Film Studies PhD

Queen's University Belfast

We offer graduate research programmes in both critical and creative practice. These are designed for students who wish to conduct research into historical and/or broader theoretical issues in film, media, and screen cultures, or those who are interested in pursuing their PhD qualification through creative research. We encourage cross-disciplinary projects, especially those involving other areas within the School of Arts, English, and Languages.PhD in Film and Visual Studies (Critical Practice): This route offers students the opportunity to undertake advanced, original research in one of our current areas of specialisation, for example: animation studies British cinema and television censorship and regulation documentary film and sound impact of new screen technologies political film screen industries and world and comparative film studies.You wish to conduct research into historical or broader theoretical issues in film and audiovisual cultures, or wish to undertake practice-led research. You have two pathways to choose from: a Creative Practice route, examining areas such as Documentary Film, Conflict Transformation, New Media and Experimental Aesthetic Practices and a Film and Visual Studies route, looking at cinema history and historiography, sound and film, world and comparative film studies, documentary film, and Irish film and audiovisual culture.

School of Arts, English and Languages