Study

Based at the University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and situated within its College of Social Sciences and International Studies, the Centre is well placed to draw on expert faculty from both the IAIS and the Department of Politics.

Academic staff in the The European Centre for Palestine Studies are actively involved in postgraduate teaching and offer Masters programmes and modules informed by the latest research. See our taught postgraduate programmes for our course listings.

Our MPhil/PhD Palestine Studies offers candidates a multi-disciplinary course of study.

Our other MPhil/PhD programmes provide an opportunity for you to study with leading specialists in the field. 

Studentships:

Two PhD studentships in Palestine studies, funded by UAE Foreign Minister, HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed started in September.

Our modules include: 

• Conflict and Peacemaking Palestine/Israel
• Question of Palestine-Past and Present
• Israeli Peace Movements and Palestinian Resistance
• Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Palestine/Israel
• The Historiography of the "Arab-Israeli Conflict"

Monthly Sessions on Palestine

Monthly Sessions on Palestine, which provide opportunities for graduate students to come together to discuss their own research and action in such areas as surveillance in Palestine and the UK; representations of Palestinians in late Ottoman/Mandate Palestine; and uses of psychological discourse in post-Oslo Palestine (coordinated by 2017-2018 Research Fellow, Rachael Stryker)