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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 Inter-Religious Dialogue
  • Celtic Christianity
  • Wesleyan and Methodist Studies
  • New Testament and Biblical Studies
  • Children's and Youth Ministry
  • Worship.

Rev Dr Phil Meadows Rev Dr Jack Jackson


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 Church 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 Anglican Church in Ghana 1950–present
  • The Function of Psalmic Tricolon
  • Spiritual Warfare in a Postmodern Context
  • A Missiological Understanding of Revivalism.

Partnerships:

Cliff College is a member of the Manchester Wesleyan Research Centre.

Fees:

For 2013/14 the fee levels are as follows:

Standard EU student rate:

  • full time fee is £4,650, plus University registration fee of £800
  • part time fee is £2,325, plus University registration fee of £500

Overseas (non EU) student rate:

  • full time fee is £6,970, plus University registration fee of £800
  • part time fee is £3,490, plus University registration fee of £500

For more information about any of the Research (MPhil/PhD/Professional PhD) Programmes, please contact us by phone (01246 584202) or click here to email registrar@cliffcollege.ac.uk