University of Salford Manchester

School of Arts & Media

Research in the School of Arts and Media has an excellent record of high social and cultural impact and is exploring the relationships between research in its disciplines with teaching and learning and how this influences the curriculum. The School is building on the strong links with the creative economy and its distinctive provision with a renewed commitment to high quality specialist and interdisciplinary programmes, which are closely informed by research and are increasingly international.

Our dynamic research approach generates a broad range of projects from the analysis of media ecologies and socially responsible design to music, public arts engagement and notions of identity in media art and performance, through to the practice of programme making for BBC Radio 4, compositions for the Mercury award-winning band Elbow, and digitally mediated performances and art works around the world. The School is also continually exploring closer relationships between fine art, design and media disciplines, which have traditionally adopted different ideological positions, to inform a distinctive teaching and research culture.

The School is uniquely placed to develop research-focused and research-led study opportunities within the context and environment of the new University campus building at MediaCityUK, which offers significant scope for postgraduate growth at the interface of industry, media, flexible learning, and high quality research. MediaCityUK also provides the School with a context, profile, and ‘footprint’ to generate significant collaborations with major academic and industrial research partners. This cross-school, collaborative approach allows us to tackle research problems in conjunction with external partners and move beyond assumed limits, giving rich, rewarding and innovative results.

Research in the School of Arts and Media is structured and organised via four Research Centres:

Communication, Cultural & Media Studies Research Centre (CCM)
Media, Art & Design Research and Engagement (MADRE)
Salford Music Research Centre
Performance Research Centre

Eligible candidates

UK/EU candidates only
Candidates should have a first or upper second class honours degree and ideally a Masters degree in a subject relevant to their proposed research. Candidates who wish to undertake practice-based research should also possess an appropriate portfolio of work.