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PhD Research Projects
We encourage PhD applications across a wide range of disciplines and areas relating to the representation and ethico-aesthetical conceptualisation of the social and familial bond. Inter-disciplinary projects are strongly supported. Initial inquiries can be made by contacting the Research Centre directors, or directly by contacting individual academics within BRRKC.
MA in Kinship and Community Studies (Theories and Representation)*
IntroductionBRRKC's
MA in Kinship and Community Studies (Theories and Representation) is of
interest both to those already based in the arts and humanities, who
have an interest in the question of kinship/community representation
and want to develop theoretical tools and a broader basis of
understanding to strengthen and enrich this interest, and to people
studying or working in the social sciences, community areas or
psychology, who want to extend their understanding to the arts, and how
they deal with the same issues in an non-empirical manner.
Ideal for students wishing to foster or maintain an interdisciplinarity which many Master's degrees do not allow for, and also for people currently outside academia, working in the field of community or family-orientated issues, who wish to gain a fresh perspective.
Why study this course at Birkbeck?
What will I be studying?
Ideal for students wishing to foster or maintain an interdisciplinarity which many Master's degrees do not allow for, and also for people currently outside academia, working in the field of community or family-orientated issues, who wish to gain a fresh perspective.
Why study this course at Birkbeck?
- Unique opportunity to study the question of social and familial formation from a specifically arts and humanities perspective.
- The only Master's programme of its kind in the country.
What will I be studying?
You take a core course, Modern Kinships and Communities: Theories and Representations, and three options which may include:
You also take a module in Research Skills and a 15,000-word dissertation.
- The Post-Colonial Family in Art, Literature and Film
- Film Melodrama and the Family
- Queer Histories, Queer Cultures
- Culture, Community, Identity
- Community/Neighbourhood
- Kinship and the Novel
- Post-Structuralist Thought and the Question of Community
- Representations of the Friend from Aristotle to Derrida
You also take a module in Research Skills and a 15,000-word dissertation.
* If approved, the course will start in October 2010.
