Humanities subject areas

This PhD programme pathway provides advanced training to develop leading research in Accounting, Market-based Accounting Research (MBAR) and Finance.

Architecture studies at Manchester take place at the Manchester School of Architecture (MSA), one of the top architecture schools in the UK.

Study modern and contemporary art, architectural history, museum studies, and the intersections of art and science.

Explore a suite of programmes on museology, heritage, and arts management at the Institute for Cultural Practices (ICP).

Explore the ancient world, from the Near East and Egypt to the Hellenistic and Roman Empires, with Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology, and Egyptology (CAHAE).

Criminology is the study of crime – its measurement and definition, causes and effects, and social implications.

Theatre studies, performance, applied theatre, and screen studies delivered through lectures, seminars, tutorials, and group practical projects.

Economics is the study of the way in which incentives affect behaviour, and economists analyse how choices are made and their influence on society as a whole.

Addressing social justice and enabling educational change through scholarly activities and collaborative partnerships with professionals.

Course units range from Anglo-Saxon literature to 21st-century writing and film and cover medieval romance to the postcolonial and postmodern.

Research and teaching by Manchester geographers set national and international research agendas in human and physical geography.

Development courses promote social justice, economic development, and greater equality within countries, particularly for marginalised groups.

Modern British and European cultural history, economic and social history from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, and the study of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.

Leading global institute for the study of humanitarianism and conflict response, global health, international disaster management, and peacebuilding.

The division is one of the largest research groups for innovation management and policy globally.

Explore opportunities to learn about today’s legal issues in one of the most diverse cities in the UK, and gain the skills to pursue a law-related profession.

Study topics as diverse as dialects, Old English, children's language, and the speech of men and women.

Research in the Division ranges from studies to understand consumer motivations and influences to understanding markets, operational, informational and digital systems.

Our Modern Languages provision is amongst the broadest and most diverse in the UK, featuring more than 100 different subject combinations.

Our research and teaching covers composition (instrumental and vocal), electroacoustic composition and computer music, ethnomusicology, musicology, and performance.

The division brings together internationally-recognised experts in work and employment, organisational psychology, international business, health policy and organisations in society.

Our research and teaching areas include analytic philosophy, with emphasis on metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, epistemology, the history of philosophy, and the philosophy of mind.

Planning, Property and Environmental Management covers spatial analysis, politics and planning, governance, sustainable urbanism, and urban research.

Politics at Manchester is one of the strongest groupings in the UK with a distinguished history as a centre of research, training, and education at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Study of the beliefs, texts, practices, histories, and cultures of the great religious traditions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism.

The study of social and cultural diversity, including conflict and its aftermath, economic change, poverty, inequality, globalisation, sex, gender, identities, and the material world.

Developing statistical methods for longitudinal and multilevel data, longitudinal survey data, social networks, statistical disclosure and confidentiality, and small area estimation.

The study of social life and social change, adopting the perspective that behaviour can only be understood by studying people's social context and their webs of connection.

Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies offers a comprehensive portfolio of taught master's courses in translation studies and intercultural communication.