Dear colleagues,
please pass on to suitable students,
many thanks.
If you are interested in pursuing research at a PhD level
and you have a good idea for a research project, then you may want to consider
the possibility of pursuing a PhD at the
We are interested in topics that match our own research
interests and you can have a look at the research we do at http://ics.leeds.ac.uk.
Indicatively we have research strength and interest in the
following areas of media and communication:
International and Political Communication,
Media Industries
These areas include any aspect of European, global and
transnational media and communication;
political economy of media, journalism;
war, media and propaganda;
questions of diaspora, identity and culture in global and
transnational contexts;
any aspect of media and cultural policy: such as information
communication technologies, public service broadcasting, intellectual property,
global policy regimes and civil society, social cohesion, gender and media
policies in European, national or global contexts;
citizenship and communication in the global context;
public sphere and the new forms of communication;
Media representations;
Gender and media;
Media and development;
Audiences;
Political campaigns and the media;
representation of politics and portrayal of political
activity in the media;
e-governance and e-democracy in
media and the new democracies;
media and democratic theory;
questions around media industries: the creative process;
policy and content; the global culture industry; social change;
questions of mediated governance in
the role of institutions in media policy, governance and
media, technologies and technological development.
We accept applications throughout the year but if you are
interested in applying for a scholarship (see university website at: http://scholarships.leeds.ac.uk/ )
then you need to keep in mind the following deadlines:
ORSAS scholarships
for overseas students. Deadline 31st January 2007 http://www.leeds.ac.uk/rds/schol/orsas-info.htm
ICS scholarships: This year ICS offers 4 Home/EU equivalent
fee-waiver scholarships to candidates interested in exploring any topic in the
fields of
communication and citizenship,
international media and identity,
international or national media policy and
media industries :
deadline 23rd March 2007. For more
information visit: http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/research/scholar.cfm
About ICS:
The
Moreover, the Institute hosts two international journals;
the International Journal of Media and
Cultural Politics (http://ics.leeds.ac.uk) and the
journal of Early Popular Visual Culture
(http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17460654.asp
). Recently it also launched the electronic
international journal of Zizek Studies (http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/zizek/).
ICS also hosts major resource websites on media and war and on media policy
that are used by scholars internationally.
Our academic staff are experts in their field who work
together with NGOs, governments, the EU and international organizations as well
as the media and culture industries and have a long list of important
publications. ICS staff published 39 books, 5 of which only in 2006 and with
more forthcoming in 2007. You can have a look at our books here: http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/research/books.cfm
The detailed publication of research papers can be found on designated staff
webpages.
Alongside significant appointments for the strengthening of
our existing and developing research, the institute has also recently welcome
Prof. Stephen Coleman in Political Communication and Prof. Juliet Lodge in
European Studies, who joined Professors Phil Taylor and David Morrison, and
will be enriched by two more senior staff Prof. David Hesmondhalgh in Media
Industries and Prof. Gary Rawnsley in Asian Media and Communications.
Our PhD community is a team of excellent junior scholars
from more than 10 countries who give seminars, attend national and
international conferences and are involved in teaching, research and journal
editorial assistantships. Our PhD team is also currently preparing an
international postgraduate conference: http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~icsfsp/
.
We expect PhD candidates to live and work at
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Dr Katharine Sarikakis
Postgraduate Research Tutor