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Dr Alex Murray
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in: Decadence and Aestheticism Oscar Wilde; Modernism Literature and place The politics of literary form Literary theory

Open to PhD applications in: Decadence and Aestheticism Oscar Wilde; Modernism Literature and place The politics of literary form Literary theory School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Derek Johnston
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in: Gothic / horror, science fiction, fantasy in and across media Representations of history in media. History of media, ...

television, film, horror, gothic, folk horror, science fiction, historical drama
Open to PhD applications in: Gothic / horror, science fiction, fantasy in and across media Representations of history in media. History of media, particularly in the UK School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Simon Statham
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in: Critical discourse analysis Language of crime Language in the media Language and the law Language and literature (sty...

Open to PhD applications in: Critical discourse analysis Language of crime Language in the media Language and the law Language and literature (stylistics) School of Arts, English and Languages
Professor Steven Wilson
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in: French Studies and the Critical Medical Humanities; Post-1789 French literature on health, illness, pathology, disabi...

french literature, medical humanities, healthcare, illness, disability, end of life
Open to PhD applications in: French Studies and the Critical Medical Humanities; Post-1789 French literature on health, illness, pathology, disability, pain, end of life; Literary and cultural representations of medical practice, care and experience; Interactions between medicine/science and gender, race, religion, (post-)colonialism and/or ecology/environmental humanities in modern and contemporary French literature, thought or culture. School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Tori Holmes
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in; Digital culture in Brazil/Latin America Representation of urban Brazil (particularly Rio de Janeiro/favelas) Contempo...

Open to PhD applications in; Digital culture in Brazil/Latin America Representation of urban Brazil (particularly Rio de Janeiro/favelas) Contemporary Brazilian audiovisual production (especially documentary) Urban violence in Brazil Brazilian/Latin American cultural studies Critical data studies Digital ethnography School of Arts, English and Languages
Professor Isabel Torres
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications across the broad spectrum of early modern Spanish literature /culture. The following fields are indicative: Early Modern S...

Open to PhD applications across the broad spectrum of early modern Spanish literature /culture. The following fields are indicative: Early Modern Spanish poetry /poetics Lyric: theories / practice Golden Age 'comedia' Legacy / reception of the Classics Cervantine Studies Comparative Literature School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Trevor Agus
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of  The perception of mixing Timbre perception with masking Adapting TV soundtracks for listeners with ...

timbre, hearing loss, perception, noise
Open to PhD applications in the field of  The perception of mixing Timbre perception with masking Adapting TV soundtracks for listeners with hearing losses The psychoacoustics of singing in tune Edge-tone perception Statistical techniques for psychoacoustical experiment designs, or perceptually motivated signal processing. School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Sian Barber
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of  British film history Film censorship Film controversy Audiences

film censorship, film history, archives, audiences, British cinema, British Board of Film Classification (BBFC)
Open to PhD applications in the field of  British film history Film censorship Film controversy Audiences School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Stefano Baschiera
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of  Italian cinema European Screen Industries Film and space New Wave cinema Film distribution

Open to PhD applications in the field of  Italian cinema European Screen Industries Film and space New Wave cinema Film distribution School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Piotr Blumczynski
School of Arts, English and Languages

Professor Blumczynski welcomes original and ambitious research proposals: Exploring the shared ground between translation and philosophy Logic The...

Professor Blumczynski welcomes original and ambitious research proposals: Exploring the shared ground between translation and philosophy Logic Theology Linguistics Literature Ethnography History Science and other areas School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Fran Brearton
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of  Modern poetry 20th century war writing Modern Irish literature Modernist literature

Open to PhD applications in the field of  Modern poetry 20th century war writing Modern Irish literature Modernist literature School of Arts, English and Languages
Professor Mark Thornton Burnett
School of Arts, English and Languages

I am open to PhD applications in the fields of  Global Shakespeares Shakespeare and film Shakespeare and adaptation Shakespeare and world cin...

shakespeare, global, cinema, film, asia, adaptation
I am open to PhD applications in the fields of  Global Shakespeares Shakespeare and film Shakespeare and adaptation Shakespeare and world cinema School of Arts, English and Languages
Professor Janice Carruthers
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of French Sociolinguistics Variation The Structure of Spoken French Temporality in French and Language Policy

