[ecrea] PhD in Communication at Concordia

Now in its 31st year of existence, Concordia's PhD in Communication 
program is one of the first programs of its kind in Canada. Since 2017, 
we have also seen many changes, as our PhD program achieved 
administrative independence and as the ranks of our faculty have been 
renewed, opening up new areas of research and teaching expertise. We are 
very excited about our future and we are looking for ambitious, 
imaginative, and motivated PhD students to join us!

Concordia’s PhD in Communication program supports a broad range of 
research, including (but not limited to) work in cultural studies, 
feminist media studies, media history and media archaeology, games 
studies, critical race studies, social and mobile media, sound studies, 
creative industries, media policy, popular culture, visual culture, 
religion and media, media and the environment, media and ageing, and 
critical disabilities studies. Our program provides advanced training in 
media and cultural analysis with a special emphasis on publicly and 
socially engaged practice. Students in our program have produced 
award-winning research in the form of "traditional" scholarly theses as 
well as cutting-edge projects in research-creation (such as documentary 
films, interactive web-based projects, and multi-media installations), 
an area in which Concordia has been an international leader for many 
years. We are a relatively small PhD program, allowing us to provide 
close mentoring to our students. Graduates of our program have launched 
careers, both inside and outside academia, across Canada and around the 
world.

Concordia’s PhD students can also to take advantage of the fertile 
research and media arts environment that makes Montreal a leading 
international destination for advanced study and practice in the fields 
of communication, media, and cultural studies — not to mention our 
city’s distinction as the world’s top ranked city for student 
life (http://www.concordia.ca/cunews/main/stories/2017/02/15/qs-rankings-montreal-best-student-city-in-the-world.html). 
  Students in our PhD program also benefit from opportunities to teach 
undergraduate courses within our department, to improve their French, 
and to take advantage of other forms of support and mentoring our 
university provides at the PhD level (including a very 
robust professional development program 
(https://www.concordia.ca/students/gradproskills.html) and funding to 
support conference and research-related travel). Our research-intensive 
department also provides opportunities for PhD students to receive 
training and employment in the form of research assistantships working 
on a wide range of projects housed within the department as well as in 
the many research units linked to various members of our department, 
including the Mobile Media Lab (http://www.mobilities.ca/), the Feminist 
Media Studio (http://feministmediastudio.ca/), the Media History 
Research Centre (https://www.mediahistoryresearch.com/), the Milieux 
Institute for Arts, Culture & Technology, the Technology-Art-Games (TAG) 
Centre, the Intersectionality Research Hub, the Material Religion 
Initiative, the Speculative Life Cluster, the Critical Disabilities 
Studies Working Group, the Centre for Sensory Studies, and the Montreal 
Signs Project.

Please visit our program website 
(http://www.concordia.ca/artsci/coms/programs/communication-studies-phd/coms-phd.html) for 
further details about Concordia's PhD in Communication program 
(including information about degree requirements, admission 
requirements, application instructions, etc). Profiles of our full-time 
faculty can be found here 
(http://www.concordia.ca/artsci/coms/about/faculty.html) Profiles of 
many of our current PhD students can be found here. 
(http://www.concordia.ca/artsci/coms/research/phd-bios.html).

Interested students are encouraged to visit the websites above, and -- 
if they have further questions -- are welcome to contact me directly, or 
Mr. Mircea Mandache, the Graduate Program Administrator 
((mircea.mandache /at/ concordia.ca) <mailto:(mircea.mandache /at/ concordia.ca)>).

Our application deadline is *1 February 2019*.




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