Our Experts - Media and Cultural Studies
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 Joe DevilleDr 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
Dr Eva Cheuk Yin Li