Open to PhD applications in the field of French Sociolinguistics Variation The Structure of Spoken French Temporality in French and Language Policy School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Dominique Jeannerod
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Popular Cinema French Thrillers Literary Celebrity

Open to PhD applications in the field of Popular Cinema French Thrillers Literary Celebrity School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Leontia Flynn
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Poetry Creative writing

Open to PhD applications in the field of Poetry Creative writing School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Garrett Carr
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Creative Non-Fiction Fiction Young Adult Fiction

Open to PhD applications in the field of Creative Non-Fiction Fiction Young Adult Fiction School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Sue-Ann Harding
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Translation Social narrative theory Travelling theory Complexity theory Russian area studies Literature, ...

Open to PhD applications in the field of Translation Social narrative theory Travelling theory Complexity theory Russian area studies Literature, music, space and other related areas School of Arts, English and Languages
Professor Moyra Haslett
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Literature in English written and published between 1680 and 1830 Particularly: women’s writing, Jonathan...

Open to PhD applications in the field of Literature in English written and published between 1680 and 1830 Particularly: women’s writing, Jonathan Swift, Byron, Irish writing in English, And feminist approaches to literature and culture of this period. School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Chen-En Ho
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Cognitive translation and interpreting studies Translation and interpreting pedagogy Gamification & l...

Open to PhD applications in the field of Cognitive translation and interpreting studies Translation and interpreting pedagogy Gamification & learner motivation Feedback practices and autonomous learning Graduate employability Translation and interpreting industry School of Arts, English and Languages
Professor David Johnston
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Translation, Interpretation and Representation

Open to PhD applications in the field of Translation, Interpretation and Representation School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Edel Lamb
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the fields of: early modern studies, particularly Shakespeare and Renaissance performance cultures age, childhood and ...

shakespeare, renaissance, childhood, literature, drama, girlhood
Open to PhD applications in the fields of: early modern studies, particularly Shakespeare and Renaissance performance cultures age, childhood and gender in early modern literature and culture girlhood and literature early modern literature (especially drama) and civil unrest, including protest, riot. School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Stefanie Lehner
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture, specifically Northern Irish fiction and drama since the 1998 A...

Open to PhD applications in the field of Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture, specifically Northern Irish fiction and drama since the 1998 Agreement Comparative studies in Post-conflict cultures, specifically in relation to issues of dealing with the past and reconciliation Comparative studies in trauma and memory studies with a focus on the contemporary Irish cultural context School of Arts, English and Languages
Professor Philip McGowan
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of American Poetry, in particular Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop and the Middle Generation American Ficti...

Open to PhD applications in the field of American Poetry, in particular Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop and the Middle Generation American Fiction Transcendentalism Addiction and Literature Literature and Suicide School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Leon Litvack
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Dickens studies 19th-century British writers 19th-century Irish literature and culture 20th-century Irish...

Open to PhD applications in the field of Dickens studies 19th-century British writers 19th-century Irish literature and culture 20th-century Irish literature Modern post-colonial fiction & theory 19th-century women's travel writing The literature of landscape Film and fiction TV adaptations of 18th-century/Victorian fiction 20th and 21st-century fiction and poetry Textual criticism Landscape literature The literature of place School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Justin Livingstone
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Imperial travel writing and the literature of exploration Nineteenth and twentieth-century colonial ficti...

Open to PhD applications in the field of Imperial travel writing and the literature of exploration Nineteenth and twentieth-century colonial fiction The African novel in English School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Tim Loane
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Writing for screen Writing for theatre

Open to PhD applications in the field of Writing for screen Writing for theatre School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Jane Lugea
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of The language of literature (Cognitive) Stylistics (Critical) Discourse Analysis Translation Studies (of a...

Open to PhD applications in the field of The language of literature (Cognitive) Stylistics (Critical) Discourse Analysis Translation Studies (of audiovisual/literary texts or from a linguistic perspective) School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Marcas Mac Coinnigh
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Linguistics: formulaic language, multiword-fixed expressions in Irish Memory Studies: ideas of collective...

