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