4 PhD programmes in Game Design in England, United Kingdom

Digital and Creative Technologies
If you're ready to take your expertise in Digital and Creative Technologies into a postgraduate research degree, University of Portsmouth is the perfect place to realise your ambitions.

Game Technologies
Undertake Game Technologies degree from the University of Gloucestershire while drawing on university expertise. The specialisms include VR, AR and MR, IoTs, mobile technology, gamification and serious games, user experiences and user interface development.

Digital Media Arts
In the vibrant and expanding Digital Media Arts programme of the University of Surrey, we embrace subjects that include: film, animation, visual effects, computational arts, video games, immersive media, digital acting, mediatised theatre, motion graphics, movement interfaces, performance capture, machine vision and interactive cinema.
Games Design
Research in Games Design at Brunel University of London covers a wide spectrum of theoretical and practical areas; the relation between video games and other media; video game aesthetics and politics; immersive technologies and game design, game-based learning, serious games, ludomusicology, inclusive games design, agency in games, games and socio-cultural studies.