Digital Media Newcastle University

Award	Attendance	Study	Duration	Start	Domestic fees	International fees
PhD	On-Campus	Full-time, Part-time	36 - 72 months	find out	find out	find out

Course fee notes

See Fees and Funding tab in the Programme information in our online Prospectus. https://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/courses/degrees/digital-media-phd/?utm_source=referral-study-link&utm_medium=course-listing&utm_content=digital-media-phd&utm_campaign=PG3PL-study-link#fees&funding

Course overview

The Digital Media PhD is part of the Fine Art programme of study. We offer PhD supervision in two main areas of digital media.

Digital arts practice is led by Dr Tom Schofield. It includes topics such as:

emerging technologies and experimental practice
art and science practice
transdisciplinary practice
interactivity and human-computer interaction in arts practice
data visualisation and creative practice
affective computing and creative practice
applied philosophy
philosophy of cognition
contemporary art and media theory
new production environments and living labs
open source culture and creativity
crowdsourcing and creativity.

Digital media in museum, gallery and heritage settings is led by Dr Areti Galani. It includes topics such as:

online museum, gallery and heritage experiences
social software and its implications for the cultural sector
design and use of mobile, personal and ubiquitous technologies in cultural settings
study and understanding of social museum experiences
theory and practice of visitor studies
ethnographic and ethnomethodological approaches in the study of museum experiences.

Facilities

You have access to top quality facilities at the University's Culture Lab. Culture Lab’s facilities include a stock of film cameras and editing suites, as well as motion-capture, animation and sound-mixing technology.