Media and Cultural Studies - PhD

... United Kingdom
... Birmingham City University

Course Overview

Our Media and Cultural Studies Ph.D. research degree will help you achieve a career in media research or academia. The Ph.D. enables research into a broad range of interests within the fields of media, communication, and cultural studies. Your research will be delivered over three years (full-time) or four years (part-time or distance learning). We support both traditional Ph.D. research presented through an academic thesis and Ph.D. research through practice.

General Eligibility

Part Time Work Details

Language Requirement

Programme Information
...
Course Category

Media and Journalism


...
Campus Name

City Centre


...
Course Level

Postgraduate


...
Duration

1


...
Available Intake

September


...
IELTS Score

0.0


...
Tuition Fees Range

£4,500, £13,200,


Subject Recommendations for You
MSc Evolutionary Genetics
University of Edinburgh
Campus

Edinburgh, Scotland

Entry Score

7.0

Course Level

Postgraduate

Total Course Fee

£ 33300

Campus

Edgbaston (Main), Selly Oak

Entry Score

6.5

Course Level

Postgraduate

Total Course Fee

£ Home full-time: £25,740, International full-time: £29,606

MSc Criminal Justice
University of Portsmouth ( Navitas )
Campus

Portsmouth, UK

Entry Score

5.5

Course Level

Postgraduate

Total Course Fee

£ £9,200, £15,500

Discover Your Next Read
...
Why you will go UK for better study ? Learn more from this blog...
...
Why you will go UK for better study ? Learn more from this blog...
Request history8.1.11PHP Version992msRequest Duration2MBMemory UsageGET course-details/{id?}Route
  • warninglog[15:07:13] LOG.warning: Calling static trait method App\Traits\Service::get_intake_with_next_year is...
  • Booting (19.22ms)time
  • Application (973ms)time
  • 1 x Application (98.06%)
    973ms
    1 x Booting (1.94%)
    19.22ms
    4 templates were rendered
    • course-detailscourse-details.blade.php#?blade
    • ajax.homejshomejs.blade.php#?blade
    • layouts.appapp.blade.php#?blade
    • ajax.menusearchjsmenusearchjs.blade.php#?blade
    uri
    GET course-details/{id?}
    middleware
    web
    controller
    App\Http\Controllers\CourseController@details
    namespace
    prefix
    where
    file
    app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:130-145
    13 statements were executed, 3 of which were duplicates, 10 unique. Show only duplicated944ms
    • Connection Establishedstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Backtrace
      • 15. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:131
      • 16. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 17. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 18. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 19. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select * from `courses` where `id` = '6255' limit 1
      6.62msstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Bindings
      • 0: 6255
      Backtrace
      • 16. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:131
      • 17. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 18. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 19. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 20. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select * from `institutes` where `institutes`.`id` in ('54')
      1.07msstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Bindings
      • 0: 54
      Backtrace
      • 21. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:131
      • 22. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 23. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select * from `represent_countries` where `represent_countries`.`id` in ('1')
      1.23msstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Bindings
      • 0: 1
      Backtrace
      • 26. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:131
      • 27. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 28. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 29. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 30. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select * from `countries` where `countries`.`id` in ('235')
      720μsstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Bindings
      • 0: 235
      Backtrace
      • 31. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:131
      • 32. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 33. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 34. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 35. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select `id`, `course_level_name` from `course_levels` where `course_levels`.`id` in ('2')
      3.26msstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Bindings
      • 0: 2
      Backtrace
      • 21. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:131
      • 22. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 23. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select * from `categories` where `categories`.`id` in ('2') order by `category_name` asc
      2.12msstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Bindings
      • 0: 2
      Backtrace
      • 21. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:131
      • 22. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 23. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select * from `courses` where `course_level_id` = '2' order by RAND() limit 3
      923msstaging_liveCourseController.php#138
      Bindings
      • 0: 2
      Backtrace
      • 15. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:138
      • 16. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 17. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 18. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 19. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select * from `institutes` where `institutes`.`id` = '77' limit 1
      1.16msstaging_livecourse-details.blade.php#258
      Bindings
      • 0: 77
      Backtrace
      • 22. view::course-details:258
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:124
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58
      • 26. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/CompilerEngine.php:72
      • 27. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/View.php:207
    • select `id`, `course_level_name` from `course_levels` where `course_levels`.`id` = '2' limit 1
      780μsstaging_livecourse-details.blade.php#274
      Bindings
      • 0: 2
      Backtrace
      • 22. view::course-details:274
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:124
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58
      • 26. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/CompilerEngine.php:72
      • 27. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/View.php:207
    • select * from `institutes` where `institutes`.`id` = '53' limit 1
      960μsstaging_livecourse-details.blade.php#258
      Bindings
      • 0: 53
      Backtrace
      • 22. view::course-details:258
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:124
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58
      • 26. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/CompilerEngine.php:72
      • 27. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/View.php:207
    • select `id`, `course_level_name` from `course_levels` where `course_levels`.`id` = '2' limit 1
      820μsstaging_livecourse-details.blade.php#274
      Bindings
      • 0: 2
      Backtrace
      • 22. view::course-details:274
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:124
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58
      • 26. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/CompilerEngine.php:72
      • 27. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/View.php:207
    • select * from `institutes` where `institutes`.`id` = '133' limit 1
      1.04msstaging_livecourse-details.blade.php#258
      Bindings
      • 0: 133
      Backtrace
      • 22. view::course-details:258
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:124
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58
      • 26. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/CompilerEngine.php:72
      • 27. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/View.php:207
    • select `id`, `course_level_name` from `course_levels` where `course_levels`.`id` = '2' limit 1
      500μsstaging_livecourse-details.blade.php#274
      Bindings
      • 0: 2
      Backtrace
      • 22. view::course-details:274
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:124
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58
      • 26. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/CompilerEngine.php:72
      • 27. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/View.php:207
    App\Models\Course
    4Course.php#?
    App\Models\Institute
    4Institute.php#?
    App\Models\CourseLevel
    4CourseLevel.php#?
    App\Models\RepresentCountry
    1RepresentCountry.php#?
    App\Models\Country
    1Country.php#?
    App\Models\Category
    1Category.php#?
        _token
        r2B9dvszdg4nzWPBjcOT4fhgH7xYhJvWEuF4hf77
        current_url
        https://staging.bheuni.io/course-details/6255
        _previous
        array:1 [ "url" => "https://staging.bheuni.io/course-details/6255" ]
        _flash
        array:2 [ "old" => [] "new" => [] ]
        PHPDEBUGBAR_STACK_DATA
        []
        path_info
        /course-details/6255
        status_code
        200
        
