PhDs in Journalism and Mass Communications

PhD in Doctoral Programme in Digital Media

This is a joint program between the University of Porto and The New University of Lisbon. with the support of the University of Texas at Austin, aiming at specialized training in digital media.

PhD in Communication and Media Sciences

University of Geneva

With the supervision of a director, the doctoral candidate carries out a personal research, which requires several years of continuous intellectual effort. Apart from a basis of solid knowledge, the doctoral thesis demands the candidate's skill to lead a long-term project, a sound interest in the chosen field of research and a certain originality of thought. In general, the doctoral thesis gives way to publications of several articles in specialized reviews, or even of a book.

PhD in Communication, Journalism and Performance Design

Roskilde University

The PhD programme invites projects that may focus on theory, analysis or practice, on media types, media institutions, media technologies, forms of communication, forms of expression and genres forms of organization, as well as specific works or products linked to the research fields of Communication, Journalism and Performance Design.

PhD in Social Communication

Pompeu Fabra University

The doctorate in Social Communication offers students the chance to write and present a doctoral thesis consisting of original research work on one of the lines of research of the doctorate.

PhD in Children and the Media

Cardiff University

This programme offers knowledge and expertise for academic research and teaching or for a career in the media and communications industries.

PhD in Journalism

University of Kent, Medway Campus

Research programmes are best suited to students who have a clear and original idea of a topic that they would like to investigate in detail. There are two types of programme. The MA by Research entails producing a 40,000 word thesis; the MPhil and PhD programmes demand a high level of research and analysis resulting in dissertations of c50,000 words (MPhil) or 80,000 words (PhD).

PhD in Audience and Fan Studies

Cardiff University

This programme offers knowledge and expertise for academic research and teaching or for a career in the media and communications industries.

PhD in Film Studies & Media Studies

Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus

We offer research degrees in a range of topics linked to staff expertise in the fields of communication, film, and media studies. Our staff are recognized as experts in their fields, and have produced a number of influential books, journal articles, edited collections and creative works in film and video.

PhD in Culture, Media & Creative Industries Research

Kings College London

CMCI carries out world-leading research across the field of culture, media and the analysis of particular creative industries.Specialisms include cultural work, creative cities, visual cultures, popular culture, cultural and creative industries policy, cultural management, entrepreneurship and cultural production, cultural regeneration,cultural history, culture and identity, and inter-sectionally and culture. Our approach is international in perspective and is characterised by a productive engagement of the theoretical and empirical. We work in an inter-disciplinary mode: although we are based in the School of Arts & Humanities, much of our research has roots in the social sciences

PhD in Mediatized Conflict Group

Cardiff University

This programme offers knowledge and expertise for academic research and teaching or for a career in the media and communications industries.

PhD in Risk, Science, Health and Media Group

Cardiff University

This programme offers knowledge and expertise for academic research and teaching or for a career in the media and communications industries.

PhD in Race, Representation and Cultural Politics Group

Cardiff University

This programme offers knowledge and expertise for academic research and teaching or for a career in the media and communications industries.