Open to PhD applications in the field of Linguistics: formulaic language, multiword-fixed expressions in Irish Memory Studies: ideas of collective and cultural memory in linguistic landscapes Folkloristics: the narrative tradition and verbal arts. School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Jimmy McAleavey
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Playwriting for stage and radio Screenwriting

Open to PhD applications in the field of Playwriting for stage and radio Screenwriting School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Sarah McCleave
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of G.F. Handel Thomas Moore London theatre history (c.1725-1825) Music in Ireland (c. 1750-1850) 19th-centur...

Open to PhD applications in the field of G.F. Handel Thomas Moore London theatre history (c.1725-1825) Music in Ireland (c. 1750-1850) 19th-century book trade School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Gail McConnell
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Contemporary Poetry Modern Irish and British poetry Poetics Gail supervises students undertaking both cr...

poetry, poetics, contemporary, Irish literature
Open to PhD applications in the field of Contemporary Poetry Modern Irish and British poetry Poetics Gail supervises students undertaking both critical and creative projects in poetry. School of Arts, English and Languages
Professor Aoife McGrath
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Dance Studies Choreographic Practices and Processes Practice as Research Parenthood and Performance / the...

dance, choreography, practice-as-research, creative arts and science collaboration, creative arts and policy, interdisciplinary collaboration, collaborative creative processes, dance and place, dance and environment, dance and parenthood, dance and community
Open to PhD applications in the field of Dance Studies Choreographic Practices and Processes Practice as Research Parenthood and Performance / the Maternal and Performance Movement practices and performance Interdisciplinary creative practices and processes Collaborative creative practices and processes Creative Arts and Science interdisciplinary research Affect Studies and the creative arts School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Maria Tavares
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Postcolonial literatures and film from Portuguese-speaking Africa Gender Studies Representations of Femal...

Open to PhD applications in the field of Postcolonial literatures and film from Portuguese-speaking Africa Gender Studies Representations of Female Heroism School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Ricki O’Rawe
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Argentine Literature and Art The Fantastic in Literature/Art/Film Hispanic Surrealism and Avant Garde Mov...

Open to PhD applications in the field of Argentine Literature and Art The Fantastic in Literature/Art/Film Hispanic Surrealism and Avant Garde Movements Religion and Spirituality in Hispanic Art and Literature Questions of Self and Subjectivity in Latin American Literature and Art School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Miguel Ortiz
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Digital Instrument Design and Performance Practice Technology Mediated Composition

Open to PhD applications in the field of Digital Instrument Design and Performance Practice Technology Mediated Composition School of Arts, English and Languages
Professor Glenn Patterson
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Creative Writing Prose

Open to PhD applications in the field of Creative Writing Prose School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Michael Pierse
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Twentieth and twenty-first century Irish writing (mainly drama and fiction) British and Irish working-cla...

Open to PhD applications in the field of Twentieth and twenty-first century Irish writing (mainly drama and fiction) British and Irish working-class writing Community Theatre Diaspora and migrant writing Race/ethnicity in contemporary Irish theatre School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Ramona Wray
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Early Modern Women’s Writing Shakespeare Adaptation Memory Studies

Open to PhD applications in the field of Early Modern Women’s Writing Shakespeare Adaptation Memory Studies School of Arts, English and Languages
Professor Pedro Rebelo
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Sound art Socially engaged arts Context-focused Composition and performance Multimodal food experience

Open to PhD applications in the field of Sound art Socially engaged arts Context-focused Composition and performance Multimodal food experience School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Shaun Regan
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Eighteenth-century literature (1660-1820) Prose fiction: Behn to Austen Laurence Sterne Literature of sla...

Open to PhD applications in the field of Eighteenth-century literature (1660-1820) Prose fiction: Behn to Austen Laurence Sterne Literature of slavery & abolition, 1660-1840 Contemporary historical fiction School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Marc Richards
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Syntax and/or morphology (theoretical, comparative) Cross-linguistic variation and its formal modelling D...

Open to PhD applications in the field of Syntax and/or morphology (theoretical, comparative) Cross-linguistic variation and its formal modelling Diachronic linguistics and language change Language acquisition (first or second, particularly the acquisition of grammatical knowledge) School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr David Robb
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Politics in music and song (all genres/ national/ international/ contemporary / historical) Cabaret and m...

