Research (MPhil/PhD) Programmes
MPhil and PhD
Cliff College has a successful and growing research degree programme, validated by the University of Manchester, with students working at both MPhil and PhD levels, part-time and full-time, in the UK and overseas. We are currently encouraging applications particularly in the following areas of study, which represent the specialisms and broad research interests of our supervisors:
- Mission, Evangelism and Church Leadership
- Missionary Ecclesiology, Emerging Church, and Postmodern Culture
- Theology of Religions and Interreligious Dialogue
- Celtic Christianity
- Wesleyan and Methodist Studies
- New Testament and Biblical Studies
- Children's and Youth Ministry
- Worship
Current research projects include:
- Contextual Mission in Sierra Leone
- CS Lewis as Postmodern Evangelist
- The Doctrine of Christian Perfection as a Vision for Evangelism
- Early Methodist Evangelism in a Pluralistic Culture
- Evangelism and Ecumenism in Nigeria
- Gospel, Culture and Mission in 21st century Ireland
- John Wesley’s Class Meetings
- Leadership Development in the Church of God Mission, Nigeria
- Missio Dei and the Means of Grace
- Power Evangelism and the Methodist Church Zimbabwe
- Psalm 49 as a Possible Climax and Conclusion to the First Collection of Korahite Psalms (42-49)
- The Role of Camp Meetings in Primitive Methodism
- The Role of the Spiritual Senses in Contemporary Mission
- Theology from Kibera: Theological Attention to Liberative Voices among the Hoi Polloi of a Kibera Slum in Nairobi City, Kenya
Recently completed research degrees include:
- The Inculturation of Celtic Art Forms in Ireland's Non-Christian Religions
- Church of England Chuirch Plants 1987-2000
- Cell Church in a Methodist Circuit
- Reading the Embedded Stories as Metaduegetic Narratives in Genesis 12-50
- Columbanus and Celtic Mission
- Mission from a Colonial to a Postcolonial Era: The Case of the Angliocan Church in Ghana 1950-present
- The Function of Psamic Tricolon
- Spiritual Warefare in a Postmodern Context
- A Missiological Understanding of Revivalism
Partnerships:
Cliff College is a member of the Manchester Wesleyan Research Centre.
Fees:
For 2011/12 the fee levels are as follows:
Standard EU student rate
:full-time £4,220 plus University registration fee of £350;
:part-time £2,110 plus University registration fee of £175;
Overseas (non EU) student rate
:full-time £6,330 plus University registration fee of £450;
:part-time £3,165 plus University registration fee of £225.
For more information about any of the Research (MPhil/PhD/Professional PhD) Programmes please contact our Postgraduate Administrator by phone or email.
