Centre for the Study of Socialist Theory & Movements

Areas for Supervision of PhD Research

The following areas are ones in which we would particularly welcome enquiries from suitably-qualified applicants:

• Politics: All areas of Soviet and post-Soviet history and politics, including elite formation, parties, voting and elections, participation and protest, foreign policy, and in cultural forms – posters and monuments(Stephen White); in the comparative politics of radical left parties post-1989, particularly their organizational, strategic and programmatic transformation; the politics of protest in Southern Europe; the European politics of the financial crisis (Myrto Tsakatika); and in the politics of Latin America, including conflict and violence, gender and feminist politics and development (Mo Hume).
• Deborah Bryceson (Geographical and Earth Sciences) would welcome supervision of research on East or Southern Africa, or other developing countries .
• Robert Gibb (Sociology) supervises Ph.D students on contemporary French social theory, collective action and social movements.
• Willy Maley (English Literature) is available for supervision on the Spanish Civil war, on colonialism, culture and identity; and Renaissance literature.
• Andy Smith (Sociology) offers supervision of students interested in working on: critical examinations of the politics of culture – film, literature, sport – from a materialist perspective; issues around racism and anti-racism; imperialism, especially the British empire and its aftermath.
• Simon Murray (Theatre, Film and TV Studies) offers supervision of students in: theatre, contemporary performance and Marxist aesthetics and principles.
• Paul Cockshott (Computing Science) offers supervision of students in: socialist planning techniques.

Students should approach the Deputy Co-Director, Bridget Fowler with a research proposal of 1000 words and a short cv.