[ecrea] Media Studies PHD Studentship, Coventry University

Coventry University's School of Art and Design is offering a PhD
opportunity through a bursary for a student to work within our broad
research areas of Media, Culture and Communication Studies and
Disruptive Media (http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/).

See below for more details.

Gary

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Eligibility: UK/EU students only

Award details: Tuition Fees + Bursary

Duration: Full-Time 3 years fixed term

Application deadline: May 25th 2015

Interview dates: June 18th 2015

For informal enquiries contact Professor Gary Hall
<(garyhall /at/ coventry.ac.uk)>.

THE PROJECT
Coventry University is ranked as the UK’s leading modern university in
the Complete University Guide, the Guardian University Guide, the Times
and Sunday Times Good University Guide, and the National Student Survey.

The University’s School of Art and Design conducts world-leading
research and was highly successful in the 2014 REF: acknowledged as
containing world-leading research in all departments (71% of research in
the School was judged internationally excellent and 31% world-leading);
receiving a top ten rating for impact; and significantly increasing its GPA.

Coventry School of Art and Design is now offering an exciting PhD
opportunity through a bursary for a student to work with our professors
and other researchers. In addition to more mainstream approaches,
research projects may be practice-based where appropriate. They will be
pursued within or across our broad research areas of Media, Culture and
Communication studies and Disruptive Media (http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/).

We are particularly interested in the following subjects:

Digital media and culture (e.g. digital humanities, big data, post-digital)

The posthumanities (e.g. posthumanism; performative materialism;
non-representational theory of Barad, Braidotti, Drucker, Haraway)

New modes of media authorship, ownership, publication and dissemination
(e.g. open access, Creative Commons, copyfarleft, internet piracy, p2p,
gift economies)

Emergent/hybrid media forms and cultures (e.g. technologies of sexiness;
cultures of affect; disruptive media technologies)

Distributed, connected, platform, web and cloud-based media and cultural
forms (e.g. sharing economy; open education)

Globalised media, culture and politics (with special reference to Africa)

The politics of media cultures, media economies, institutions and
interfaces.

The successful candidate will be required to undertake some teaching
duties within the School, related to their areas of expertise (training
for this will be available).

SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS
Successful applicants will have:

    a minimum of a 2:1 first degree in a relevant discipline/subject
area with a minimum 60% mark in the Project element or equivalent with
a minimum 60% overall module average.
    in the event of a first degree classification of less than 2:1, a
Masters Degree in a relevant subject area will be considered as an
equivalent. The Masters must have been attained with overall marks at
merit level (60%). In addition, the dissertation or equivalent element
in the Masters must also have been attained with a mark at merit level
(60%).
    the potential to engage in innovative research and to complete the
PhD within a three-year period of study.
    a minimum of English language proficiency (IELTS overall minimum
score of 7.0 with a minimum of 6.5 in each component).
    Knowledge and/or experience in the subject
    a good knowledge of Media, Culture and Communications studies and
Disruptive Media.


ELIGIBILITY & APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Application Procedure:

Application information can be found in our how to apply section
(http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-students/how-to-apply/).
Contact Professor Gary Hall for an initial informal discussion about the
opportunity ((garyhall /at/ coventry.ac.uk)).

Eligibility:
All UK/EU students are eligible to apply that meet the academic
requirements, the eligibility criteria can be found here:
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-students/research-entry-criteria/).

Details are also available on the university website here:
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-students/research-studentships/phd-in-media/

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Gary Hall
Research Professor of Media and Performing Arts
School of Art and Design, Coventry University
Director of Open Humanities Press
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
Website http://www.garyhall.info

NEW BOOK: Open Education: A Study in Disruption
(London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2014) - co-authored by 
Coventry’s Open Media Group and Mute Publishing
http://www.rowmaninternational.com/books/open-education
and available open access at http://bit.ly/1tI3XEV

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