Our School has a thriving and active postgraduate community with over 40 students currently working towards their PhD. If you have a research proposal that you would like to discuss, or any questions about postgraduate research in our School, please contact Melanie Williams, our Postgraduate Research Director.

Staff research interests

If you do your PhD in our School, you’ll be supervised by one or more members of our internationally renowned research staff. We are active in wide and varied fields of research, from film and television history to gender and post-feminism, national cinema studies (particularly Britain and Japan), and audience and reception studies. The School’s research output was described as producing work of ‘international excellence’, that is ‘world leading’ in the most recent UK government Research Assessment Exercise.

Student research

Our current students are producing equally compelling research, developing work on topics such as the Pixar brand image, online fan communities, fashion in television, Indian animation, the cross-genre appeals of role-playing games, the Chinese reception of Avatar, audiences and film trailers, and American teen pics.

Study days and research skills training

As a postgraduate student, you’ll also be part of our regular research programme: you’ll see guest lectures on the latest research in the field; you might be involved in organising one of our regular study days or symposia. (Recent events have covered youth media, new approaches to British cinema and television, female celebrity, and Shane Meadows.) You’ll take part in our weekly postgraduate training seminars, and you’ll have the chance to hone your research skills through sessions organised through the Faculty of Arts and Humanities Graduate School.

Enquiries

Please contact Melanie Williams if you have any queries about studying here.

For admissions enquiries and general information contact the PGR Office: Tel.: +44 (0)1603 591709; pgr.enquiries.admiss@uea.ac.uk .