Key information
- Duration: Full-time, 36 months
- Start dates & application deadlines:
- Starting January 2027 - Apply before Oct 2026
Overview
We have particular strengths in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind and the intersections between these.
The research in Philosophy at Cardiff University covers normative ethics, metaethics, and applied ethics. Many of our staff have overlapping expertise in normative theory, practical reason, moral psychology and social-political philosophy, with our work in applied ethics including research on health, biobanking, nutrigenomics and sport.
Programme aims
- The research programme aims to offer knowledge and expertise to take you on to a role in Higher Education, or employment requiring high-level skills in research or advanced subject knowledge.
- This PhD programme recruits a diverse range of Home/EU and International students who want to engage in a research environment that is characterised by the combination of expertise across both analytic and continental approaches to philosophy.
Career Prospects
In recent years, students gaining PhDs in Philosophy from Cardiff have gone on to lecturing positions at Soka University, Japan and Nanyang Technological University Singapore, while others have secured posts outside Higher Education in the teaching profession.
Programme Structure
Areas of research include:
- Normative ethics (esp. Kantian ethics, virtue ethics, anti-theory)
- Metaethics (including practical reason)
- Moral psychology
- Applied ethics (including medical ethics, ethics of sport, risk)
- Philosophy of normativity (e.g. practical and epistemic normativity and rationality)
- Political philosophy
Admission requirements
Academic requirements
GPA: Upper Second Class
English requirements
- TOEFL iBT: 109
- PTE Academic: 80
- IELTS: 7.5
Other requirements
- Suitable for graduates in Philosophy and closely related subjects.
- A First or upper Second class UK Honours undergraduate degree, or equivalent, is required and, preferably, a good postgraduate Master's degree. Usually, at least one of these degrees should be in or involve Philosophy.
Fees and funding
Tuition Fees
- International: 50,071 AUD / year (≈ 26,700 GBP / year)
- Domestic: 9,388 AUD / year (≈ 5,006 GBP / year)
- Part-time tuition fees: £2,503
Living costs
Cardiff, United Kingdom: 1,178-1,999 AUD / month
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