Culture, Media & Creative Industries Research MPhil/PhD

Overview

Culture, Media & Creative Industries at King's carries out world-leading research across the field of culture, media and the analysis of particular creative industries. Specialisms include cultural work, creative cities, media industries research, cultural and creative industries policy, arts and cultural management, entrepreneurship and cultural production, memory and heritage. Emerging research areas within the department encompass gender, sexuality and critical race research, and cultures of care. 

• Departments of CMCI & Digital Humanities – jointly ranked in top 10 in UK (REF 2021). 100% of the departments research impact and research environment were rated as either ‘world leading (4*) or ‘internationally excellent (3*).

• Current staff: 38

• Current PhD students: 49
  

Research funded by:

• London Arts and Humanities Research Council (LAHP) 
• National and regional governments and funding bodies
• London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (ESRC)

Recent publications:

• Narratives of migration, relocation and belonging: Latin Americans in London, by Patria Roman-Velazquez
• Higher Education and Policy for Creative Economies in Africa: Developing Creative Economies, by Roberta Comunian, Brian J. Hracs and Lauren England
• Women and TV Culture in Pakistan: Gender, Islam and National Identity, by Munira Cheema
• Feminist Afterlives: Assemblage Memory in Activist Times, by Red Chidgey
• Multimedia Stardom in Hong Kong: Image, performance and identity by Wing-Fai Leung 
• Contemporary Art & Unforgetting in Colonial Landscapes: Islands of Empire, by Kate McMillan
• The Space that Separates: A Realist Theory of Art, by Nick Wilson
• Work That Body: Male Bodies in Digital Culture by Jamie Hakim

To study at King's, it is essential that you can communicate effectively in English and are able to do so in an academic environment. You are usually required to provide certification of your competence in English before starting your studies.

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