        status_text
        OK
        format
        html
        content_type
        text/html; charset=UTF-8
        request_query
        []
        
        request_request
        []
        
        request_headers
        0 of 0
        array:15 [ "priority" => array:1 [ 0 => "u=0, i" ] "accept-encoding" => array:1 [ 0 => "gzip, deflate, br, zstd" ] "sec-fetch-dest" => array:1 [ 0 => "document" ] "sec-fetch-user" => array:1 [ 0 => "?1" ] "sec-fetch-mode" => array:1 [ 0 => "navigate" ] "sec-fetch-site" => array:1 [ 0 => "none" ] "accept" => array:1 [ 0 => "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.7" ] "user-agent" => array:1 [ 0 => "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)" ] "upgrade-insecure-requests" => array:1 [ 0 => "1" ] "sec-ch-ua-platform" => array:1 [ 0 => ""Windows"" ] "sec-ch-ua-mobile" => array:1 [ 0 => "?0" ] "sec-ch-ua" => array:1 [ 0 => ""Chromium";v="130", "HeadlessChrome";v="130", "Not?A_Brand";v="99"" ] "cache-control" => array:1 [ 0 => "no-cache" ] "pragma" => array:1 [ 0 => "no-cache" ] "host" => array:1 [ 0 => "staging.bheuni.io" ] ]
        request_cookies
        []
        
