Course details
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Overview
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This full time or part time doctoral programme is suitable for people who have a particular research question or topic in mind, and wish to explore this through independent study in order to produce an original contribution to the subject. If you aspire to a research career this is the most appropriate research degree to undertake.If you do not already have a masters degree, you may be interested in one of our masters level research degrees.
Further details about the University’s research degree awards .You will be guided by a small supervisory team of academic experts under the direction of a Director of Studies. You will be expected to fully engage with skills development and training and to present your research in a range of scholarly contexts.Your PhD will be assessed via submission of either a written thesis (approximately 80,000 words), or one that combines critical writing with artistic, creative and/or professional practice, and a viva voce (an oral examination).For full details of what doing a PhD entails at the University of Plymouth, please visit ourpostgraduate research degrees pages .Core modules
DRTS800
Research Skills in the Arts, Humanities and Social SciencesThis module provides research students the opportunity to explore the creation and interpretation of new knowledge within their field; develop the students’ ability to conceptualise, design and present their theses to merit publication; advance the students’ academic enquiry skills and techniques; and to generate and share the new knowledge within their academic discipline and professional practice.
GSRHIST1
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Year 2
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GSRHIST2
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Year 3
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GSRHIST3
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Year 4
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GSRHIST4
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Year 5
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GSRHIST5
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Final year
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GSRHIST6
Research History
PhD on the Basis of Prior Published Works in History
Entry requirements
Fees, costs and funding
How to apply
Discover more aboutour research and researchers in history and art history.
- Early modern British and French history
- British maritime, naval and military history
- British and Irish social, cultural and political history
- Twentieth-century political history of the USA
- Modern world history especially Japanese history
- Gender history
- Material history
- Heritage and history
People
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Dr Darren Aoki
Associate Professor of World History and Oral History
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Dr Harry Bennett
Associate Professor (Reader) in History
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Professor James Daybell
Associate Dean (Research)
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Dr Claire Fitzpatrick
Lecturer in History
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Dr James Gregory
Associate Professor of Modern British History
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Dr Rachael Kiddey
Lecturer in Heritage and Museum Studies
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Professor Daniel Maudlin
Professor
Early Modern History
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Dr Elaine Murphy
Associate Professor In History
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Dr Hannah Theaker
Lecturer in History and Politics
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Dr Simon Topping
Associate Professor
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Dr Louis Halewood
Philip Nicholas Lecturer in Maritime History
Funding for postgraduate research students
Current and recent PhDs
‘The role of the anti-war movement on the Washington Naval Treaty negotiations’
2021 to Present
Director of Studies: Dr Harry Bennett
‘When Reputation is at Stake: Honour, Masculinity and Militarism in the Courts Martial Records Pertaining to the Marine Corps, 1755-1779’
2020 to Present
Director of Studies: Elaine Murphy
'Trial by Jury and English Political Radicalism c.1792 – 1825'
2018 to Present
Director of Studies: Claire Fitzpatrick
‘Did the Corps have the Regimental Spirt – Military Cultures in the Support Arms of the British Army during its National Service Era’
2020 to Present
Director of Studies: Dr Harry Bennett
'Particularism or Patriotism? The political and personal networks of the Cornish gentry in the Age of Revolution, c.1783-c.1825.'
