ACADEMIC SCHOOLS AND DEPARTMENTS INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
Research opportunities
Our areas of research
PhD 3 years full-time; 5 years part-time
The Institute for Media and Creative Industries has four key research areas:
MPhil 2 years full-time; 3 years part-time Entry requirements A 2:1 honours degree or its equivalent. The housing of our five institutes and one academy within a single building provides a unique opportunity to promote inter and multidisciplinary research. Organisations from London, the UK and around the world will work in close partnership with the Institute for Media and Creative Industries, allowing transfer of new knowledge to all sectors.
Supporting you
Research students within the Institute for Media and Creative Industries are provided with: • supervisors who, together with the Director of Research Degree Programmes, provide academic and pastoral support • 24-hour access to a dedicated research space • hot desks • meeting rooms • individual study space • kitchen and dining area • free photocopying • inter-library loan funding
Infrastructure
We will analyse technological innovation, regulation, labour, meaning, and ownership, utilising ethnographic, political-economic, environmental, activist, and publicpolicy research.
Labour
We will engage the legal, economic, training, environmental, and organisational context of work, drawing on institutional and ethnographic methods to engage both structural and experiential determinations.
Output
We will teach students cultural production and address both content analysis and textual analysis, combining statistical and hermeneutic methods to establish patterns of meaning.
Audiences
We will address ratings, uses-and-gratifications, effects, active-audience, ethnographic, and psychoanalytic traditions, combining quantitative and qualitative measures to establish the audience’s composition and conduct in the wake of cultural consumption.
Research students are expected to attend appropriate training and departmental seminars. You will also be required to present at least one paper at a departmental seminar.
How to apply
Applications for research should indicate the institute within which the applicant would like to study and preferably the member(s) of staff whose research area is of most interest. A brief research proposal should be included with your application. Contact: Professor Toby Miller, Director of the Institute for Media and Creative Industries – b.t.a.miller@lboro.ac.uk, or to apply direct, please follow the link lborolondon.ac.uk/phdapply
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