Ochanomizu University
Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies

Bunkyo City, Japan

DEGREE TYPE

PhD

DURATION

LANGUAGES

English

PACE

APPLICATION DEADLINE

EARLIEST START DATE

Apr 2025

STUDY FORMAT

On-Campus

Key Summary

About : The Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies offers a comprehensive curriculum that explores gender from various academic perspectives. Students will engage in critical thinking around gender issues, understand societal structures, and contribute original research in their chosen field of study. This program is designed to foster interdisciplinary approaches to gender analysis and equip students with the tools needed for advanced academic inquiry.

Career Outcomes : Graduates can pursue a range of careers such as researchers, academics, and policy analysts. Other opportunities include roles in non-profit organizations, government agencies, and advocacy groups focused on gender equity. The program prepares students to contribute to discussions on gender-related social change and impacts in diverse professional environments.

This major was established in April 2005 to form a hub for gender research education. It was the first major in a Doctoral Program offered in Japan that established and emphasized gender research from an interdisciplinary perspective. The instructors provide classroom content that analyzes representative modern social issues based on each academic discipline. The doctoral dissertations produced by past graduates have been praised for presenting new outlooks about existing academic disciplines from a gender perspective, and have been awarded various prizes including the Japan Association of Gender and Law Prize, the Women’s History Prize, the Human Geographical Society of Japan’s Excellent Book/Paper Award, the Japan Association of Economic Geographers’ Economic Geography Prize, the Kikue Yamakawa Prize, the Population Association of Japan’s Best Paper Award, and others.

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