Culture and Creative Industries PhD

The Centre for Culture & Creative Industries is host to a vibrant research community concerned with current debates affecting: Power in/of the creative and cultural sectors; Cultural geographies, heritage and the urban organization of culture; In/equalities and labour conditions in the cultural industries; Mediated identity, consumption and intimacy; Gender, ethnicity and sexuality. The Centre welcomes applications for research that is underpinned by empirical and/or theoretical methodologies. We have a strong commitment to the development of interdisciplinary approaches that take account of cultural and creative industries in historical, political and social contexts.

Candidates are required to demonstrate the following: a full 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. A PhD thesis should similarly demonstrate evidence of systematic study and in addition make a new contribution to the subject, shown either by the discovery of new facts or analyses or by the exercise of independent critical judgement.