        response_headers
        0 of 0
        array:5 [ "content-type" => array:1 [ 0 => "text/html; charset=UTF-8" ] "cache-control" => array:1 [ 0 => "no-cache, private" ] "date" => array:1 [ 0 => "Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:07:13 GMT" ] "set-cookie" => array:2 [ 0 => "XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6IkVkU2hWZ0NCdEpLTU0yek82TU9sN2c9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiSnNYUXUzeGFpay91Qit4WmFtcUFKZFpXdXZkZXFGbFhmQ3FDZXJMU2FOKzk3T3MwTmFzTHNKYUZKcXlDeGs2OTBPTXV0T204YnB3K3pScmswbTJWeExJeE9vMUtNY0c4ZEczUTJwcm9lMklxaC8xUTVESFpIRHA1bVIzVWt4Si8iLCJtYWMiOiJkZDYzZGI2YTM3YjBjYzBlMGM4NTgyNjRiZTE5MzUxYmViNTJjYzczZDA3OTRiMjk5N2IwMWVjZTAwOTM4Zjc4IiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Wed, 16 Jul 2025 11:07:13 GMT; Max-Age=72000; path=/; domain=.bheuni.io; secureXSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6IkVkU2hWZ0NCdEpLTU0yek82TU9sN2c9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiSnNYUXUzeGFpay91Qit4WmFtcUFKZFpXdXZkZXFGbFhmQ3FDZXJMU2FOKzk3T3MwTmFzTHNKYUZKcXlDeGs2OTBPTXV0T" 1 => "bhe_uni_session=eyJpdiI6Ikp3eW9xcVFDQU9wdDB1RmZPbnVFSXc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiOXZqOVEvdCtQTlJNYnh6ZG9tZFQ2aDJ2ZDZyQ3Y1akhJUjZ6dWU3ZlVPcEx6a09aOTNxQm1wNi9UWFNqS2lpM2sybmcvV25UVUhmN0lsZExoaURzMjgxL0MrWjNSSEtsd0VKakpXbnJnY0cxamg1TTFxVjVqWDgzRW5qOG9adm8iLCJtYWMiOiI5OTQxNWFmZWQ3OGExZmE1ZmZjYWUzYWU4MDNiNzI3ZGQwNWQ5NjMxZjhiOWQ2ODZiYWUyNzFmYjI4ZjVjZDlhIiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Wed, 16 Jul 2025 11:07:13 GMT; Max-Age=72000; path=/; domain=.bheuni.io; secure; httponlybhe_uni_session=eyJpdiI6Ikp3eW9xcVFDQU9wdDB1RmZPbnVFSXc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiOXZqOVEvdCtQTlJNYnh6ZG9tZFQ2aDJ2ZDZyQ3Y1akhJUjZ6dWU3ZlVPcEx6a09aOTNxQm1wNi9UWFNqS2lpM2sy" ] "Set-Cookie" => array:2 [ 0 => "XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6IkVkU2hWZ0NCdEpLTU0yek82TU9sN2c9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiSnNYUXUzeGFpay91Qit4WmFtcUFKZFpXdXZkZXFGbFhmQ3FDZXJMU2FOKzk3T3MwTmFzTHNKYUZKcXlDeGs2OTBPTXV0T204YnB3K3pScmswbTJWeExJeE9vMUtNY0c4ZEczUTJwcm9lMklxaC8xUTVESFpIRHA1bVIzVWt4Si8iLCJtYWMiOiJkZDYzZGI2YTM3YjBjYzBlMGM4NTgyNjRiZTE5MzUxYmViNTJjYzczZDA3OTRiMjk5N2IwMWVjZTAwOTM4Zjc4IiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Wed, 16-Jul-2025 11:07:13 GMT; domain=.bheuni.io; path=/; secureXSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6IkVkU2hWZ0NCdEpLTU0yek82TU9sN2c9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiSnNYUXUzeGFpay91Qit4WmFtcUFKZFpXdXZkZXFGbFhmQ3FDZXJMU2FOKzk3T3MwTmFzTHNKYUZKcXlDeGs2OTBPTXV0T" 1 => "bhe_uni_session=eyJpdiI6Ikp3eW9xcVFDQU9wdDB1RmZPbnVFSXc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiOXZqOVEvdCtQTlJNYnh6ZG9tZFQ2aDJ2ZDZyQ3Y1akhJUjZ6dWU3ZlVPcEx6a09aOTNxQm1wNi9UWFNqS2lpM2sybmcvV25UVUhmN0lsZExoaURzMjgxL0MrWjNSSEtsd0VKakpXbnJnY0cxamg1TTFxVjVqWDgzRW5qOG9adm8iLCJtYWMiOiI5OTQxNWFmZWQ3OGExZmE1ZmZjYWUzYWU4MDNiNzI3ZGQwNWQ5NjMxZjhiOWQ2ODZiYWUyNzFmYjI4ZjVjZDlhIiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Wed, 16-Jul-2025 11:07:13 GMT; domain=.bheuni.io; path=/; secure; httponlybhe_uni_session=eyJpdiI6Ikp3eW9xcVFDQU9wdDB1RmZPbnVFSXc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiOXZqOVEvdCtQTlJNYnh6ZG9tZFQ2aDJ2ZDZyQ3Y1akhJUjZ6dWU3ZlVPcEx6a09aOTNxQm1wNi9UWFNqS2lpM2sy" ] ]
        session_attributes
        0 of 0
        array:5 [ "_token" => "r2B9dvszdg4nzWPBjcOT4fhgH7xYhJvWEuF4hf77" "current_url" => "https://staging.bheuni.io/course-details/6255" "_previous" => array:1 [ "url" => "https://staging.bheuni.io/course-details/6255" ] "_flash" => array:2 [ "old" => [] "new" => [] ] "PHPDEBUGBAR_STACK_DATA" => [] ]
        ClearShow all
        Date ↕MethodURLData
        #12025-07-15 15:07:13GET/course-details/6255141315