Interdisciplinary Studies

Entry requirements

2:i undergraduate degree and a Master's (or equivalent) in a relevant subject.

Months of entry

October

Course content

As a PhD candidate within CIM, you will be part of a thriving research culture. You will have the opportunity to work with emerging and well-established academics and to share, develop and discuss your research. Through regular seminars, events and training workshops, our graduates are equipped with a wide range of academic and professional skills. We welcome research proposals that are highly interdisciplinary and methodologically innovative, and which focus on the Centre's main research themes: Applications, Interfaces and Gestures; Change and Continuity; Experiments in Participation; and Method and Methodology.

Areas for PhD supervision

Actor Network Theory; Big Data and Society; Branding and Consumer Culture; Change and Continuity; Children and Childhood; Cities and Urban Change; Complexity Theory; Computational Cultures; Critical Realism; Critical and Cultural Theory; Cultural Economy; Curatorial Practice; Digital Art; Digital Humanities; Digital Mapping; Digital Methodologies; Digital Play; Digital Research Methods; Digital Publishing; Feminist and Cultural Theory; Food; GIS and Spatial Dynamics; Interdisciplinary Methodologies; Interface Criticism; Media Theory; Neoliberalism; Network Politics; Open Source and Free Culture; Philosophy of Technology; Sociology of Culture; Software Studies; Time and Temporality; Social Life of Data; Visualisation.

Department specialisms

Areas for PhD supervision Actor Network Theory; Big Data and Society; Branding and Consumer Culture; Change and Continuity; Children and Childhood; Cities and Urban Change; Complexity Theory; Computational Cultures; Critical Realism; Critical and Cultural Theory; Cultural Economy; Curatorial Practice; Digital Art; Digital Humanities; Digital Mapping; Digital Methodologies; Digital Play; Digital Research Methods; Digital Publishing; Feminist and Cultural Theory; Food; GIS and Spatial Dynamics; Interdisciplinary Methodologies; Interface Criticism; Media Theory; Neoliberalism; Network Politics; Open Source and Free Culture; Philosophy of Technology; Sociology of Culture; Software Studies; Time and Temporality; Social Life of Data; Visualisation.

Information for international students

English Language requirement: IELTS 7.0, Band B. For more guidance on English language requirements please visit this page.

Fees and funding

For more information on funding please visit our Postgraduate fees and funding page.

Qualification and course duration

MPhil/PhD