Overview
The Institute for Media and Creative Industries is a multi-disciplinary and international academic community, with commanding knowledge and expertise of the media and related industries and organisations, including the press, film, television, social media, arts, tourism and international development industries.
The Institute includes an internationally renowned research community who share an interest in the infrastructures, outputs, and audiences of the media and the creative industries, as well as in the communication practices, everyday experiences and social change processes influenced by these industries.
The Institute for Media and Creative Industries boasts a talented, international and close-knit research community, with a shared passion for the growth and impact of research on communication and media content, technologies and structures.
By pursuing a postgraduate research programme within the Institute for Media and Creative Industries, individuals will have the opportunity to work with top researchers in the field and gain first-hand experience of real-life problem solving.
If you are interested in undertaking theoretically informed research that aims to impact the policies and practices of the media and communications industry, the government and the third sector then a PhD with the Institute for Media and Creative Industries could be for you.
Our research
The Institute maintains a strong interest in the relationships between media and communication and technological, social and cultural change.
Current research considers the implications of technological transformations and social change, including social, cultural, political and economic relationships and movements, as well as social media and activism in contemporary and historical contexts.
As a whole, the Institute has a particular strength in ethnography, participatory approaches, oral histories, archival research and textual analysis.
The Institute explores the application of these methodological approaches to critical studies of gender, sexuality, identity, race and ethnicity. The Institute is also interested in notions of mobility (people and technologies), place, creativity and labour, and the communication practices and infrastructures that connect and disconnect, enable and constrain.
Our academics cover a range of research interests including legacy and new media and communication structures, regulations and practices. The Institute has experience of conducting empirical research across the globe and is particularly interested in global perspectives on media, communication and social change.
Your future career
As well as providing a route into academia, studying a PhD will give you the expertise and skills required to advance your career in a wide range of professions, vocations and businesses.
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Loughborough University London
3 Lesney Avenue, the Broadcast Centre,
Here East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park,
London,
E20 3BS, England
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