Digital Media PhD
    Duration3 year(s)
    Tuition Fee
    GBP 32,423 / year(s)
    Next IntakeSeptember 1, 2026

    Digital Media PhD

    About

    Overview

    The Digital Media PhD is part of the Fine Art programme of study. We offer PhD supervision in two main areas of digital media.

    Digital arts practice is led by Dr Tom Schofield. It includes topics such as:

    • emerging technologies and experimental practice
    • art and science practice
    • transdisciplinary practice
    • interactivity and human-computer interaction in arts practice
    • data visualisation and creative practice
    • affective computing and creative practice
    • applied philosophy
    • philosophy of cognition
    • contemporary art and media theory
    • new production environments and living labs
    • open source culture and creativity
    • crowdsourcing and creativity

    Digital media in museum, gallery and heritage settings is led by Dr Areti Galani. It includes topics such as:

    • online museum, gallery and heritage experiences
    • social software and its implications for the cultural sector
    • design and use of mobile, personal and ubiquitous technologies in cultural settings
    • study and understanding of social museum experiences
    • theory and practice of visitor studies
    • ethnographic and ethnomethodological approaches in the study of museum experiences

    Requirements

    Entry Requirements

    Typically we recognise the following in a Bachelors degree:

    • 3.5/4.0 or 4.25/5.0 (85%) as comparable to a 1st Class
    • Minimum GPA of 3.75/5.0 (75%) as comparable to a 2.1
    • 3.5/5.0 or 2.8/4.0 (70%) as comparable to a 2.2

    Admissions criteria may vary depending on the course you are applying for, please check course specific entry requirements.

    English Requirements

    • IELTSMin 6.5

    English Program Requirements

    IELTS:

    Applicants whose first language is not English require a minimum score of IELTS 6.0 or equivalent including 5.5 in each of the four elements of the test.

    TOEFL:

    79 overall (with a minimum of 17 in listening, 18 in reading, 20 in speaking, and 17 in writing)

    Pearson:

    Pearsons 65 overall (with a minimum of 59 in all sub-skills).

    Duolingo:

    115 overall with no subskill below 100

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    Fee Information

    Tuition Fee
    32,423 / year(s)

    Digital Media PhD

    Newcastle University

    Newcastle University

    United Kingdom

    United Kingdom, Newcastle upon Tyne