Centre for Cultural and Creative Research (CCCR)

Research degree opportunities

Current PhD Projects

Student representative: Sally Shaw

Claire Dewey’s PhD project is titled Imaging Elsewhere: subjective space in British cinema
(Supervisor: Dr Justin Smith).

Patti Gaal-Holmes is completing a PhD entitled 1970s British experimental film: a decade of diversity
(Supervisor: Dr Garrett Monaghan).

Rachael Keene is working on her PhD Channel 4 television: film programming and policy within the AHRC-supported Channel 4 project
(Supervisor: Professor Paul McDonald).

Laura Mayne is working on her PhD Film Four: a critical survey of the sponsored feature film within the AHRC-supported Channel 4 project
(Supervisor: Dr Justin Smith).

Michael O’Neill was awarded a Faculty Bursary in 2010 to research his project Digital spray, which investigates the impact that the demands of media and cultural convergence, along with the digitisation of culture, have had upon the shape/forms of British television
(Supervisor: Dr Lincoln Geraghty).

Andy Pope is working towards a PhD with the provisional title The revisionist representation of Thatcherism in contemporary British cinema
(Supervisor: Dr Lincoln Geraghty).

Sally Shaw’s PhD project is ‘But where on earth is home’: a social and cultural history of black Britain in 1970s film and television. Her work has been supported by an AHRC Studentship
(Supervisor: Dr Justin Smith).

Gareth Somers is working towards a part-time PhD
(Supervisor: Dominic Symonds).

Paul Spicer is working towards a PhD on The artisan’s camera: the films of Kenzi Mizoguchi
(Supervisor: Dr Justin Smith).

Ryan Taylor is working towards a PhD with the provisional thesis title Invisible whites and murdering masculinities
(Supervisor: Dr Lincoln Geraghty).

Anne Woods recently won a CCCR bursary to pursue her PhD work on BBC Films
(Supervisor: Dr Justin Smith).