[Commlist] The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) and its Post-Publishing research strand invite applications to a fully-funded PhD studentship

Coventry University’s Centre for Postdigital Cultures 
<https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures/> 
(CPC) and its Post-Publishing research strand 
<https://postpublishing.postdigitalcultures.org/)> invite applications 
to a fully-funded PhD studentship 
<https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-opportunities/research-students/research-studentships/practicing-post-publishing/> 
that explores alternative publishing practices and formats and discusses 
their potential to cultivate more supportive, diverse, and equitable 
publishing cultures.

*Application deadline: *30 April 2025

*Start date:* September 2025

The studentship is full-time and open to UK and International (including 
EU) graduates. It offers tuition fees for 3 – 3.5 and a stipend to 
support living costs. We are looking for candidates that have a 
theoretical and/or practical foundation in fields related to publishing: 
This includes but is not limited to publishing studies, graphic design, 
artistic publishing, digital humanities, communication studies, 
literature studies, or related disciplines. Working with social justice, 
intersectional feminist, posthumanist, and decolonial approaches is 
especially desirable.

The successful candidate will receive comprehensive research training 
including technical, personal, and professional skills. They  will 
become a member of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures 
<https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures/> 
(CPC) and itsPost-Publishing research strand. 
<https://postpublishing.postdigitalcultures.org/>

Full details on eligibility and how to apply are available here: 
https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-opportunities/research-students/research-studentships/practicing-post-publishing/ 
<https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-opportunities/research-students/research-studentships/practicing-post-publishing/>

*Project Details*

We invite applications for PhD projects that challenge and intervene 
into the prevailing systems of scholarly publishing which prioritise 
research outputs (such as books and papers) as well as competitive, 
individualistic authorship models as the main metrics for academic 
recognition and success. This conventional approach often reduces 
scholarly works to commodities, neglecting the intricate socio-material 
processes of knowledge creation and sharing, which are inherently 
collaborative involving both human actors (authors, editors, reviewers, 
programmers) and non-human ones (digital texts, research cultures, 
technologies).

Doctoral proposals are welcomed that focus on how alternative approaches 
to publishing can foster collaboration and mutual support over 
individual competition, social processes over quantifiable outputs, and 
knowledge equity and diversity in scholarly publishing. This includes 
but is not limited to applications that explore publishing and editorial 
collectives in- and outside the university, publishing practices 
(including joint writing, open peer review, shared annotation, 
alternative licencing, and collective editorship), as well as open, 
processual, and versioned books. The members of the supervisory team 
have expertise in critical, experimental, activist, and academic print 
and digital publishing; radical open access publishing; social justice, 
knowledge equity and diversity in academia; as well as in curatorial 
studies and spatial practices. We welcome applications that focus on 
specific case studies, engage in practice-research, and/or want to 
conduct an experimental publishing projects.

We encourage projects that critically engage with existing literature in 
fields such as publishing and communication studies, digital humanities, 
cultural studies, media studies, and critical university studies as well 
as with past and current publishing initiatives and publications. 
Questions of interest include:

  * How can collaborative and processual approaches to publishing
    displace traditional metrics of scholarly productivity and success?
  * How can these approaches provide alternatives to a scholarly
    communication system currently focused on books and articles as
    objects and commodities?
  * How can these approaches create more supportive, diverse, and
    equitable research and publishing environments?


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