PhD/MPhil Culture and Creative Industries

Overview

As a researcher for the Cultural and the Creative Industries PhD/MPhil programme, you will join a diverse, highly specialised international research community. Encompassing sociology, geography, economic development, cultural studies and policy development

Areas of expertise include:

Challenges to Identity, Place, and Practices
Heritage and the urban organization of culture
In/equalities and labour conditions in the cultural industries
Mediated identity, consumption and intimacy
Lack of diversity in the creative economy, and its representations
Creative Economy policy for cities, and (world) regions

We have close links with national and international agencies including the UN. This will give you a unique insight into how our research translates into solid outcomes.

You may also have the opportunity to be involved with projects being carried out by scholars working with these organisations.

The Programme

The PhD at City is designed to assist you with your research project and give you transferable skills for the years after you finish. The PhD programme is structured as follows:

Year 1 - Student’s work with their supervisors to develop the literature review in their specific area. They will outline their methodology and plan for the thesis. They participate in peer seminars and research events in the department.

Year 2 - In order to progress from MPhil to PhD students present an upgrade paper. They will outline their review of the literature, their methodology and gives an indication of the overall shape of the thesis.

Year 3 - The formal requirements in third year are focused around the writing up and submission of the thesis.

Year 4 - The fourth year of a PhD is only used as a writing up year.

Candidates are required to demonstrate the following:

understanding of previous research literature and current academic and professional thinking
the ability to undertake sustained, high level research and master the theoretical (and where appropriate, practical) aspects of the subject areas relevant to the research field
the ability to communicate the subject matter of the research field, and the conclusions of the particular research project, in the accepted academic form of a research thesis.