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Digital Media Arts PhD

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Full time | Stag Hill | 4 years | APR-25

Study mode

Full time

Duration

4 years

Start date

APR-25

Key information
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Qualification type

PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy

Subject areas

Digital Media Multimedia (Computing) Computer Games Design

Course type

Research

Course Summary

Why choose this programme

On our vibrant and expanding Digital Media Arts PhD programme, we embrace subjects that include:

Film, animation
Visual effects, computational arts
Video games
Immersive media
Digital acting
Mediatised theatre
Motion graphics
Movement interfaces
Performance capture
Machine vision
Interactive cinema.

This provides you with an opportunity to undertake profound and meaningful practice-based and theoretical postgraduate research in these fields, where creativity and technology collide. Your skills and talents as a media practitioner, alongside intellectual curiosity, collaborative spirit, technical proficiency and sense of adventure, all come into play as you make use of the state-of-the-art facilities, great workspaces and dedicated multi-disciplinary supervision. You will also benefit from our extensive connections to the creative industries through our wide range of partners within film production companies, animation houses, VFX facilities and studios.

Our Guildford location is a short train journey from central London, and a town which is home to some of the most well-regarded games developers, immersive media producers and web design agencies, including:

Supermassive
MediaMolecule
Electronic Arts
Figment Productions
BlueGFX
Criterion.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£4,712

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£22,500

Entry requirements

Applicants are expected to hold a minimum of upper second-class (2:1) UK degree and usually an MA in a relevant arts subject or appropriate professional experience. Candidates submitting proposals that include practice-based research will be required to provide evidence of appropriate experience and expertise.

University information

The University of Surrey was established in 1891, and has a rich history of education and innovation. Surrey welcomes more than 3,500 postgraduate students to its campus annually, and the university is home to an academic community which represents over 120 countries from around the world. Surrey is renowned for celebrating diversity and places cultural inclusivity at the centre of all its activities. Surrey is a research-driven university...more