PhDs in Film and Theatre Studies

PhD in Engineering Doctorate/ Professional Doctorate in Digital Media

The Engineering Doctorate (EngD) at the Centre for Digital Entertainment (CDE) is a collaboration between the University of Bath and Bournemouth University. It offers the opportunity to conduct research in an industrial context. Industrial collaborators come from the fields of computer games, VFX, image processing, graphics and animation. The program lasts 4 years, of which 3 will be spent in a company engaged on research projects, one on Masters level courses.

PhD in Drama PhD

The University of Manchester

You will have a supervisor with a specialism related to your field of research. The practice-based dissertation also gives you the opportunity to submit practice as part of your final thesis submission. The staff/student seminar series, Research Encounters, provides a weekly forum of debate and the presentation of short papers on a wide range of topics, and acts as a focal point in the postgraduate research culture.

PhD in Applied Theatre Professional Doctorate

The University of Manchester

Students will receive individual supervision from an academic supervisor with a specialism related to their field of research as well as opportunities to develop reflective enquiry into practice via group-based learning exercises with other practitioners at two long residential weekends per year. All teaching and supervision will be led by applied theatre staff. This approach to teaching and learning supports interdisciplinary research and high levels of engagement and interaction between academic knowledge, policy imperatives and practical applications. It is envisaged that this programme will be most appealing as part-time study. However, a full-time option is included as there may be applicants with special circumstances that would make full-time study a viable option.

PhD in Research Degrees in Drama

Queen Mary, University of London

Drama’s vibrant community of graduate scholars undertakes innovative performance research addressing a diversity of interests. We welcome graduate students and visiting research fellows who will contribute research in any of our areas of specialism (see below). Research students are registered for University of London degrees (MPhil/PhD) and work under the supervision of members of academic staff. Drama offers PhD studentships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and a limited number of College awards may also be available.

PhD in PhD in Film Studies

Queen Mary, University of London

Queen Mary has an active and flourishing interest in graduate work in Film Studies, leading to the degrees of MA, MPhil and PhD. The Department of Film Studies is one of the leading centres for graduate film study in London and benefits also from its close collaborative links with staff and graduate students at several other institutions of the University of London, such as the SOAS, Goldsmiths College, Birkbeck College, Royal Holloway, UCL and KCL.

PhD in Film Studies

University of Kent, Canterbury Campus

Postgraduate students are supervised via a research team through regular meetings. Research supervision draws on wide staff interests in North American, European, and Latin American cinemas, offering opportunities to study projects based in aesthetic, conceptual and historical perspectives on film and digital media, as well as practice by research. For further details, see staff research interests.

PhD in Film Studies

Newcastle University

PhD supervision is normally available in the following areas: Early cinema and cinema culture in Britain and the USA; British cinema, particularly 1940–60; Contemporary Spanish and Latin American cinemas; French cinema; Algerian cinema; Transnational Chinese cinema; The vampire on film in any language.

PhD in Drama: Theatre, Film, Television (PhD)

University of Bristol

Drama: Theatre, Film, Television is acknowledged as one of the leading Departments in the country. The Department is a vibrant creative community of scholars, practitioner-researchers and production staff working across and between performance and screen. Both research and teaching include film, screen and media-based work as well as performance and theatre-based projects. Staff and students are engaged in scholarly research practices as well as practice-based work. They are acknowledged as leaders in their fields, and the Department's research was rated very highly in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.

PhD in Theatre Studies

University of Essex

This allows you to undertake research in the field of theatre studies.

PhD in Film Studies

University of Essex

This allows you to undertake research in the field of film studies.

PhD in Music, Theatre and Performance, Music Therapy, Dramatherapy

Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus

We offer PhD research degrees in a range of topics encompassing international-level scholarship across a broad spectrum of topics, including creative music technology, music therapy, composition, musicology, dramatherapy and drama and theatre studies (including contemporary theatre practice & critical theory, performance and interdisciplinary arts practice).

PhD in Drama PhD

Goldsmiths, University of London

We offer a wide range of supervision in our Department of Drama. Please see the Goldsmiths website for details of staff research interests.