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Journalism and Communications at University of Gloucestershire - UCAS

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2024 - 20252025 - 2026
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Course summary

Research a topic of your choice or work on an extended creative project. Boost your professional practice and develop high-level skills and knowledge to progress your career. You’ll benefit from an experienced team of research-active scholars and industry practitioners who can offer supervision across a range of topics. We support research in the following areas:

  • ethics in sports journalism
  • live reporting
  • digital media in live sporting events
  • sport communications
Current postgraduate research includes:
  • ‘Post it to make it’: How Women’s Super League Players Frame Themselves on Social Media
  • Musicians of the Movement: A chronological timeline of the influence of high-profile celebrity musicians’ Instagram posts on the Black Lives Matter movement.
Study style You’ll have the opportunity to choose between a research-based or practice-based project. For example, write a thesis of 80,000 words for the research-based PhD (30,000 words for the MA by Research) or, for the practice-based option, create a piece of content or stage a multi-media event and accompany it with a much-shorter written component. As a practice-based student, you’ll have access to our state-of-the-art studios and equipment. Students who haven’t already completed a relevant Master’s degree are normally required to complete two research-methods modules: Philosophy and Approaches to Research, and Methodologies and Methods. These sessions and their related assignments will help you lay the critical foundations for your project. This research contributes to the research priority area Being Human: Past, Present and Future and Creative Practice as Research.

Entry requirements

PhD A master’s degree or equivalent in a subject area relevant to the proposed research topic. PhD by portfolio or publication We’re happy to receive applications for students wanting to do their PhD by portfolio or publication. You’ll need to submit materials from your practice (film, composition, exhibition etc) and books or chapters in anthologies, between 6-12 months after registering. You’ll also need to write a supporting commentary of 6,000-10,000 words, which clarifies your work’s coherence, significance and contribution to knowledge. Applications from a range of diverse backgrounds We actively encourage applications from students from a range of diverse backgrounds who demonstrate appropriate research experience and achievement. IELTS 6.5 (6.0 writing, 5.5 all other components) EU and international students need IELTS 6.5 overall (with a minimum of 6.0 in writing and 5.5 in any other component) or equivalent. Research proposal Your application should include a research proposal up to 1,000 words (excluding references/appendices) which follows the structure outlined in the research proposal guide. Applicants should name a member of staff within their topic area who has agreed to supervise them. Staff contact details can be found on each academic school page.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

Please visit the subject page via www.glos.ac.uk/Research for full fees and costs information.
Journalism and Communications at University of Gloucestershire - UCAS