| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2024-09-01 | - |
| 2025-01-01 | - |
| 2025-04-01 | - |
Program Overview
The Media and Communications PhD at the University of Sussex is a research-based program that equips students with the skills to explore the role of media in everyday life, politics, and culture. Students will develop their research abilities, gain a critical understanding of media cultures, and work closely with expert faculty to conduct independent research projects in areas such as social and cultural analysis of media, media representation, and media histories and theories.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Media and Communications PhD at the University of Sussex is a research-based program that allows students to explore the role of media in everyday life, politics, and culture. The program is designed to provide students with the skills and knowledge necessary to conduct independent research and contribute to the field of media and communications studies.
Objectives:
The program aims to:
- Develop students' research skills and abilities.
- Equip students with a critical understanding of media cultures.
- Foster students' ability to conduct rigorous critical and historical studies of media.
- Support students in developing their own research projects.
Description:
Students will work with expert faculty who will guide and supervise them throughout their research project. They will join an active research culture engaged in rigorous critical and historical studies of a wide range of media cultures.
Other:
- Areas of Study: The program particularly welcomes research proposals in areas such as:
- Social and cultural analysis of media forms, institutions, and practices
- Media representation and media audiences
- Advertising and consumption
- Feminist, queer, and activist media studies
- Media histories and theories
- Visual, audiovisual, and sound cultures.
- Co-Supervision: Projects can be co-supervised with faculty in other subject areas as appropriate.
- Program Changes: The university will make all reasonable efforts to provide students with the courses, services, and facilities described in the prospectus. However, if material changes are necessary, students will be notified as soon as possible.
Home students:
£4,786 per year for full-time students
Channel Islands and Isle of Man students:
£4,786 per year for full-time students
International students:
£21,500 per year for full-time students
