Journalism and Communications PhD

Research a topic of your choice or work on an extended creative project. Boost your professional practice and develop high-level skills and knowledge to progress your career.<br/><br/>You’ll benefit from an experienced team of research-active scholars and industry practitioners who can offer supervision across a range of topics.<br/><br/>We support research in the following areas:<br/><br/><br/>- ethics in sports journalism<br/><br/><br/>- live reporting<br/><br/><br/>- digital media in live sporting events<br/><br/><br/>- sport communications<br/><br/><br/>Current postgraduate research includes:<br/><br/><br/>- ‘Post it to make it’: How Women’s Super League Players Frame Themselves on Social Media<br/><br/><br/>- Musicians of the Movement: A chronological timeline of the influence of high-profile celebrity musicians’ Instagram posts on the Black Lives Matter movement.<br/><br/><br/>**Study style**<br/><br/>You’ll have the opportunity to choose between a research-based or practice-based project. For example, write a thesis of 80,000 words for the research-based PhD (30,000 words for the MA by Research) or, for the practice-based option, create a piece of content or stage a multi-media event and accompany it with a much-shorter written component. As a practice-based student, you’ll have access to our state-of-the-art studios and equipment.<br/><br/>Students who haven’t already completed a relevant Master’s degree are normally required to complete two research-methods modules: Philosophy and Approaches to Research, and Methodologies and Methods. These sessions and their related assignments will help you lay the critical foundations for your project.<br/><br/>This research contributes to the research priority area Being Human: Past, Present and Future and Creative Practice as Research.