Research degree applications
All potential research students must first submit an online enquiry form with details of their proposal.
Make an enquiry
Please note: you should receive a response from the Academic School within ten working days. For general enquiries please contact research@stmarys.ac.uk.
Following your initial discussion, if we can take your application forward one of the following options will be offered with appropriate forms provided.
Pre-registration application
This is a preparatory stage to develop your proposal for application to full registration (if required).
Full registration application
If the academic staff consider that your proposal is sufficiently developed they may advise application to full registration.
Once approved by St Mary's - and then by Liverpool Hope University (as the awarding institution) - your research can begin at the next scheduled entry point in the academic calendar.
Further information
More information about the application process can be found in the following documents:
Students registered after 10th August 2014
For students registering after 10th August 2014, St Mary's University Programmes will lead to awards of the Liverpool Hope University. Liverpool Hope University is an award-granting body by Royal Charter and has in place arrangements with St Mary's University to assure the quality of all programmes leading to its awards.
All students registered for awards of Liverpool Hope University are bound by appropriate general regulations of the University and are governed by the University’s appeals procedures prescribed therein.
Students registered before 10th August 2014
For students who registered before 10th August 2014, St Mary's University programmes will lead to awards of the University of Surrey. The University of Surrey is an award-granting body by Royal Charter and has in place arrangements with St Mary's University to assure the quality of all programmes leading to its awards.
All students registered for awards of the University of Surrey are bound by appropriate general regulations of the University and are governed by the University’s appeals procedures prescribed therein.