To enquire about supervision for a PhD project here at the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool, please compelte the form below. It will allow us to circulate your proposal among staff in the department to assess interest in your proposed PhD research project and whether we might be able to offer supervision for it.

Your Details

Full Name (First name and family name/surname)

Email address

Your nationality

Your country of residence

Do you hold a BA (or equivalent) degree?
No
Yes

Was English the main tuition language of your BA degree?
No
Yes
Not Applicable

Do you hold an MA/MSc (or equivalent) degree?
No
Yes

Was English the main tuition language of your MA/MSc degree?
No
Yes
Not Applicable

Will you need a visa to study in Liverpool?
Yes
No

How will you fund your studies?
Self-Funded
External funding already in place
External funding not yet in place (ESRC)
External funding not yet in place (AHRC)
External funding not yet in place (Other source)

What is your main motivation for applying to the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool?

Your project

Please provide a clear title of your research project

What is the main academic contribution of your research?

Have you identified one or more members of staff whose research interests align with your chosen topic or methodology? If so, please select them from the list below. If not, leave this section blank.

Details of staff and their research interest can be found at https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/communication-and-media/staff
Please also consult details of our research Groups https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/communication-and-media/research/groups/

Prof. Kay O'Halloran
(Multimodal analysis, multimodal AI approaches, social semiotics, systemic functional approaches, context-based information fusion)

Prof. Ekaterina Balabanova
(media and human rights, public and policy debates on migration and refugees, human rights campaingning, humanitarianism, media, war and conflict, digital wellbeing of marginalised groups)

Dr Jordana Blejmar
(Cultural memory, Latin American culture, photography, art and politics, material cultures, museum studies and curation, critical thinking and decolonial theory)

Dr Jeanette D'Arcy
(digital, media, communications, feminism, performance, adaptation, gothic)

Dr Alyssa Grossman
(Visual anthropology, ethnographic filmmaking, cultural memory, post-communism and Eastern Europe (Romania), museums and archives, everyday life)

Dr Alex Hardy
(e-governance, information security, international studies, geopolitics, digital innovation, disinformation, AI policy)

Dr Emily Harmer
(gender, political communication, elections, online abuse and harassment, political journalism )

Dr Craig Haslop
(Online misogyny, online LGBTQ+ activism, digital masculinities, cult/LGBTQ+ television, digital youth cultures and promotional culture)

Prof. Michelle Henning
(photography history, photography in contemporary media, museum studies)

Dr ALex Herasimenka
(mis-disinformation, authoritarian regimes, social data science, GenAI in politics and communication, political campaigning)

Dr Nessa Johnston
(music, screen studies, cinema)

Dr Hannah Little
(Science communication, public understanding of science and technology, digital governance advocacy, cognitive linguistics)

Dr Brendan Maartens
(War, decline, collapse, propaganda, advertising, PR)

Dr Cat Mahoney
(postfeminism, popular ferminism, media and the past, evolution of television, media convergence)

Dr Christopher McMahon
(Videogames, football, sport media, digital fandoms, neoliberalism, screen media and creative methodologies)

Dr Wallis Motta
(ultural communication, infrastructures, community and alternative media, strategic communications)

Dr Elena Musi
(applied linguistics, communication studies, artificial intelligence, argumentation)

Mr Gary Needham
(queer media, fashion, celebrity studies, film and screen studies)

Dr Tom Nicholls
(Computational methods, news content, British political communication, Internet politics and regulation, AI in the social sciences)

Dr Rudi Palmieri
(strategic communication, argumentation theoru, trust and crisis communication)

Dr Mark Pogson
(sustainability, social networks, theoretical modelling, human experiments and data visualisation)

Dr John Richardson
(critical discourse studies, British fascism, racism, rhetoric and argumentation, and commemorative discourse)

Dr Les Roberts
(Urban cultural studies; culture, space and place; politics and poetics of everyday life; slow media; travel and tourism; landscape and memory; phenomenological approaches; ethnographic approaches)

Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova
(Global and international journalism; children, young people and the media, natioanlism and the media, internet and democracy)

Dr Rosalynd Southern
(Political communication, elections and campaigning, online abuse, online political subcultures, online satire, online feminist activism)

Dr Hannah Spaulding
(Media history / Cultural history of technology, media archaeology, domesticity / home, television, surveillance, gender )

Dr Richard Stupart
(journalism practice, emotion, affect, conflict, witnessing, Africa, humanitarianism, media and war)

Dr Sarah Thomas
(Stardom and celebrity / Screen performance and actor labour / UK and US media industries / AI and immersive screen technologies / UK and US film and TV histories / Close textual analysis of film and television)

Dr Kerry Traynor
(inclusive education, community led development, and non profit strategy)

Dr Yannis Tzioumakis
(Screen industries; Hollywood studio history; American independent cinema; Hollywood runaway productions in Greece; Greek cinema; screen industries and sports)

Dr Lyndon Way
(Popular culture, popular music, digital popular culture, politics, multimodal critical discourse studies, Turkiye)

Dr Antal Wozniak
(Climate change communication, media and war, visual and multimodal framing analysis, political journalism, media and international relations)

Prof. Simeon Yates
(Digital society, digitial inclusion, digital media and society, digital interaction, AI and society, dis-/mis-/mal-information)

Do you have any additional comments or is there any additional information you would like to provide at this stage that can help us assess your proposal?

Please upload a file of your research proposal (only doc, docx and pdf allowed).

Please follow the guidelines on how to write an academic proposal: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/how-to-apply/research-proposal/