Research Degrees

The Queen’s Graduate and Research Centre can offer or arrange supervision for students wishing to study for research degrees in the University of Birmingham. Most of the staff at the Foundation are recognised by the University as honorary lecturers and as qualified to supervise higher degrees. They have a wide range of expertise and considerable experience in supervision. They bring not only their specialist knowledge but also their commitment to research that serves the mission of God in the world. For more details of staff and their areas of expertise click on Foundation Staff [Teaching Staff].

The Centre supports research in a range of areas:

• Black and Asian theology – in which Queen’s is a national and international leader
• Biblical studies
• Practical Theology
• Doctrinal and Philosophical theology
• Feminist Theology

What characterizes the Centre, as a whole, is a distinctive approach. We hold, on the one hand, that the purpose of theological research is, ultimately, missiological; resourcing, critiquing, and stimulating the Church in its mission. On the other hand, our conviction is that our missiological goal is best achieved by nurturing intellectual curiosity and rigour over the range of theological disciplines.

The Centre, in association with the University of Birmingham, offers three higher degrees.

• MPhil
• PhD
• ThD in Applied Theology

All of these degrees can be taken full-time or part-time.

All research students of the Centre are invited to participate in day-long, termly research seminars; this is an integral aspect of the experience of research and enables students to gain from each other and to benefit from the wider Foundation community.

Participants in the activities of the Research Centre can benefit from the many dimensions of the life of the Foundation and it has been found that this greatly enhances the experience of coming to study with the Centre. At Queen’s, the academic, the spiritual and the social flow together in a very enriching way. Moreover, all those who come to study for protracted periods at the Centre benefit from enjoying access to the resources of the University of Birmingham, which is only ten minutes’ walk away from Queen’s.