Culture, Media & Creative Industries at King's carries out world-leading research across the field of culture, media and the analysis of particular creative industries. We are pioneers in shaping how culture and creativity are understood, practiced, and valued. Our work informs public policy, drives industry innovation, and amplifies cultural voices across the world. We pride ourselves in research rigour and making a difference to the world through all exceptional research. CMCI is also developing, in concert with Digital Humanities, research into digital cultures, particularly into social networks, digital identities and digital activism. Our approach is international in perspective, interdisciplinary in nature, and is characterised by a productive engagement of the theoretical, historical and empirical. We also offer regional expertise in East Asian, South Asian, Middle Eastern, and Latin American media, culture and creative industries.

The PhD in Culture, Media & Creative Industries is a programme for those seeking an academic career or who wish to become high-calibre professionals in the cultural, media or creative sectors.

• Latest Research Excellence Framework rankings: CMCI was ranked third in the UK for research power. Our Faculty of Arts & Humanities is one of the most prestigious of its kind, ranked sixth in Europe (QS World University Rankings, 2025).
• Current staff: 51
• Current PhDs: 49

• Our areas of doctoral supervision include (but are not limited to):

  
  Cultural and creative Industries
  Cultural policy
  Cultural memory
  Cultural management
  Cultural entrepreneurship
  Museum, Heritage and Culture
  Culture, care and social justice
  Subcultures
  Material culture studies
  Gender, race and culture
  Culture and translation
  Climate crisis and culture
  Identity politics in the Global South
  Cultural economics
  Cultural work and labour
  Art and nation building
  Inequalities in the art world
  Arts and social change
  Participatory, community-engaged arts
  Film and TV industry
  Music industry
  Media Production
  Media convergence
  Audience studies
  Media and policy
  Media and activism
  Gender and media
  Race and media
  Production geopolitics
  Networked subcultures
  Queer studies and media
  Game studies
  Digital feminism
  Digital life-writing
  Immersive technologies
  Cultural sector and AI
  Media and AI
  Digitalisation in creative sectors
  Creative economy and development
  Creative education and inclusion
  Creative resistance and activism
  Sustainability and the creative economy
  Creative work and creative labour
  Fashion
  Performance studies
  Music industry

  Learn more about the Department’s research activities on our Research and Expertise page.