PhD/MPhil Communication

City St George's, University of London

The PhD in Communication provides you with the academic and professional opportunities to develop as an independent, creative and original thinker who is capable of contributing to knowledge and research at the forefront of the discipline.You will work closely with a supervisory team, whose areas of expertise align with your chosen topic.You will be based in the dynamic Department of Media, Culture and Creative Industries, which is committed to forward-, outward- and industry-facing research. (You may, however, be assigned a supervisor or supervisors from the Department of Journalism, if relevant to you topic.) The training that you will receive and the research that you will conduct should have real-life application, both within and beyond academiaOur research strengths and areas of supervisory expertise include:advertisinghealth communicationscommunication policylaw and ethicspolitical communicationsocial mediapublic relations (PR)strategic communicationAI, innovation and communicationconflict and crisis (conflict reporting, climate reporting democracy and media freedom gender, communication and journalism).The Full-time duration is 2 – 4 years Part time: 3 – 7 years and PhD by prior publication: 1 year.

Department of Media, Cultural and Creative Industries