Programme overview

Establish a leading reputation in digital humanities, cultures, and media, focusing on dynamic intersections across the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Supporting cutting-edge digital skills to drive innovation in digital humanities, cultures, and media.

Connect with a diverse international community of digitial leaders, leveraging extensive UK cultural partnerships to drive impactful research and collaboration.

Programme description

This programme enables you to engage at the doctoral level with projects involving the use of digital methods and/or critical, theoretically informed research in the humanities and media studies. It offers a pathway for postgraduate research to graduates of the MA programme in Digital Media, Culture and Society, as well as graduates from other fields who wish to pursue cross-disciplinary research with and on digital technology and culture.

Designed for those with a background in the humanities or social sciences, the programme helps you develop critical, methodological, and practical skills and knowledge by undertaking original research in the digital humanities, digital media studies, and the study of digital culture. Primary supervision will be provided by members of the Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures, and Media, whose expertise includes a wide range of topics such as critical algorithm studies, humanities data visualization, digital economy, digital heritage, digital media, gender, sexuality, transnationalism, digital navigation, digital literary studies, distant reading, digital history, machine vision, platform studies, and spatial humanities. You will benefit from the Centre’s vibrant research community, which includes guest seminars, workshops, summer schools, project development sessions, and methods training.

To further develop your methodological and practical skills, you will also have the opportunity to audit relevant courses from the MA in Digital Media, Culture and Society, such as Introduction to Digital Media, Digital Methods, and Data in Culture and Society.

Career opportunities

As a postgraduate researcher, you will have access to a dedicated researcher development training to support your professional development throughout your PhD journey and beyond.

Our researcher development programme will enable you to become more aware of your developing researcher identity, equipping you with the skills you need during your PhD and prepare you to integrate into the researcher community.

At every stage of your career, you will receive relevant, effective and comprehensive professional development opportunities.