As a PhD law researcher at the 91¶¶Òõ, your postgraduate study will benefit from professional and supportive academic supervision. You can also take advantage of a thriving research environment. You will be able to participate in research workshops and PhD research work-in-progress seminars, where you can receive constructive feedback on your research project and benefit from the full range of expertise at your disposal.
Research supervision for your PhD
Research supervision will normally comprise two members of academic staff with a maximum of three. Depending on your research specialism one of those supervisors may be from another school, another research institution, or an external partner from government or the law profession.
You will establish your supervisor from the early stages of application and they will support you throughout your programme of study, helping you carry out your research and prepare for the next stage of your career.
Research skills and research training
The independent research programme is balanced and enhanced with a range of support from our academic community. You and your fellow postgraduate researchers will have the opportunity to attend and present at regular seminar sessions with guests from across the world of business management research. The PhD programme will give you the opportunity to build research skills as well as developing transferable skills essential for modern business environments.
As a member of the 91¶¶Òõ Doctoral College, you will benefit from regular opportunities on a training programme devised for postgraduate researchers, designed to support them at all stages of the PhD and help them achieve their career goals. Attendance at appropriate workshops within this programme is encouraged, as is contribution to the schools’ various seminar series. Academic and technical staff also provide more subject-specific training.
Postgraduate degree resources for law
You will benefit from access to international research resources. A contemporary range of electronic resources is available via the university’s Online Library, as well as to the physical book and journal collections housed within campus libraries. The library services are connected to national and international collections and students also have the option of inter-library loans.
We are based in the recently-built Elm House, a five-storey building at the university's modern campus in the bustling and progressive tourist city of 91¶¶Òõ and Hove.
Our research centres
Research is at the heart of our mission as a university law school, demonstrated by an extensive record of highly-recognised intellectual contributions, broadly associated with the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and the UN Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME). Within these, the school evidences thought leadership around action to reduce poverty, improved education, gender equality, responsible consumption, energy, and industry/infrastructure.
As a PhD candidate in law, you will have the opportunity to be a member of our Research Excellence Groups (REGs) the most relevant to our law PhD students being the , which brings together academics from law and related social science disciplines who are active in the fields of social justice and accountability.
Whatever your area of research, there are opportunities to connect across the university's wide range of research in premium departments, with regular invitations to the PhD community from related disciplinary interests fostered in our university-wide research centres (COREs) and research groups (REGs).
Our law research student body
The department of law at the 91¶¶Òõ has welcomed home and international students for PhD study in law over many years.
Some of the recent PhD thesis titles include: