36 monthsProgramme duration
23,000 GBPTuition Fee/year
Feb, OctStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
History
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
Develop your own original research in an environment with a strong transnational and transcultural perspective. These perspectives produce a stimulating and vibrant community with debate encouraged between staff and students.
Our staff are experienced supervisors who will guide and support you both academically and personally.
Staff expertise
We have particular strengths in:
The Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies is home to two research centres where much of the Critical Theory and Cultural Studies research activity takes place. You will be encouraged to get involved and contribute.
Our staff are experienced supervisors who will guide and support you both academically and personally.
Staff expertise
We have particular strengths in:
- modern theory
- political philosophy and politics
- aesthetics
- feminist, queer and gender studies
- cultural, literary, media and visual studies
- psychoanalysis
- art history
- postcolonial, sensory, science and technology studies
- memory studies
The Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies is home to two research centres where much of the Critical Theory and Cultural Studies research activity takes place. You will be encouraged to get involved and contribute.
- Centre for Research in Critical Theory
- Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies
- The Limits of Command and Control - David Young
- Producing users online: Facebook, habit, power - Niall Docherty
- Re/thinking chickens: the discourse around chicken farming in British newspapers and campaigners’ magazines, 1982–2016 - Elena Lazutkaite
- Fanning the flames: political discourse analysis of anti-austerity social movement intervention in the UK general elections of 2015 and 2017 - Abigail Rhodes
- Get rid of yourself: toward an aesthetics of anonymity - David Eckersley
- Machine Learning Systems as Integrative Objects: Towards a Generic Epistemology of Predictive Systems - Magdalena Krysztoforska
- Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies
- 90% of our research environment was assessed as "world leading" in the recent Research Excellence Framework 2021 evaluation
Programme overview
Main Subject
History
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
Develop your own original research in an environment with a strong transnational and transcultural perspective. These perspectives produce a stimulating and vibrant community with debate encouraged between staff and students.
Our staff are experienced supervisors who will guide and support you both academically and personally.
Staff expertise
We have particular strengths in:
The Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies is home to two research centres where much of the Critical Theory and Cultural Studies research activity takes place. You will be encouraged to get involved and contribute.
Our staff are experienced supervisors who will guide and support you both academically and personally.
Staff expertise
We have particular strengths in:
- modern theory
- political philosophy and politics
- aesthetics
- feminist, queer and gender studies
- cultural, literary, media and visual studies
- psychoanalysis
- art history
- postcolonial, sensory, science and technology studies
- memory studies
The Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies is home to two research centres where much of the Critical Theory and Cultural Studies research activity takes place. You will be encouraged to get involved and contribute.
- Centre for Research in Critical Theory
- Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies
- The Limits of Command and Control - David Young
- Producing users online: Facebook, habit, power - Niall Docherty
- Re/thinking chickens: the discourse around chicken farming in British newspapers and campaigners’ magazines, 1982–2016 - Elena Lazutkaite
- Fanning the flames: political discourse analysis of anti-austerity social movement intervention in the UK general elections of 2015 and 2017 - Abigail Rhodes
- Get rid of yourself: toward an aesthetics of anonymity - David Eckersley
- Machine Learning Systems as Integrative Objects: Towards a Generic Epistemology of Predictive Systems - Magdalena Krysztoforska
- Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies
- 90% of our research environment was assessed as "world leading" in the recent Research Excellence Framework 2021 evaluation
Admission Requirements
7+
3+
76+
100+
2:1 (or international equivalent) in an arts, humanities or social science subject; and a masters degree in a relevant subject.
3 Years
Feb
Oct
Tuition fees
Domestic
5,350 GBP
International
23,000 GBP
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