22 Film and Theatre Studies PhDs in United Kingdom

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 and Theatre Studies

University of Birmingham

This programme allows you to combine taught coursework (120 credits) with a full-length doctoral thesis (420 credits).

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 Film Studies Practice By Research

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 Creative Arts, Film and Media

University of Portsmouth

Supervision is available for research in the following areas: Creative arts/drama; cultural, creative film history; national and international film/video making; media cultural and historical studies; virtual theatre; and creative writing research through practice

PhD in Film and Television Production

Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus

In Cambridge School of Art there exists a vibrant and growing community of researchers at PhD level. In the area of film and TV production the topics for these PhD research degrees are linked to staff expertise together with student interests, and reflect the increasing potential of practice-based PhD studies.

PhD in Literature

University of Essex

This allows you to undertake research in the field of literature.

PhD in French Studies

The University of Edinburgh

The French Section of the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures very much welcome s enquiries from prospective PhD students about all areas of their research expertise.

PhD in Fine Art

Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus

In Cambridge School of Art there exists a vibrant and growing community of researchers at PhD level. In the area of fine art the topics for these PhD research degrees are linked to staff expertise together with student interests, and reflect the increasing potential of practice-based PhD studies.

PhD in Film Studies Research

Kings College London

The Film Studies Department is the leading centre for the study of cinema in London, a position it has consolidated through recent appointments and our unique facilities for film research. The programme has research strengths in three major areas: European cinema, cultural approaches and film theory. Staff publications and research encompass national cinemas - especially French, Italian and Spanish - with popular European genres and stars, the notion of art cinema, documentary and the avant-garde. Cultural approaches extend to a wider range of films (American and Asian as well as European) including the representation of the city, national and trans-national identity in film, international cinephilia, popular Asian cinema, costume/heritage drama, gender, sexuality and ethnicity, the relationship between film and new media and special effects. Work in the area of film theory addresses the relationship between film studies and other disciplines like philosophy, psychoanalysis, geography, music and art history.

PhD in School of Arts PhD Programmes

Brunel University

The School of Arts offers postgraduate research in a diverse range of areas with specialists available to supervise study in the fields of Film and TV Studies, English , Contemporary Drama and Performance Studies and Music.

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.