96 Full-time PhD programmes in Film Studies

The Ph.D. program at University of British Columbia offers students the opportunity to pursue Cinema and Media Studies through coursework, comprehensive exams, a viva, and a dissertation project.

This Art History and Visual Culture program at York University focuses on the Canadian heritage in the visual arts, including works of art made by Canadians as well as works that have been brought to Canada and remain here on a permanent basis.

The Performance Practice MPhil/PhD programme from The University of Exeter offers you an opportunity to extend and reflect on your creative performance practice. The area of study is entirely dependent upon your expertise, and could include playwriting, acting, directing, physical theatre, dance theatre, music theatre, or music performance.

At University of Aberdeen, the Film and Visual Culture degree plays an important role in the George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture (GWW), which brings together researchers form across our university. 

The Open University UK welcomes applications for PhD study in screen music and sound within the Film Music research cluster.

This Applied Screen Studies - Practice as Research PhD at University of Warwick enables students to incorporate practice into their doctoral study, taking an approach which understands practice as a mode of research, or as the application of research.

At University of Washington, our five-year Ph.D. program in Cinema and Media Studies concentrates on scholarship and research as preparation for teaching at the university or college level in cinema and media studies. 

Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University combines taught modules with research conducted by students under the supervision of staff who have expertise in the topic of study. 

We have outstanding facilities in the field of Text and Image Studies, from the holdings of the library from University of Glasgow, including the Stirling Maxwell Collection, and The Hunterian, to an environment that includes world-leading publications and journals, the hosting of conferences, and exhibition curation.

Students at Film and Media from University of California, Berkeley are encouraged to situate moving images within the larger theoretical and analytical frameworks of a range of other disciplines. 

This Social Anthropology with Visual Media programme at The University of Manchester is intended for those with a degree in social or cultural anthropology who wish to use visual media in the course of pursuing doctoral research. 

The Department of Theatre is a vibrant, active department committed to teaching and training the artist-scholars of the future. In addition to our highly regarded seasons, we regularly invite theatre artists and scholars to join us in making and thinking about performance. The Theatre program is offered by The Ohio State University.

The Cinema Studies programme offered by Stockholm University develops advanced research expertise in moving images and screen cultures across historical and contemporary contexts.

The School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin welcomes applications from potential PhD students. 

Film at Kent is known for its dynamic and inclusive research community. Whether you are interested in theories, histories or aesthetics of film and digital media, we have the academic expertise to support your research. This Film - Practice as Research programme is offered at the University of Kent.

The PhD in Film, Screen and Popular Culture from University of Brighton has a research culture in film and screen studies that has fostered national archives and given critical insight across practice, theory and history.

A successful Film and Television PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg would need to meet the requirements of the university Senate for admittance to the programme.

The PhD in Cinema and Media Studies at York University, incorporating theoretical, historical and critical approaches to visual media, is designed to encompass a variety of methodological frameworks, cultural practices, and historiographic models.

Research in Media and Communications at the University of Brighton critically analyses the role of media institutions, as well as the changing landscape of media industries and cultural production.

The Film Studies programme offered by University of Gothenburg develops advanced research expertise in film, television, and audiovisual culture.