Stage and Screen PhD

Learn in our our specialist film studies facilities including a purpose-built film theatre, The Void. Our research strengths in film and TV include American, British and Irish, East Asian, and European cinemas, adaptation, documentary, horror, and television; and in performance studies they include applied theatre, contemporary British playwriting, site-based performance, theatre historiography, ethnography and popular culture, performance philosophy, and the monologue. Several members of the team engage with practice-as-research methodologies, including screenwriting.

This degree is hosted in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities Graduate School. The rigorous analytical thinking necessary for research degrees is attractive to employers.

You will have the opportunity to develop a range of transferable skills which are applicable in related areas such as the film industry, film curatorship and preservation, the creative industries and beyond.