We offer PhD supervision in two main areas of digital media.

Digital arts practice, led by Professor John Bowers, includes topics such as:

  • emerging technologies and experimental practice
  • art and science practice
  • transdisciplinary practice
  • interactivity and human-computer interaction in arts practice
  • data visualisation and creative practice
  • affective computing and creative practice
  • applied philosophy
  • philosophy of cognition
  • contemporary art and media theory
  • new production environments and living labs
  • open source culture and creativity
  • crowdsourcing and creativity

Digital media in museum, gallery and heritage settings, led by Dr Areti Galani, includes topics such as:

  • online museum, gallery and heritage experiences
  • social software and its implications for the cultural sector
  • design and use of mobile, personal and ubiquitous technologies in cultural settings
  • study and understanding of social museum experiences
  • theory and practice of visitor studies
  • ethnographic and ethnomethodological approaches in the study of museum experiences