The French Department at Aberdeen provides a stimulating and supportive research environment within a very dynamic and friendly Department, with a track record of excellence in research and a broad experience of postgraduate supervision.

We offer a wide range of specialisation for postgraduate research, leading to the degrees of MLitt and PhD. All full-time staff are active in research and research-led teaching.

We also welcome interdisciplinary research involving more than one Department: recent postgraduates have, for example, worked on topics combining French with Philosophy, English, Film and History of Art. There are important interdisciplinary research fora within the College of Arts and Social Sciences which are open to postgraduate students, as well as to staff.

Centre for Modern Thought is a broad cross-disciplinary initiative, whose aim is to explore the ways in which contemporary philosophy and theory can most effectively address ethical and socio-political issues in the modern world.

Centre for Early Modern Studies, established in 2001, was the first research centre for this period to be established in the United Kingdom.

Centre for the Novel, established in 2006, which is closely linked to the annual highly successful international writers festival, Word.The College of Arts and Social Sciences provides an induction course for new research students, which all our postgraduates attend. Students have full access to the resources of the University library with its holdings of one and a quarter million items. The Library has excellent holdings in all fields of French Studies. Additionally, it has built up particularly rich resources in the areas of emblem studies, contemporary French theory and French-speaking Caribbean and African literature and culture.

George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sll/research/wwcfvs/

Centre for Cizitzenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law https://www.abdn.ac.uk/cisrul/