UK: PhD funding, Loughborough University

administrator · December 26, 2024

Opportunities at Loughborough University to study for a PhD in Communication and Media and other Social Science disciplines

Loughborough University is a member of the Midlands Graduate School ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership, which awards a large number of studentships to outstanding applicants across the Social Sciences. We would like to invite prospective PhD applicants with proposals for research in media and communication that align with our research expertise in;

Political Communication – mis/disinformation, public sphere, political campaigns, journalism and the future of news

Language and social interaction – healthcare, crises and emergencies, disordered talk, AI and voice technologies

Media, memory and history – cultural and art history, collective memory, museums, media time and rituals

Media and identity – gender, ethnicity, nationalism

For a full-list of CM staff and their research interests, go to; https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/communication-media/staff/

Successful applicants would become members of the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture (CRCC) which is an interdisciplinary community interested in how communication and culture shape the key challenges of our times. Since 1991, we have developed into the largest research centre of this kind in the UK. The 2021 Research Excellence Framework ranked us 5th in the UK and the 2022 QS World University Ranking placed us in the top 100 for communications and media research

For further information about the studentships, see - https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/mgsdtp/studentships/loughborough/#communicationmedia

https://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research-degrees/research-areas/communication-media/

Please send a research proposal (1000 words) and a CV (two pages) to Dr Michael Skey, m.skey@lboro.ac.uk. The proposal should include a project title, summary of the problem/significance, main research question, indication of key literature/theoretical
concepts and proposed research method(s). It would be helpful if you could indicate two or three members of staff who you might like to work with