on Japanese language, literature, film, and visual culture. Access extensive resources through your research including the Japanese Collection with The University of Manchester Library.

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities  |  Department: School of Arts, Languages and Cultures  |  Duration: 3 Years [Full-time], 6 Years [Part-time]  |  Study mode: full-time / part-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Manchester, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Our PhD in Japanese Studies programme will enable you to carry out a piece of significant, original research at a department that focuses on modern and contemporary Japan. We offer specialist supervision on: mass culture; subcultural formations and cultural production; contemporary and modern religious organisations and movements; modern educational and cultural history; gender and women in culture; medicine, reproduction, population, and society; history of science, technology and medicine; social justice contemporary education inequality We support anthropological, sociological, textual and gender and cultural studies approaches.

Career pathways

Many of PhD graduates in Modern Languages have gone on to academic positions at leading universities in the UK, Europe, USA, East Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Our graduates have been also successful with receiving prestigious postdoctoral fellowships, including the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship and the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship.

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