About this course
We host one of the largest economic and social history research groupings in the UK.economic development financial history energy policy globalisation slavery urban history consumption material culture museums and collecting leisure religious belief popular culture medicine and disease gender sexuality the family culture and society in early modern Britain slavery in the Atlantic world since 1700 the material culture of gender in 18th-century Britain urban society and civil society in historical context cinema and society in modern Britain gender, crime and deviancy: Britain 1860–1960; energy policy in Britain since 1920 the economic history of China in the 20th century the history of health and medicine in Britain since 1750
Staff research interests are wide-ranging, including the study of:
The diversity of our research means we can support students’ economic and social history study in a vast range of time periods and geographical regions and from the early modern period to the present day.
Particular areas of expertise available for research are:
The University’s economic and social historians host three research groups: material and visual cultures of the past; enlightenment and popular culture; and economic and social history.
Study Options
This course is available in 2 study options:
Part-time
Duration: 6 Years
Qualification: PhD
Location: Edinburgh
Full-time Shown above
Duration: 3 Years
Qualification: PhD
Location: Edinburgh
Career Prospects
Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:
2435 Professional/Chartered company secretaries
3412 Authors, writers and translators
2472 Archivists, conservators and curators
4112 Local government administrative occupations
4214 Company secretaries and administrators
4135 Library clerks and assistants
Course Details
- Qualification
- Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
- Study Mode
- Full-time
- Duration
- 3 Years
- Start Date
- 2025
- Academic Year
- 2025
- Campus / Location
- Edinburgh
- Scheme
- Undergraduate
- Subjects
- History