Study

Research programmes: Culture Lab’s research groups in Digital Interaction and Digital Media are home to over 30 PhD students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and from a range of schools within the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences (HaSS) and the Faculty of Science, Agriculture & Engineering (SAgE). Culture Lab academics primarily supervise students on the following PhD programmes (topics are indicative only):

  • PhD in Digital Media: Digital arts practice; emerging technologies and experimental practice; art and science practice; transdisciplinary practice; data visualisation and creative practice; affective computing and creative practice; new production environments and living labs; open source culture and creativity; and crowdsourcing and creativity. [More information] [Apply]
  • PhD in Computing Science: human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing (including activity recognition and context aware computing), interaction design, experience centred and participatory design theory and practice, interaction techniques and technologies (including tangible and embedded interaction), participatory media, computer support collaborative systems, technology enhanced learning, digital health and wellbeing, social media & social computing. [More information][Apply]
  • PhD in Music: digital creative practice, digital media and improvisation, studio-based composition, hip hop, funk, jazz and counterculture, ethnomusicology; cultural history and theory of technology; psychoanalysis. [More information][Apply]

Taught programme: the MA in Creative Arts Practice is a practice-based, transdisciplinary programme that focuses on emerging creative practice and creative entrepreneurship in the digital age. The programme is designed for artists, designers, musicians, writers and computer scientists who are interested in exploring novel disciplines in relation to transdisciplinary practice in order to expand their current work portfolio and to learn new technologies and skills. Programme streams include specialist modules in Digital Media, Creative Enterprise, Fine Art, Film, Architecture, Creative Writing, Music, Media & Communication, and Museum & Art Curatorship. [More information][Apply]