PhD Film and TV Studies

Our outward-looking, multi-disciplinary research activities are based on high-quality, challenging and flexible graduate programmes.

Overview

We offer postgraduate research students a wide range of options for independent study, from one-year taught degrees to three-year doctoral programmes. In undertaking such a programme, you will be joining a thriving and vibrant postgraduate community.

We welcome students from a variety of backgrounds, working on areas of specialist interest using methods from the arts, humanities and social sciences, including, where appropriate, research through practice.

Topics in which we would welcome postgraduate research include:

• Television and Film Theories
• Screen Histories, Aesthetics and Practices
• The National, Transnational and World Cinemas
• Film Festivals and Curation
• Media Technologies
• Gender, Race, Age, Disability and Class.

Thesis length: 70,000-100,000 words, including references, bibliography and appendices (other than documentary appendices).

A Doctor of Philosophy may be awarded to a student whose thesis is an original work making a significant contribution to knowledge in, or understanding of, a field of study and normally containing material worthy of publication.