Open to PhD applications in the field of Politics in music and song (all genres/ national/ international/ contemporary / historical) Cabaret and music theatre School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Daniel Roberts
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Eighteenth-century Periodicals Literature and empire Indian Literature in English The Lake Writers Irelan...

Open to PhD applications in the field of Eighteenth-century Periodicals Literature and empire Indian Literature in English The Lake Writers Ireland and Empire School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Rosalind Silvester
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Francophone-Chinese Studies Intermediality Contemporary literature, including women’s writing Migration /...

Open to PhD applications in the field of Francophone-Chinese Studies Intermediality Contemporary literature, including women’s writing Migration / Mobility Studies Sartrean Studies School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Caroline Sumpter
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Victorian Literature, Culture and Politics (including the 1890s) Literature and Science Literature and Et...

Open to PhD applications in the field of Victorian Literature, Culture and Politics (including the 1890s) Literature and Science Literature and Ethics Periodical Culture Nineteenth-Century Fantasy, including Science Fiction and Fairy Tale School of Arts, English and Languages
Professor Franziska Schroeder
School of Arts, English and Languages

I am open to PhD applications in any field that has music/music performance, digital media, and improvisation at its focus. I am particularly inter...

music, performance, inclusion, digital media, AI, VR, accessibility, disability
I am open to PhD applications in any field that has music/music performance, digital media, and improvisation at its focus. I am particularly interested in research that reaches beyond music and draws on other areas of research. Current interests include designing musical environments in AI, VR and XR, working for and with disabled musicians. School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Sarah Bowskill
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of Mexican literature and culture Cultural production from/about the Mexico-US border Latin American wo...

Open to PhD applications in the field of Mexican literature and culture Cultural production from/about the Mexico-US border Latin American women’s writing The politics and aesthetics of cultural institutions as they relate to Latin America e.g. film festivals, book fairs, publishing houses, galleries Latin American multimedia cultural production School of Arts, English and Languages
Professor Richard Schoch
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the areas of; Theatre Drama Performance Shakespeare

Open to PhD applications in the areas of; Theatre Drama Performance Shakespeare School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Paul Murphy
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the areas of; Arts-based interventions for public health and social change Simulation-based education for healthcare a...

Open to PhD applications in the areas of; Arts-based interventions for public health and social change Simulation-based education for healthcare and social care School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Aimee Mollaghan
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the areas of; Visual music, film sound, film music, television music, animation, landscape in cinema, acoustic ecology...

Open to PhD applications in the areas of; Visual music, film sound, film music, television music, animation, landscape in cinema, acoustic ecology and cinema, experimental film, experimental animation, expanded cinema, psychogeography and the moving image, digital special effects, Hollywood Cinema School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Des O'Rawe
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the areas of; Documentary Film and Visual Arts Political Filmmaking Cinema Adaptation Modernism

Open to PhD applications in the areas of; Documentary Film and Visual Arts Political Filmmaking Cinema Adaptation Modernism School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the areas of; The literature and culture of the Spanish Enlightenment Spanish Book History Larra

Open to PhD applications in the areas of; The literature and culture of the Spanish Enlightenment Spanish Book History Larra School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Ali FitzGibbon
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in: Cultural Labour (precarity, inequality) and the role of the artist Ethics, stakeholder management and organisational ...

Open to PhD applications in: Cultural Labour (precarity, inequality) and the role of the artist Ethics, stakeholder management and organisational decision-making in arts and cultural industries management Arts & CCI management studies (non-profit and social enterprise) Cultural leadership Themes of cultural policy-making with specific reference to festivals, youth arts and role of the artist School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Stephen Kelly
School of Arts, English and Languages

I welcome PhD applications in any aspect of; Late medieval literature and culture Fifteenth century religious and devotional literature and cultur...

I welcome PhD applications in any aspect of; Late medieval literature and culture Fifteenth century religious and devotional literature and culture Book history and digital textualities Historiographical writing Critical and cultural theory Translation theory Critical digital studies School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Geraldine Lawless
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in: Spanish literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries Questions of periodization Modernity, science, futurity and f...

