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Immerse yourself in your chosen topics and create a bespoke course that suits your interests.
You'll develop your research skills, which you'll apply to your dissertation. This will provide you with knowledge and skills for careers in teaching, publishing, arts management, journalism and many other sectors, or a solid foundation for PhD study.
You'll discover topics as diverse as sexuality in the 18th century and the politics of Cold War America; Victorian culture and Native American indigenous decolonial knowledges; or the global environmental crisis and disability activism, working alongside world-leading researchers with expertise ranging from the medieval to the contemporary.
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“The lecturers at Kent are excellent. You get to know them well and, as you move through the course, they are able to guide you towards projects, ideas or career paths that they think you will like.”
Specialist research - Sally Gao from China is studying for a PhD in Electronic Engineering.
“I have been very lucky with my supervisor, Professor Yong Yan, who is a world-class expert and the first IEEE Fellow in the UK in instrumentation and measurement.
“Professor Yong Yan has helped me to become a better researcher. I am inspired by his novel ideas and constructive suggestions. Under his supervision, my confidence has grown through such milestones as my first set of experiments, writing my first research paper and attending my first conference.”
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