PhD Research

The Centre for Cultural Policy Research is home to a thriving cohort of postgraduate research students and welcomes applications to undertake studies for higher degrees (MPhil or PhD) in the following broad areas of staff interest and specialism:

• Creativity and innovation in the cultural and media industries
• Cultural and national identities and communications in the global context
• Media management and media economics
• Media regulation and cultural policy in the UK and EU
• Media and representations of business
• Media, journalism and sport
• Journalism

Glasgow is rated Scotland's top university for international student satisfaction (International Student Barometer 2010).

Further information about postgraduate studies by research at CCPR can be found in the brochure.

CCPR currently has PhD students undertaking a wide range of research in culture, media and performance. Projects underway at present include:

• The Edinburgh International Festival
• Broadcasting in the UK and Iran
• Creative Industries Policy in Korea
• Museums Policy in Taiwan and Scotland
• Television and the State in Korea
• Public Art Projects and Rural Development in Scotland
• Sri Lankan heritage youth, migration and television
• Journalism in China
• The Gaming Audience.
• The Film Critic in the Digital Age
• Diasporic Identities and Television
• Discourses of "Casual" and "Hardcore" in Digital Games

Informal enquiries can be made through the Postgraduate Convenor Professor Raymond Boyle

For further information on Postgraduate Research degree's, how to apply, funding etc, please visit the College of Arts Graduate School.