Professor Anne Cronin

I am available to supervise PhD projects in the areas of:

• Advertising
• Media and culture
• Media and cultural theory

Professor Joe Deville

I am looking to supervise students interested in the intersections between some of the following areas: economic sociology, science and technology studies, non-representational/affect theory, consumption/consumer behaviour, data proliferation/informational mobilities, digital methods, debt/credit/money, and open access publishing.

See more about my supervision interests here.

Dr Judith Fathallah (Organisation, Work & Technology)

I am interested in working with students on projects related to

• New media
• Digital cultures
• Fan studies
• Fanfiction
• Music
• Gender
• Discourse theory

Professor Graeme Gilloch

My main areas of research and supervisory interest are:

• Critical theory and the Frankfurt School (especially Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer)
• Contemporary social and cultural theory (especially continental theory)
• Visual culture (especially film and photography)
• Metropolitan and urban culture and theory
• Sociology and literature
• Autobiography, biography, history and memory
• Holocaust studies

Dr Allison Hui

I would be happy to work with students whose projects relate to my areas of interest, including

• Practices (practice theory, media practices, structuration, science and technology studies approaches)
• Transforming or innovating with methodologies (decolonising, creative methods, qualitative methods, engagement-focused methods)
• Consumption (everyday life, materiality, energy demand/sustainability)
• Interdisciplinary projects, especially human geography space/place, migration/mobilities
• Social/organisational leadership and transformation

Dr Patricia Prieto-Blanco

I am interested in working with students on projects related to

• Photography (especially photographic practices)
• Phatic communication
• Affordances
• Performativity and visual (digital) practices/cultures
• Migration
• Regimes of visuality/invisibility
• Visual sociology
• Visual research methods
• Visual/digital media and intimacy/kinship
• Affect theory/affective media practices
• Non-representational media studies/non-media-centric media studies
• I am especially interested in practice-led research projects on any of the above in isolation or combined

Dr Rolien Hoyng

I am interested in supervising within the following areas:

• technology and culture
• critical data studies
• critical infrastructure studies
• cultural theory and cultural studies
• political ecology
• discard studies
• platform studies
• multi-sited, comparative, Inter-Asian research
• digital methods

Dr Sharon Zheng

I welcome potential research/doctoral applicants with the below research interests:

• Fandom/ fan culture studies
• Feminism and motherhood
• Celebrity studies
• Mobile and domestic digital media in China
• British (BBC) /Chinese TV
• Media policy and landscape

Dr Eva Cheuk Yin Li

I am interested in working with students on projects related to:

· Fandom and Participatory Culture

· Transnational Asian popular culture

· Media and culture in Hong Kong and Taiwan

· Queer Sinophone studies with interdisciplinary methods

· Yuri/GL (Girls' Love) media in Asia