Open to PhD applications in: Spanish literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries Questions of periodization Modernity, science, futurity and futuristic fiction Women's writing School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Stephen Sexton
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in: Creative Writing: Poetry

Open to PhD applications in: Creative Writing: Poetry School of Arts, English and Languages
Professor Yo Tomita
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in: Bach studies with all its branches

Open to PhD applications in: Bach studies with all its branches School of Arts, English and Languages
Mr Frank Delaney
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in: Practice-based applications in the area of broadcast production Factual/Documentary TV Radio Podcast Music Compositio...

Open to PhD applications in: Practice-based applications in the area of broadcast production Factual/Documentary TV Radio Podcast Music Composition for screen and audio Sound Design Proposals that use broadcast media to enquire into new ideas or thinking School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Sinead Sturgeon
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in: Nineteenth-century Irish writing (especially fiction and poetry) Gothic literature Law and literature

Open to PhD applications in: Nineteenth-century Irish writing (especially fiction and poetry) Gothic literature Law and literature School of Arts, English and Languages
Professor Micheal O Mainnin
School of Arts, English and Languages

I welcome PhD applications in any aspect of; Early modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic language and literature Language and identity in Ireland and S...

I welcome PhD applications in any aspect of; Early modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic language and literature Language and identity in Ireland and Scotland Language politics Onomastics Dialectology School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Zeynep Bulut
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in: Voice and Sound Studies Experimental Music Sound and Media Art

Open to PhD applications in: Voice and Sound Studies Experimental Music Sound and Media Art School of Arts, English and Languages
Professor Joan Rahilly
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in: Phonetics and phonology Clinical phonetics and linguistics General linguistics

Open to PhD applications in: Phonetics and phonology Clinical phonetics and linguistics General linguistics School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Trish McTighe
School of Arts, English and Languages

I would welcome PhD candidates who wish to work on any aspect of Samuel Beckett's oeuvre and / or students with interests in fields of theatre and ...

I would welcome PhD candidates who wish to work on any aspect of Samuel Beckett's oeuvre and / or students with interests in fields of theatre and gender studies in general. School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Helen Haswell
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in: Animation US Screen Industries Film Marketing American Cinema

Open to PhD applications in: Animation US Screen Industries Film Marketing American Cinema School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Fiona Clark
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in: Uses of material culture as creative reading Cultural and historical links between Ireland and Latin America, particu...

ireland and latin america, missionary writing, arpilleras, handmade books
Open to PhD applications in: Uses of material culture as creative reading Cultural and historical links between Ireland and Latin America, particularly protestant missions School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Simon Mawhinney
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in: Composition Notated music Composition Electronic music Computer Assisted composition

Music, Composition, Spectralism, Serialism, Computer-Assisted Composition
Open to PhD applications in: Composition Notated music Composition Electronic music Computer Assisted composition School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Elena Caoduro
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in: Representation of terrorism Cultural memory Nostalgia European and world cinema Gender studies

terrorism; nostalgia; fashion; gender; European cinema
Open to PhD applications in: Representation of terrorism Cultural memory Nostalgia European and world cinema Gender studies School of Arts, English and Languages
Dawn Watson
School of Arts, English and Languages

Poetry and creative writing

narrative poetry; Granta; working class; the Troubles; Northern Ireland; poem story; Elizabeth Bishop; childhood
Poetry and creative writing School of Arts, English and Languages
Gregory Toner
School of Arts, English and Languages

Medieval Irish language and literature

celtic, medieval, Ireland, literature, language, lexicography
Medieval Irish language and literature School of Arts, English and Languages
Michael West
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the field of… Scriptwriting in all forms and dramatic genres

script, scriptwriting, drama, film, radio, stage
Open to PhD applications in the field of… Scriptwriting in all forms and dramatic genres School of Arts, English and Languages
Claire Moran
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the fields of… Impressionism Gender Aesthetics 19thc textual and visual studies

impressionism, artists' writings, aesthetics
Open to PhD applications in the fields of… Impressionism Gender Aesthetics 19thc textual and visual studies School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Sophie Cooper
School of Arts, English and Languages

I am open to PhD applications in the field of Irish diaspora history; migration history since c.1800; gendered approaches to Irish religious histor...

irish diaspora, women, urban history, irish history
I am open to PhD applications in the field of Irish diaspora history; migration history since c.1800; gendered approaches to Irish religious history since c.1800; urban history. School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr. Kim-Marie Spence
School of Arts, English and Languages

