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

• MA in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies

 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

• MA Late Antique & Byzantium Studies

Programme leader: Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos

• Grad Dip/MA/Research 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

• MA in the History of Art: Byzantium and its Rivals Art, Display and Cultural Identity in the Christian and Islamic Mediterranean

Supervisor: Dr Anthony Eastmond

University of London, Royal Holloway:  Hellenic centre

• Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (MA)
• History: Hellenic Studies (MA)

Course director: Dr Charalambos Dendrinos

Partner institutions: King’s College London, University College London

Studentships, Bursaries and Prizes in Byzantine and Hellenic Studies (2013):

• 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

• Archaeology MA
• Art History MA
• Medieval Studies MA

Programme director: Dr David Matthews

Newcastle University: School of History, Classics and Archaeology

• Roman and Byzantine Archaeology MA

Degree programme director: Dr Mark Jackson

Oxford University: Faculty of History & The Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research

• Late Antique and Byzantine Studies MSt and MPhil/ M.Litt. and DPhil

 For further information on the research interests of PhD supervising staff, use the link here.

 Studentships:

• OCBR Leventis Graduate Award
• OCBR Leventis Graduate Scholarship

Sussex University: School of History, Art History and Philosophy

• Art History MA/PhD

Overseas

Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey: Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities

• Archaeology and History of Art MA
• Archaeology /History of Art PhD

For further information on the research interests of PhD supervising staff, use the link here.

Ottawa University, Canada: Department of Classics and Religious Studies

• MA in Classical Studies specialisation Late Antiquity

Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands: School of Humanities: Faculty of Arts

• MA in History specialisation Roma Aeterna