Prof Simon Glendinning

Dr Abby Innes

Dr Yaprak Gursoy

Prof Chris Anderson

This course is compulsory on the MPhil/PhD in European Studies. This course is not available as an outside option to students on other programmes.

There are two components to this course. In the first component (workshops), there will be presentations and detailed discussions of PhD-related research, outlines and progression. Students will present and discuss their thesis chapters and related doctoral research, with an emphasis on research design and methodology. A detailed syllabus is fixed at the start of each term.

In the second component (seminars), students will attend and participate in the Europe@LSE seminar series, which aims to provide a forum for research on Europe, both on the European Union and beyond its borders, across all disciplines. Papers are given by external speakers, staff, and research students.

Together, these components provide PhD students with a structured space to develop and refine their doctoral research and to gain broader exposure to cutting-edge scholarship on Europe in an interdisciplinary forum.

10 hours of seminars (hybrid) and 15 hours of workshops (hybrid) in the Autumn Term.
10 hours of seminars (hybrid) and 15 hours of workshops (hybrid) in the Winter Term.

This course has a reading week in Week 6 of Autumn and Winter Term.

There is no examination for this course. Regular attendance and active participation is required. All students are required: to present at least one substantial chapter/paper draft; to act as a discussant on another paper; and to read papers in advance of the seminar in which they are discussed.