Doctoral Research Group Knowledge Cultures / Digital Media
Digital Media constitute a key research area at Leuphana. Graduate students are invited to collaborate with scholars and find stipends and fellowships to support their dissertation projects at the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM), at the Centre for Digital Cultures and at the Institute for Advanced Study on Media Cultures of Computer Simulation (MECS), as well as in other affiliated funded research projects in the network.
The collegium is dedicated to build a community of highly distinguished scholars in its engagement with the international scientific and research community. The academic life at ICAM and its dissertation collegium hosts a variety of congresses, conferences, workshops, and presentations with scholars recognised as leading experts in their fields, thus offering its students with opportunities of connecting with global networks of research and scholarly production.
Areas of Research
The research areas comprise of:
- history, archeology and epistemology,
- forms and strategies of aesthetic production,
- audio media cultures,
- digital research environments in art history and image studies,
- media and knowledge ecologies,
- media cultures of computer simulation,
- gamification and ludology,
- globalization,
- cyber-culture and gender studies,
- Internet and society.
The collegium has a special cooperation with the University of Lübeck* to research and analyse issues of
- history and ethics of science, esp. in medicine.
*The specially funded modules for this doctoral programme are hosted a the University of Lübeck.
Doctoral Degree
The respective faculty confers the doctoral degree Dr. phil.
Doctoral Supervisors
- Prof. Dr. Erich Hörl
- Prof. Dr. Jan Müggenburg
- Prof. Dr. Claus Pias
- Prof. Dr. Christina Wessely
Doctoral Courses
As a doctoral candidate at Leuphana, you not only write your dissertation, but also participate in the interdisciplinary doctoral courses to the extent of 30 credit points, which include (inter)disciplinary colloquia (Research Forum I and Research Forum II) and furthermore comprises four interdisciplinary modules on research ethics, research methods, scientific practice and current perspectives on science. Please find more information about Leuphana's doctoral courses here.
Admission
If you wish to pursue your doctorate at Leuphana, you must be enrolled as doctoral student. Information about admission to the doctorate at Leuphana and the application procedure can be found here.
Leuphana Graduate School offers advice and coaching to academics in the qualification phase. The Graduate School's advisor will be happy to support you in questions of decision-making, challenges in the course of your doctorate, and career planning and development. You can find more information about the counselling and coaching services here.
Spokesperson
- Prof. Dr. Erich Hörl
Experiences from the Research Group
Leuphana University Lüneburg has awarded the 2024 Leuphana Dissertation Prize to Randi Heinrichs for her dissertation titled “Anonymity Reprogrammed: How the Digital Economy Is Changing Our Politics of (Non)Identification Through Imaginaries of Personalization and Data-Neighborhoods.” In this interview, she shares her experiences from her doctoral studies.
