PhD opportunities in School of Art and Creative Industries, LSBU

The School of Arts and Creative industries is an ideal place to undertake PhD research. You will join a small, vibrant and diverse group of PhD students and will be supervised by academics of international standing. Our doctoral students often work together organising conferences, assisting academics in editing academic journals and publications and leading research-related events and symposia.

There are two Research Centres in the department reflecting distinct areas of specialism – Centre for the Study of Networked Image and Creative Technologies Research Centre. Our academic members of staff are active researchers, working at the cutting edge of research in many different aspects of performance and theatre, curation, museum studies, cultural policy, networked cultures, photography, film and journalism.

We offer PhD supervision in a range of subject areas, methodological approaches and theoretical approaches, including practice-based research.

We welcome proposals in all areas of research relevant to the School, but are particularly interested in applications which relate to one or more of the following:

• online network cultures and the networked image
• art and technology
• cultural policy
• museum studies
• performance and borders
• performance and digital technologies
• institutional and educational evaluation
• digital storytelling (including digital journalism)
• sonic culture
• audience research
• production research (including games and VR/AR/MR)

Application process:

We require that candidates submit the following documents:

• PhD proposal of maximum two A4 pages (please ensure that you use 12pt font)
• CV outlining your experience
• Names and contact details of two referees

Use our application portal:

https://apply-ukapplications.lsbu.ac.uk/signin?ReturnUrl=%2f

Any programme enquiries can be sent to Director of PG Research Dr Patrick Tarrant tarrantp@lsbu.ac.uk.