Digital Humanities Research MPhil/PhD

The Department of Digital Humanities at Kings College London is one of the worlds most prestigious centres and a pioneer in its field. We aim to provide outstanding doctoral supervision and training, and to prepare students for careers both in the academy and outside. We have numerous links with key institutions across the cultural and creative sectors, as well as SMEs in the digital and media industries. The Department of Digital Humanities offers a PhD programme for suitably qualified candidates who wish to explore the transformative effects of digital information, technologies, and methods on the humanities, arts, culture and society. Research in the Department reflects a ‘big tent view of the digital humanities, and there are no a priori restrictions on the area of research, assuming that appropriate supervisors can be found, and no fixed expectations of technical skills. We welcome applications from potential students with any disciplinary background in the humanities or social sciences.

Our areas of doctoral supervision include (but are not limited to):

• AI art and computational creativity
• Algorithmic power
• Children and media
• Cinema and television
• Cities and digital urbanism
• Climate change, environment, and the Anthropocene
• Computational linguistics and literary studies
• Critical AI studies
• Critical theory and philosophy of digital media
• Critical technical practices
• Cultural data science
• Data visualization
• Digital classics
• Digital archives and cultural heritage
• Digital finance
• Digital geographies
• Digital health
• Digital history
• Digital infrastructures
• Digital methods
• Digital multilingualism
• Digital publishing
• Ethics and AI
• Extended Reality and perception
• Gender and digital culture
• Generative AI and Large Language Models
• Global South and digital technologies
• Internet governance
• Intimacy and digital technologies
• Media audiences
• Music and the digital
• Open data
• Photography and nonhuman vision
• Platform studies
• Political communication
• Postcolonialism
• Social media
• Software studies
• Surveillance studies
• Videogames and game studies
• Work and politics.

An MA degree in the humanities or social sciences or an MSc in a relevant subject area, with a mark of Distinction or high Merit. In exceptional circumstances, applicants holding a first class honours degree may be admitted. Applicants must demonstrate mastery of the academic background deemed relevant to the research proposed.