Film Newcastle University

Overview

At Film MPhil, PhD programme from Newcastle University we're keen to work with postgraduates in the major research projects listed below, or in the more general areas related to them. We supervise projects that span academic schools and sub-disciplines, ensuring the best fit between your interests and the expertise of our staff.

Key facts:

If you’re interested in undertaking a PhD, be it practice-led, practice-based, or theoretical, in the following areas, please get in touch in the first instance with the admissions tutor Dr Geetha Jayaraman.

• most areas of documentary/non-fiction film practice (see supervisor profiles for specialisms)
• creative documentary practices in the UK, India, South Asia, Africa 
• intersections between the documentary and sociological, anthropological, cultural studies 
• sports documentaries
• feminist film practice
• social linguistics, translation and documentary practice
• documentary theory and practice in the USSR / Russia
• theorising documentary as a critical and creative practice
• history of the documentary and of documentary movements
• studies of independent film production and exhibition 
• World cinema 
• Indian cinema
• film festival studies