Cultural Studies PhD 36 months PHD Program By The University of Edinburgh. |Top Universities
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Program Duration

36 monthsProgram duration

Main Subject Area

SociologyMain Subject Area

Program overview

Main Subject

Sociology

Degree

PhD

Study Level

PHD

Study Mode

On Campus

This programme enables you to study cultural phenomena, practices and texts at an advanced level. You will critically engage with theories and methodologies of transdisciplinary cultural research.

Research topics

The programme supports a range of research topics in visual and urban cultural studies, with a particular interest in:

  • place and memory
  • spatial violence and urban disintegration
  • post-socialist cities of Eastern Europe
  • visual and semiotic landscapes
  • materiality and spatiality of writing
  • book space and architectures of reading
  • photography and visual knowledges
  • image-text-theory
  • experimental publishing
  • curatorial practices and multimodality in representation of research

Research community

Your project will benefit from:

  • the diverse research expertise of staff from the Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture (ESALA)
  • our collaborative exchanges with academic colleagues and research students across the University
  • our broad range of contacts with local and international research networks, cultural and heritage institutions and archives

Assessment and progression

The PhD is a major work of independent research. It will prepare you for a future in academic scholarship or a research career at cultural and heritage institutions or government organisations.

To obtain the degree, you will research and present a thesis of 80,000-100,000 words, followed by a viva voce examination.

You will have two supervisors with whom you will work closely throughout the research period.

Program overview

Main Subject

Sociology

Degree

PhD

Study Level

PHD

Study Mode

On Campus

This programme enables you to study cultural phenomena, practices and texts at an advanced level. You will critically engage with theories and methodologies of transdisciplinary cultural research.

Research topics

The programme supports a range of research topics in visual and urban cultural studies, with a particular interest in:

  • place and memory
  • spatial violence and urban disintegration
  • post-socialist cities of Eastern Europe
  • visual and semiotic landscapes
  • materiality and spatiality of writing
  • book space and architectures of reading
  • photography and visual knowledges
  • image-text-theory
  • experimental publishing
  • curatorial practices and multimodality in representation of research

Research community

Your project will benefit from:

  • the diverse research expertise of staff from the Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture (ESALA)
  • our collaborative exchanges with academic colleagues and research students across the University
  • our broad range of contacts with local and international research networks, cultural and heritage institutions and archives

Assessment and progression

The PhD is a major work of independent research. It will prepare you for a future in academic scholarship or a research career at cultural and heritage institutions or government organisations.

To obtain the degree, you will research and present a thesis of 80,000-100,000 words, followed by a viva voce examination.

You will have two supervisors with whom you will work closely throughout the research period.

Admission Requirements

3 Years
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Sep

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