Doctor of Philosophy (Cultural Studies)

Film, Media and Cultural Studies (FMCS) at the University of Newcastle offers a wide range of research experience and supervision expertise. FMCS PhD and MPhil candidates undertake research work enabling the development of important transferable personal and professional postgraduate skills including: high-level information sourcing, processing and interpreting, critical analysis, lateral thinking, adaptability, oral and written communication, creativity and initiative, and institutional engagement. You will benefit from our strengths in film theory and history; television studies; gender and sexuality in the media; film and philosophy, popular music and culture; the Internet and social media; audiences and consumption; identity and taste in consumer culture; media structures and institutions; and new media technologies. FMCS is a small but productive discipline of researchers publishing in diverse, often interdisciplinary areas, such as sociology, literature, history, philosophy, and creative and performing arts. Recent research outputs in the discipline include books, book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles, as well as a range of other diverse publications.

i) have satisfied all of the requirements for admission to the degree of Bachelor with Honours Class 1 or Honours Class II, Division 1 or any other degree approved for this purpose by the Head of School; orii) have satisfied all of the requirements for admission to the degree of Bachelor in the University or any other degree approved for this purpose by the Head of School, and have achieved by subsequent work and study a standard recognised by the Head of School as equivalent to at least Honours Class II, Division 1; oriii) in exceptional cases submit evidence of possessing such other academic or professional qualifications and/or experience as may be approved by the Head of School; oriv) in the disciplines of education, medical physics, nursing, social work, social sciences and surgery have completed a minimum standard of professional experience as required by the Head of School; An Australian honours degree with Class 1 or Class 2 division 1. For international students, a four year bachelor degree including a significant research training component attained at a high standard, is commonly considered equivalent to an Australian honours degree; and