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Postgraduate Study

There is a wealth of expertise at Manchester University to support postgraduate study in cultural heritage, memory and identity. This is a dynamic and theoretically informed multidisciplinary area of study, which addresses the social, political and economic dynamics of heritage-making and consumption. It includes attention to questions of identity, ownership and rights; public interpretations of the past; contested histories and memories; materiality, intangible and digital heritage; museums and tourism. At Manchester you will find leading international researchers in these fields making this a particularly exciting place to study.

The University of Manchester has excellent resources to support postgraduate study. Students are encouraged to play a full and active part in academic life. Chimera events and seminars provide an opportunity to hear about the latest research, and in addition students will find relevant papers in the events run by the Centre for Museology, the Institute for Cultural Practices, the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures, and the Subject Areas of Archaeology, Social Anthropology, Art History and Visual Studies, History and Sociology.

The John Rylands University Library is one of the largest in the UK, with excellent holdings in cultural heritage and museology. Furthermore, the University's dynamic cultural heritage institutions, Manchester Museum and the Whitworth Art Gallery provide an important research resource.  

If you would like to find out more about doing doctoral research please visit the PhD page. For more information on related postgraduate taught programmes please visit the MA pages.