Postgraduate Study and Research
The Centre welcomes enquiries about postgraduate study at both Masters and PhD level.
Full details about the MA in Screen Studies can be found here
Prospective doctoral students are encouraged to consult the Centre's staff profiles in order to identify a potential supervisor with a shared research interest.
Facilities
Postgraduate study is supported in the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama through an exclusive postgraduate computer cluster and postgraduate common room.
Postgraduates are also able to borrow DVDs and videos from the Lenagan Library in the basement of the Martin Harris building.
As well as seminars and public lectures in the larger School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, postgraduates in Screen Studies are encouraged to participate in our regular Research Encounters seminar series, which brings together staff and postgraduate students to discuss their recent and current research.
For Screen Practice at Drama, postgraduates are able to book professional digital video cameras, equipment for sound recording, an AVID suite for non-linear editing and a digital recording studio available for audio projects.
The Centre for Screen Studies also collaborates with the Media Centre at the University of Manchester, providing advanced audio-visual facilities and extensive technical support.
Current Doctoral Research
The Centre also has a substantial number of postgraduate researchers who contribute to the Centre's research culture and, in some cases, support the delivery of our teaching:
Shajjad Ahsan (2007-) Bangladesh Cinema: Challenges and Opportunities in a Digital Era
Chris Auld (2005- ) Quatermass and the Canon: –A Critical Reappraisal of the Films
John Ayres (2008- ) British Actors and the Second World War on Film
Anton Bielecki (2010-) The Docu-Fantasia: applying methods of essayistic cinema in theory and practice-based research into the documentary form
Peter Deakin (2007- ) Male Anger and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
Uwe Groschel (2008- ) New Paradigms for Researching Theatre Audiences at the Contact Theatre, Manchester
Matthew Jones (2007- ) The British Reception of 1950s Science Fiction Cinema
Aalia Khalid (2008- ) Audio-Visual Style in Contemporary Science Fiction Television
Benjamin Knowles (2010-) Creating the Past on Film: Re-enactment, Performance and Popular Memory of the Home Front
Ming-Hsun Lin (2006- ) Gender and the Harry Potter Films
Suzy Mangion (2008- ) Sound in Surrealist Cinema
Laura Wilson (2008- ) Physical Spectatorship and Contemporary Cinema
Recent doctoral researchers have included:
Monia Acciari (Aesthetics of Emotion in the Popular Cinemas of India and Italy)
Mark Astley (Contemporary Multimedia and the Human Body in Extremis)
Laura Crossley (National Identity in Contemporary Screen Fantasy)
Emanuele D'Onofrio (Italian Film Music and National Identity)
Mariano Paz (Ideology and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema)
How to Apply for Postgraduate Study in Screen
There are several ways you can apply for postgraduate study at the University of Manchester.
- Apply online
- Download a copy of the application form
- Request a printed version of the application form
For further information about Postgraduate Studies, follow this link.