Postgraduate Research with CCE
What we offer
The approach of CCE is collegial and collaborative, and values innovative interdisciplinary thinkers who move between, and through disciplines and themes, stimulating productive relationships and bringing different areas of knowledge together to seek to understand and meet contemporary challenges. Our Postgraduate Research (PGR) Lead is Professor David Bek.
Traditional PhD
We welcome applications from suitably qualified self-funded or sponsored PhD candidates that relate to our current research themes and areas of supervision, and applications can be for part-time and full-time study. We offer student entry points in September, January and May.
Main Areas of Supervision:
- Investigating Creative Economies
- Space, Place and the Creative Economy
- Creative Economies for Health and Wellbeing
- Digital Heritage and Culture
- Creative Economies and Ecological Sustainability
Facilities
We are based in the William Lyons Building alongside the Centre for Dance Research, the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities, and the Centre for Post-digital Cultures. The building has meeting and conference rooms, studio and social spaces, and dedicated PGR rooms with workstations.
Entry Requirements
For details on the formal application process and forms, please visit Making an Application on the University’s website.
Funding Opportunities
Competitive studentships may be available through Doctoral award schemes or collaborative opportunities. There is more information on the University's Funded Studentships page.
Our postgraduates
Andrea Cop
Andrea’s PhD project is investigating the role and development of research in the UK cultural heritage sector, especially museums. In doing so, her research considers the role of policy and governance structures in the sector, what is understood by research and practice research and its purpose to individual organisations. Findings will support consideration of research in the context of cultural heritage planning, resilience and sustainability.
Andrea has an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Aberdeen, and a Masters in European Policy, Law and Management, in which her research concentrated on research and development policy in the least developed countries, and skills development and innovation practice in SMEs respectively. Andrea is a research management professional in a museum, specialising in building mutually beneficial partnerships.
Julyan Levy
Julyan’s PhD is an investigation into the role of plant agency in the emergence of alternative economies. Firstly, exploring the concept of plant agency and its significant in shaping today’s world. Then asking what are the links between plant agency and alternative economies and could a more attentive relationship with plants have a transformative and positive impact on the polycrisis we find ourselves entangled in? Julyan aims to bring focus to the decolonisation of the human-plant relationship - drawing on Western scientific epistemology through a more-than-human, multi species lens alongside indigenous ontologies that recognise indigenous peoples kinship with plants.
Julyan is now beginning to think about his research design which is likely to be the development of ethnographic case studies that demonstrate how being attentive to plant agency can prefigure alternative and diverse economies.
