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Postgraduate Study
We offer six, one year, full-time, campus-based master’s degree programmes and five, two year, part-time distance learning master’s programmes for students who seek a more flexible learning regime.
How do you want to learn?
Full-time Campus Based Master’s Degrees
MA Globalization and Communications
MSc Media and Communication Research
Part-time Master’s Degrees by Distance Learning
MA New Media Governance and Democracy
MA Communications, Media and Public Relations
MA Communications, Media and Advertising
Research Degrees
Where have our students gone for work?
Many of our Masters' level students go onto research degrees but graduates have also returned to careers in which having the MA or MSc degree has helped their advancement to higher positions. Graduates have also entered teaching, working in finance industries, telecommunications, media production and the military in the wide variety of countries from which they originate.
PhD graduates have often entered academia in universities across the world although some work as researchers for professional companies.
Postgraduate News
The Department of Media and Communication is pleased to offer two new scholarships for October 2012 entry.
The first is a funded studentship researching the Repeat Victimisation of Online Mass-Marketing Fraud, for October 2012 entry to its Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programme. The studentship will pay full-time University UK/EU tuition fees for three years and include an annual maintenance grant at standard Research Council rates. The successful applicant will be supervised by Professor Monica Whitty and will be working on a project that stems from Professor Whitty's research on the psychology of online mass-marketing fraud. The studentship is offered in partnership with the Serious Organised Crime Agency and the National Crime Agency. Further details and application information are available here.
In addition, applications are sought for a Graduate Research Assistantship for full-time study leading to a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) under the joint supervision of Dr Philip Cook (Department of Politics and International Relations) and Professor Peter Lunt (Department of Media and Communication). This Graduate Research Assistantship will offer the successful applicant a valuable opportunity to gain experience of contributing to a collaborative inter-disciplinary research project whilst pursuing their doctoral research. This fixed-term four year post will pay full-time University UK/EU tuition fees and include an annual tax-free stipend (currently £13,590). The successful applicant will be expected to commence their studies in October 2012. Further details and application information are available here.
Additional postgraduate news
MA students Ivan Atmanagara and Marius Lifvergren (New Media and Society) reported on the Google Big Tent event in Spring 2011. Google invited a range of media scholars, business people, journalists, NGO representatives, politicians and digital enthusiasts to discuss issues relating to freedom of expression in online spaces and the role of new media in global activism at its inaugural Big Tent UK, held on the 18th May.
