Film and TV Studies PhD

University of Glasgow

Our outward-looking, multi-disciplinary research activities are based on high-quality, challenging and flexible graduate programmes. We offer postgraduate research students a wide range of options for independent study, from one-year taught degrees to three-year doctoral programmes. In undertaking such a programme, you will be joining a thriving and vibrant postgraduate community. We welcome students from a variety of backgrounds, working on areas of specialist interest using methods from the arts, humanities and social sciences, including, where appropriate, research through practice. Our College of Arts Graduate School creates a productive and interdisciplinary collegiate environment for all of our research students. We offer a range of services, courses and skills development opportunities for research students. The College of Arts is home to a vibrant and diverse community of students enrolled on taught masters and research programmes within a stimulating intellectual and cultural environment. Across every school and subject area the college is home to world-leading and agenda-setting research.A Doctor of Philosophy may be awarded to a student whose thesis is an original work making a significant contribution to knowledge in, or understanding of, a field of study and normally containing material worthy of publication. We also welcome practice-based PhDs where the written part of thesis will be of a shorter word length, but include a substantive piece(s) of practice. The written component of the thesis will be negotiated with your supervisor, but will not normally be under 30,000 words.