The University of Brighton has a research culture in film and screen studies that has fostered national archives and given critical insight across practice, theory and history.The city of Brighton itself was the home of pioneering filmmakers in the 1890s, making it a birthplace of modern cinema. It has long been a cultural icon in British screen history, and is today a vibrant hub of contemporary media industry activity including digital media, games and film.At the university, we have expert supervisory staff across film theory and history and also broadcast media production including television and podcast. We welcome approaches for PhD research in film and screen using any viable methodologies, whether traditional academic analysis with written outputs or practice-led making in film, animation or design for gaming. Academic activity in this area extends into a range of related disciplines including popular culture, sound arts and podcasting. Our approach incorporates text (in the widest sense), technology, industry and audience with multidisciplinary researchers interrogating contemporary developments in media cultures, drawing on critical approaches to popular spectacle, literature, theatre, photography and sociology.We offer PhD study in both full and part-time modes and welcome students with significant professional experience, who are able to use and share the career skills they have developed, as well as those who have recently completed first degrees and wish to take advantage of their academic momentum.Recent, successful PhDs in film and screen studies have covered a range of areas, including structures in Hollywood scriptwriting, convergence across transnational children’s franchises, urban architecture and science-fiction cinema, documentary filmmaking, filmic autobiography, and LGBTQ+ online cultures.Our film PhD graduates have gone on to a variety of different roles following the successful completion of their research. These include academic posts as lecturers and postdoctoral research assistants at Brighton and elsewhere. Others have returned into media from taking their PhD mid-career, or have begun careers in the creative industries, for example in script consultancy for major film producers or in advertising.