Director of Studies: James Gregory
‘Communication and Sea Power: A Study of Plymouth Command’
2019 to Present
Director of Studies: Dr Harry Bennett
‘Building to Belong: Self-Fashioning Identity through Material Culture in the Eighteenth-Century’
2019 to Present
Director of Studies: Daniel Maudlin
‘Sowing the Wind for the “Terrorflieger”: The influence of British Public Opinion on RAF Bomber Command and the Strategic Bombing of Germany and Occupied Europe’
2020 to Present
Director of Studies: Dr Harry Bennett
‘My Dear Papa: Winston Churchill and Fatherhood’
2020 to Present
Director of Studies: Dr Harry Bennett
'A Delicate Matter: The Private Asylums of the South West of England, 1770-1851'
Director of Studies: Dr James Gregory
‘How has post-reunification Germany come to terms with the built legacy of the National Socialist era?: A case study of the Norbert Wollheim Memorial at the IG Farben-Haus in Frankfurt am Main'
2020 to Present
Director of Studies: Dr Harry Bennett
‘The Development of Nuclear Propulsion in the Royal Navy, 1946-1975
Awarded: 2019
Director of Studies: Dr Harry Bennett
Now published by Palgrave in 2022
‘“The Road to Learning”: Re-evaluating the Mechanics’ Institute Movement’
Awarded: 2018
Director of Studies: Gregory, James
‘Dogs and Domesticity Reading the Dog in Victorian British Visual Culture’
Awarded 2017
Director of Studies: Dr James Gregory
‘Boy work: from education to employment, 1901 – 1930’
Awarded: 2019
Director of Studies: Dr James Gregory
‘A Strategy of Distinction: Cultural Identity and the Carews of Antony’
Awarded: 2017
Director of Studies: Professor Daniel Maudlin
‘MI9’s Escape and Evasion Mapping Programme 1939 – 1945’
Awarded: 2014
Director of Studies: Dr Harry Bennett
‘Authority and Crime, 1835 – 1860: A Comparison between Exmouth and Torquay’
Awarded: 2013
Director of Studies: Professor Kevin Jefferys
‘Networks, News and Communication: Political Elites and Community Relations in Elizabethan Devon, 1588 – 1603’
Awarded: 2012
Director of Studies: Professor James Daybell
‘The Impact of Terrain on British Operations and Doctrine in North Africa 1940 – 1943’
Awarded: 2014
Published as From Tobruk to Tunis: The impact of terrain on British operations and doctrine in North Africa, 1940 – 1943 (Solihull: Helion, 2016)
Director of Studies: Dr Harry Bennett
‘The British Way of War in North West Europe 1944 – 45: A Study of Two Infantry Divisions’
Awarded: 2013
Published as The British Way of War in Northwest Europe, 1944 – 5: A Study of Two Infantry Divisions (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015)
Director of Studies: Dr Harry Bennett
‘Networks of Print, Patronage and Religion in England and Scotland 1580 – 1604: The Career of Robert Waldegrave’
Awarded: 2013
Director of Studies: Professor E.M. Tingle
‘Tommy Atkins, War Office Reform and the Social and Cultural Presence of the Late-Victorian Army in Britain, c.1868 – 1899’
Awarded: 2015
Director of Studies: Dr Harry Bennett
‘A Garden in Her Cups: Botanical Medicines of the Anglo-American Home, c.1580 – 1800’
Awarded: 2012
Director of Studies: Professor James Daybell
‘56th Infantry Brigade and D-Day: An Independent Infantry Brigade and the Campaign in North West Europe 1944 – 1945’
Awarded: 2009
Published as 56th Infantry Brigade and D-Day: An Independent Infantry Brigade and the Campaign in North West Europe 1944-1945 (London: Continuum Studies in Military History, 2010)
Director of Studies: Dr Harry Bennett
‘Pudu Jail's Graffiti: Beyond the Prison Cells’
Awarded: 2014
Director of Studies: Professor Dan Maudlin
‘Beset by Secrecy and Beleaguered by Rivals: The Special Operations Executive and Military Operations in Western Europe 1940 – 1942 with Special Reference to Operation Frankton’
Awarded: 2011
Published as Cloak of Enemies: Churchill's SOE, Enemies at Home and the Cockleshell Heroes (History Press, 2012)
Director of Studies: Dr Harry Bennett
‘German-German Relationships in the Fields of Sport with Particular Reference to the Olympic Games 1952 – 1972’
Awarded: 2014
Director of Studies: Professor Kevin Jefferys
‘A History of the Cornish Male Voice Choir: The Relationship between Music, Place and Culture’
Awarded: 2013
Director of Studies: Professor Kevin Jefferys