Our full-time and part-time PhD programme involves substantial original research leading to the production of a thesis of up to 80,000 words that constitutes a significant contribution to scholarship. Assessment is based on the thesis and an oral examination, called a “viva.”
Areas available for research include:
- Theology (doctrine, historical, and contemporary)
- Biblical Studies (Old Testament/Hebrew Bible; New Testament; Ancient Near Eastern studies; Second Temple Judaism)
- Church History
- Wesley Studies
- Missiology
- Social Justice
- Religion and Philosophy
- Ecotheology
- Christianity and Islam
All of our faculty members are available for inquiries about PhD research. For research profiles and contact details, please visit our faculty pages.
NTC PhD students can meet and discuss topics with a range of major international scholars who visit both NTC and the University of Manchester to deliver seminars, public lectures like the Didsbury Lectures at NTC, the Manson Memorial Lecture in New Testament and the Samuel Ferguson Lecture in Theology, both at the University of Manchester. This is usually an option for on campus PhD students.
There are opportunities to organise, participate in, and present papers at conferences led by PhD students and joint events, such as the Manchester-Durham-Sheffield PhD student conference in Biblical Studies.