10 Reasons to Choose PHIR
1. Amongst the highest possible TEACHING QUALITY. The Department of Politics, History and International Relations received a near perfect 23/24 for Teaching Quality from British Government’s Quality Assurance Agency. We are serious about teaching innovation and are currently exploring a range of e-learning opportunities to enhance student engagement, and assessment and feedback to students (Audience Response System, Lecture Capturing, Virtual Classroom; Video Presentations and Feedback, History Timeline).
2. The highest possible RESEARCH QUALITY. The Department received a perfect 5/5 Research Rating from the most recent Research Assessment Exercise.
3. STUDENT SATISFACTION SURVEY – Confirmed the excellent quality of the Department’s teaching and learning experience. It was rated 4.3/5 for ‘overall satisfaction with the quality of the course.’
4. HISTORY & PEDIGREE: The Department of Politics, History and International Relations was established as a department in 1973 and as such is one of the earliest departments to teach specialised courses on the European Union and its member states.
5. CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE: The Department of Politics, History and International Relations at Loughborough university is a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. This means we have been recognised and appointed by the European Commission to heighten awareness of the European integration process.
6. INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION OF THE CURRICULUM AND LANGUAGE OPTIONS: The Department has student exchange links with partner institutions across Europe, making it possible for many of our students to study abroad for part of their degree programme. Students also have the unique opportunity to take credited language options in German, French or Spanish on our programmes.
7. KNOWLEDGE: our staff includes some of the leading experts in their specialisation, with a particular concentration of knowledge regarding the Common Foreign & Security Policy (CFSP) of the European Union; EU-US Transatlantic Relations; EU-Asia relations; political theory and thought, including anarchism; the society and politics of the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Austria, Ireland, Italy and Russia; international political economy; security studies; intelligence studies; sexual politics; human rights. Areas of expertise in History include modern Germany and Austria, (including Nazism and the Holocaust and its legacies); the treatment of Slav minorities; Modern Britain (especially permissiveness and popular culture), national identity, gender, sexuality, historiography and the experience of modernity; and women’s history, Islam, autobiography, the culture of travel, education, and/or princely states in modern South Asia.
8. REPUTATION: our staff have written textbooks in various fields of Politics, History and International Relations, which are used by undergraduate and postgraduate students in the UK and abroad.
9. CONTACTS: The Department has a variety of distinguished visitors who come to the Loughborough campus to meet our current students.
10. Follow in some very SUCCESSFUL FOOTSTEPS. If you graduate from the Dept. of Politics, History and International Relations at Loughborough University, you will be coming from the same department as Paula Radcliffe MBE (Women’s Marathon world record holder 2003), Tanni Grey-Thompson OBE (the most successful world Paralympic athlete of all time) and James Gibson (Commonwealth and world record-holding swimmer).