I am happy to consider enquiries from potential doctoral students on topics relating to (or combining) any of the following:

• Relationships of media and cities
• Geographies of media, communication and culture
• New perspectives on media production practices (e.g. journalism, creative industries) and their spatial environments
• Social media, encompassing qualitative methods as well as mixed quali-quant approaches
• Spatialities of software, code, data and platforms
• Urban publicness, politics, participation and planning
• The phenomenology of media, technology and communication
• Ethnographic methodologies, especially those informed by theories of social practices, new materialism or (post)phenomenology

Please contact me at s.rodgers@bbk.ac.uk if you would like an informal discussion about your ideas for an MPhil or PhD.

Current PhD students

Sungjae Ko (PhD second supervisor) From ‘development’ to ‘sustainable development’: Exploring urban cultural policy of Seoul, South Korea (full-time)

Emily Rustin (PhD co-supervisor) What positive benefits does YouTube offer to children? (part-time)

Completed PhD students

Dr Hannah Barton (PhD co-supervisor) Proliferate! A techno-social history of the internet meme, From print to platforms

Dr Josephine Coleman (PhD co-supervisor) Talk of the town: Exploring the social site of local content production for community radio

Dr Richard Evans (PhD co-supervisor) Landscape’s emergence through film: Exploring dwelling, ways and objects with Scottish and Swedish non-fiction films

Dr Dario Lolli (PhD co-supervisor) Dispositives of extension: Licensing and franchising Japanese media in the Italian mediascape and beyond

Dr Mathew Morgan (PhD co-supervisor) Mediating art and experience: Art Museums in Las Vegas

Dr Güneş Tavmen (PhD co-supervisor) Open data and smart London governmentality: Thinking through discourse, infrastructure and citizenship