[Commlist] PhD Project - 'Screen Narrative Representations of Serious Illness'

Applications are invited for a full-time, competition-funded PhD 
research studentship at Glasgow Caledonian University within the Glasgow 
School for Business and Society, division of Media and Journalism.

Project description:

This PhD project arises out of discussions concerning the limited range 
of representations of serious illness in film and TV narratives. For 
example, stroke, despite being a leading cause of disability in the 
Western world, has almost no presence in contemporary screen narratives. 
The situation is even worse with media depictions of obstetric and 
gynaecological issues; mainly because of the socio-cultural resistance 
to showing the female body as being less than ‘perfect’.

The aim of this project is to map existing narrative representations of 
illnesses on screen such as stroke, cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS and 
gynaecological/urogynecological conditions as well as to develop a 
series of recommendations, via research involving consultation with 
health professionals, for improving future narrative representations of 
serious illness on screen. Representative texts to be analysed may 
include the following: films Philadelphia (1993) and the recent Bohemian 
Rhapsody (2018) for depictions of AIDS; BBC TV series Bodies (wr.: Jed 
Mercurio, 2004-6) for gynaecological issues; works of screenwriter 
Dennis Potter for psychological explorations of serious illness 
(psoriatic arthropathy: The Singing Detective, BBC TV 1986; cancer: 
Karaoke and Cold Lazarus, BBC TV and Channel 4, 1996); the single TV 
drama Care (BBC TV, 2018) for stroke.

Frederike Van Wijck, Professor of Neurological Rehabilitation within the 
School of Health and Life Sciences at GCU, will act as a consultant on 
the project.

The project directly relates to the following aspects of GCU’s research 
strategy: (i) Inclusive Societies and (ii) Healthy Lives and in 
particular to the theme of ‘Social Justice, Equalities and Communities’ 
focusing on inclusiveness, identity and cultural citizenship with 
reference to socio-cultural analysis of media practice and the 
enhancement of the evidence base for future initiatives and 
interventions in this field; as well as to public health, in terms of 
the management of long-term conditions.


    Supervisor Research Profiles

Director of Studies: Dr. Helena Bassil-Morozow
GCU Research Online URL:
http://researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/helena-bassilmorozow(7249df3f-d70f-4aa6-bbaf-13630d622086).html 
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2nd Supervisor: Prof. John Cook
GCU Research Online URL: 
http://researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/john-cook(837514aa-9398-410e-9770-75c9de052f0a).html 
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This project is available as a 3 years full-time PhD study programme 
with expected start date of 1 October 2019

Candidates are encouraged to contact the research supervisors for the 
project before applying.

Link to the project:

https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/screen-narrative-representations-of-serious-illness/?p108778 



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