Postgraduate Courses

For UK and EU students, the main funding body for postgraduate study in the arts and humanities is the AHRC. For Greek/Cypriot Students, see also the A. G. Leventis Foundation, Greek Archaeological Committee UK, Onassis Foundation, Foundation for Education, European Culture and also specific funding opportunities available in Schools.
Birmingham University: Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies
- Antiquity MA: Byzantine Studies pathway
- Byzantine Studies PhD/MA by Research (on-campus or distance learning)
Co-ordinators: Professor Leslie Brubaker, Dr Ruth Macrides, Dr Archie Dunn
For further information on the research interests of PhD supervising staff, use the link here.
Cambridge University: Faculty of History
- MPhil in Medieval History: The Byzantine Empire: Continuity and Crisis from Justinian I to Basil II (c. 500-1000)
Programme leader: Dr Peter Sarris
Cardiff University: Centre for Late Antique Religion and Culture
Co-ordinators: Dr Shaun Tougher, Prof Josef Lössl
Edinburgh University: School of History, Classics and Archaeology
- M.Litt./Graduate Diploma in Mediaeval History (Byzantine options available)
- MSc in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies
- Taught MSc in Archaeology
Programme director: Professor Jim Crow
University of London, King’s College London: Centre for Hellenic Studies
Programme leader: Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos
- MPhil/PhD
For further information on the research interests of PhD supervising staff, use the link here.
Scholarship: Robert Browning Memorial Fund Graduate Scholarship
University of London, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Supervisor: Dr Anthony Eastmond
University of London, Royal Holloway: Hellenic Institute
Course director: Dr Charalambos Dendrinos
Partner institutions: King’s College London, University College London
Studentships, Bursaries and Prizes in Byzantine and Hellenic Studies:
- His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomaios I Postgraduate Studentship in Byzantine Studies
- The Nikolaos Oikonomides Postgraduate Studentship in Byzantine Studies
- The George of Cyprus Bursaries
- The Julian Chrysostomides Bursaries in Hellenic and Byzantine Studies
- The Pat Macklin Memorial Bursaries in Hellenic and Byzantine Studies
- The John Penrose Barron Prize in Hellenic Studies
- The Joan Mervyn Hussey Prize in Byzantine Studies
Manchester University: School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Programme director: Dr David Matthews
Newcastle University: School of History, Classics and Archaeology
Degree programme director: Dr Mark Jackson
Oxford University: Faculty of History & The Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research
For further information on the research interests of PhD supervising staff, use the link here.
Sussex University: School of History, Art History and Philosophy
Overseas
Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey: Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities
For further information on the research interests of PhD supervising staff, use the link here.
Ottawa University, Canada: Department of Classics and Religious Studies
Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands: School of Humanities: Faculty of Arts
- MA in History specialisation Roma Aeterna