I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: Cultural and Creative Industries, particularly of the Non-West Cultural Policy Creative Cities/Cit...

creative industries, cultural industries, cultural policy, k-pop, reggae, jamaica, south korea, postcolonialism
I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: Cultural and Creative Industries, particularly of the Non-West Cultural Policy Creative Cities/Cities of Culture Arts & Cultural Management in the Non-West School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Jasbeer Musthafa Mamalipurath
School of Arts, English and Languages

I am available to supervise PhD projects on: Media and Misinformation Disinformation Media, Religion and Culture Muslim Lives and Cultures Digital...

media and misinformation, disinformation, nedia, religion and culture, muslim lives and cultures, digital media and youth, young people and resilience, media and the global south, transnational media practices, south asian diaspora, critical caste studies
I am available to supervise PhD projects on: Media and Misinformation Disinformation Media, Religion and Culture Muslim Lives and Cultures Digital Media and Youth Young People and Resilience Media and the Global South Transnational Media Practices South Asian Diaspora Critical Caste Studies School of Arts, English and Languages
Darragh Lydon
School of Arts, English and Languages

I am available to supervise PhD projects on: Games Tech Digital Twins ASD Intervention with Games Tech

games tech, autism, digital twins
I am available to supervise PhD projects on: Games Tech Digital Twins ASD Intervention with Games Tech School of Arts, English and Languages
Merryn Davies-Deacon
School of Arts, English and Languages

I am available to supervise PhD projects on: French sociolinguistics Minoritised languages Projects in linguistics involving identity, prescriptio...

french, linguistics, sociolinguistics, minoritised languages, language revitalisation, language shift, language and identity, language revival, digital media, language standardisation, lexis
I am available to supervise PhD projects on: French sociolinguistics Minoritised languages Projects in linguistics involving identity, prescription/standardisation, language revitalisation/revival, (new) media, lexis, orthography, and/or sociolinguistic aspects of multilingualism. School of Arts, English and Languages
Síobhra Aiken
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the fields of… an nualitríocht athbheochan na Gaeilge (in Éirinn agus i Meiriceá Thuaidh) ...

léann an tráma agus na teistiméireachta, léann na cuimhne, diaspóra na nGael, Athbheochan na Gaeilge, cúrsaí inscne, réabhlóid na hÉireann (1916–23), trauma & testimony studies, memory studies, Irish diaspora, Irish Studies, the Gaelic Revival, gender studies, Irish revolution (1916–23), Irish Civil War (1922–23)
Open to PhD applications in the fields of… an nualitríocht athbheochan na Gaeilge (in Éirinn agus i Meiriceá Thuaidh) legacies of war and revolution trauma & testimony studies; medical histories; medical humanities School of Arts, English and Languages
Alexander Fisher
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the fields of… Music in film African cinema Online distribution of world cinema Cinema and diaspora Cross-cultu...

Africa, cinema, online, distribution, film, netflix, music, sound
Open to PhD applications in the fields of… Music in film African cinema Online distribution of world cinema Cinema and diaspora Cross-cultural approaches to film School of Arts, English and Languages
Gizem Melek
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the fields of journalism, political communication, media effects, agenda-setting and framing, election coverage, climat...

political communication, media effects, agenda-setting, social media, election coverage, Instagram, visual framing, gender and media, climate change communication
Open to PhD applications in the fields of journalism, political communication, media effects, agenda-setting and framing, election coverage, climate change communication, visual communication, social media studies, and gender representation in sports media. I welcome projects with a cross-national focus, particularly in Turkey, the UK, and the US. School of Arts, English and Languages
Anders Rykkja
School of Arts, English and Languages

Open to PhD applications in the fields of arts management and administration, cultural economics, cultural crowdfunding, platforms and digitalisati...

crowdfunding, cultural organizations, leadership and management, entrepreneurship, music industries, markets, ecosystems, production networks, economic sociology, valuation, platformisation
Open to PhD applications in the fields of arts management and administration, cultural economics, cultural crowdfunding, platforms and digitalisation of cultural production, ecosystems and communities of practice, political economy, music industries, and cultural entrepreneurship. School of Arts, English and Languages
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