PhD Digital Media Arts

On our vibrant and expanding Digital Media Arts PhD programme, we embrace subjects that include: Film, animation, Visual effects, computational arts, Video games, Immersive media, Digital acting, Mediatised theatre, Motion graphics, Movement interfaces, Performance capture, Machine vision, Interactive cinema. This provides you with an opportunity to undertake profound and meaningful practice-based and theoretical postgraduate research in these fields, where creativity and technology collide. Your skills and talents as a media practitioner, alongside intellectual curiosity, collaborative spirit, technical proficiency and sense of adventure, all come into play as you make use of the state-of-the-art facilities, great workspaces and dedicated multi-disciplinary supervision. You will also benefit from our extensive connections to the creative industries through our wide range of partners within film production companies, animation houses, VFX facilities and studios.

On campus, we share a building and collaborate on a daily basis with the prestigious Guildford School of Acting. We also work closely with colleagues from Surrey's Engineering programmes and have found touchpoints in nearly every other department Surrey has to offer. In addition to this, we are actively building relationships with other institutions close at hand and around the world: collaboration and sharing is the only way forward for our precious arts, culture and technology communities.

Applicants are expected to hold a minimum of upper second-class (2:1) UK degree and usually an MA in a relevant arts subject or appropriate professional experience. Candidates submitting proposals that include practice-based research will be required to provide evidence of appropriate experience and expertise. IELTS Academic: 6.5 or above (or equivalent) with 6.0 in each individual category. TOEFL (ibt) - 88 overall with 18 in Reading, 19 in Listening, 19 in Speaking and 23 in Writing.