Program Overview

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We belong to the interdisciplinary School of Literature and Languages, which has research-active staff in English literature, creative writing, film studies, translation studies, theoretical and applied linguistics, and literary and cultural studies.

Our film researchers work on a range of specialist topics within the areas of cinema studies and visual studies, including:

issues of gender

the connection between music and the cinema

documentary film and media

genre cinema

cognitive analysis of the moving image

animation studies.

Our researchers have close links to the

Department of Music and Media

at Surrey, which also carries out cutting-edge research. We’re part of

TECHNE

, an

Arts and Humanities Research Council

(AHRC)-funded doctoral training partnership, which provides access to comprehensive academic and professional training programmes, as well as the possibility of funding for your studies. The University of Surrey is 33rd in the UK rankings for overall research quality by the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021. Forty-one per cent of Surrey’s research is rated as world-leading, the highest possible rating, up from 22% when REF last took place in 2014. The University is now also ranked in the top 20 in the UK for the overall quality of research outputs – research papers and other published works. Our diverse mix of subject specialities means we’re a vibrant and imaginative community with plenty of opportunity for intellectual exchange.