Applications now open: CREATe PhD Studentships on the Regulation of the Creative Economy: Creativity, Technology, and Markets

This is an opportunity to join the School of Law and CREATe as a PhD student, as we continue our work as AHRC research infrastructure.

Closing date: 15 April

CREATe invites applications for fully funded PhD research projects aligned with its AHRC infrastructure research programme, which focuses on legal and regulatory issues at the intersections of Creativity, Technology, and Markets. The legal domains CREATe principally focuses on are intellectual property law, competition law, information and technology law.

We welcome proposals that engage with legal and regulatory dimensions of the creative economy and emerging technologies and platforms, and which may also consider economic, historical, technological, or socio-cultural dimensions of the creative economy. These projects may correspond to a single area of law or multiple areas of law within CREATe’s scope (intellectual property, competition, information and technology law).

Although the proposals need to consider law and regulation in a broad sense, this call is open to all social science disciplines. We welcome proposals from candidates with any law or social science background.

We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary projects and those engaging with policy, industry practice, or empirical methods.

Interested candidates need to apply for the funded position via the University website. Shortlisted candidates will be invited for interview either on Monday 27 April, or Friday 8 May.

The funding is for a 3-year PhD, starting in academic year 2026/2027. It covers fees at standard home or international rate (as applicable), and also includes an annual maintenance grant (stipend) at UKRI rate.

If not admitted yet as a PhD student with the School of Law, candidates have to apply separately through the normal PhD application process. This can be done after the interviews for the CREATe PhD funding.