Doctoral Programme in Humanities
With an international and multilingual team of supervisors, the Doctoral Programme in Humanities fosters a vibrant research culture and a lively academic community. It supports you in developing the self-reflexivity, critical thinking and theoretical complexity that define the field of Humanities. The Programme structure enables you to explore the historical, social and cultural systems of meaning represented in literature, the arts and the media that are shaped through ideological, ethical and aesthetical practices and reflected in historical processes, linguistic phenomena and cognitive structures.
Investigating –Thinking –Writing
Our Humanities programme covers a wide range of disciplines, including English, German, Luxembourgish, Romance Studies, History, Linguistics, Music and Philosophy. As a Doctoral candidate, you work with a supervisory committee that guides and supports you in your research project.
The programme combines disciplinary research colloquia, interdisciplinary seminars and transferable skills courses. In the research colloquia you discuss your own work, you are trained on how to present your research effectively and on how to give and receive feedback from peers and senior academics. In our interdisciplinary seminars, you are encouraged to think creatively and to engage productively with researchers from other disciplines. Finally, our transferable skills courses support you in developing excellent writing, presentation and teaching skills, in enhancing your knowledge of research ethics, and in engaging in outreach activities.
Striking a unique balance between autonomous research and supervisory and peer support, our programme empowers you to make an original contribution to scholarship in the Humanities.
Prerequisites
Language: Candidates applying to any programme at the Doctoral School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Luxembourg will be required to demonstrate the following Language skills:
• English language skills: as a minimum B2 level of the CEFR.
• Language used for thesis: as a minimum C1 level of the CEFR.
Prerequisite: A Master’s degree in Humanities, Social sciences, Educational sciences, Natural sciences or equivalent (level 7).
Admissions
We recommend you to contact potential thesis supervisors by email to discuss your areas of general research interest and specific ideas for a thesis topic in Humanities. You will need to send a description of the research project and your CV as well as a motivation letter. Your research project should be as comprehensive as possible.
