Real Estate and Planning University of Reading

General requirements

• Top grades in your Masters degree (minimum requirement is Merit or equivalent, but we prefer Distinction).
• Top grade in your Masters Dissertation (or equivalent research-based piece of work) because this may show your research attitude and skills.
• A well-developed research proposal. Guidance on writing the research proposal can be found here.

• A reasonable intended timeline reflecting issues you may encounter in the study as presented above (for example, if you have to collect primary data, the time spent on data collection will be much longer than the one you would spend if you intend to use secondary data sources).

• PhD Programme Director assesses interest in proposal among appropriate academic staff
• If appropriate, PhD Programme Director contacts candidate to direct them towards potential supervisors
• Candidate submits formal application.