PhDs in progress
| Student | Working Title of Thesis | Supervisor |
| An, Chai Rin | The Value of Maintaining the Autonomy of Content Creators in the National Broadcasting Industry : A study on content production processes in the South Korean television industry | Chris Bilton |
| Barrett, Maria | Chips with Everything? Policy and practice of working class theatre experience since the 1960s, as informed by Bourdieu’s concept of Taste | David Wright and Susan Haedicke |
| Borchi, Alice |
Culture and economic crisis: cultural value in Italy from 2008 to the present day |
Eleonora Belfiore |
| Castle, Andrew |
Happy Accidents - chance and success in the Creative Industries |
Chris Bilton |
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Da Silva, Julia Evangelista |
The politics of transformation that sustain applied arts practices in the UK and Brazil. |
Eleonora Belfiore and David Wright |
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Demir, Dace |
The Institutionalisation of the Contemporary Art World in Latvia |
Jonathan Vickery |
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Ferdinand, Gabriella |
Islands for Sale: the Caribbean Creative Industries | Jonathan Vickery and David Wright |
| Naudin, Annette | Cultural Entrepreneurship: An investigation into the nature of entrepreneurship as experienced by cultural and media workers in the UK | Chris Bilton |
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Phitchakan |
Creative Cities and the ASEAN region | Jonathan Vickery |
| Roh, Anna | Christianity, Politics and Cultural Policy: The Case of the Korean Workers Party (KWP) | Oliver Bennett |
| Ruan, Hanzhi | Popular cultural industries and the construction of national identity: The case of China since the Cultural System Reform | Oliver Bennett/ Chris Bilton |
| Song, Junmin | The Theory and Practice of 'Creative Placemaking': postmodern urbanism and after | Jonathan Vickery |
| Walkley, Sarah | The ‘exception culturelle’: is it relevant in a digital age? | Clive Gray and
Eleonora Belfiore |
| Yuk, Joowon | Talking culture, silencing race, enriching the nation: the politics of multiculturalism in South Korea |
Eleonora Belfiore |
| Nick Chen | Cultural Economy and Contemporary China |
Jonathan Vickery |