Hello, I'm currently studying a Masters Degree in Politics. I have discovered a PhD studentship in what can be academically described as a mixture of English Literature and Film Studies. The writer under study is related to the nation that I specialise in and further my degree also covers the cultural aspects of that nation as expressed through literature and film.

My question is, is it at all common for a person with a social science Masters to advance to a humanities PhD?

BTW, my undergraduate joint-honours was Politics and Drama with was deemed to be a BA.