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13 PhD programmes in Game Design in United Kingdom

Digital Media Arts
In the vibrant and expanding Digital Media Arts programme of the University of Surrey, we embrace subjects that include: film, animation, visual effects, computational arts, video games, immersive media, digital acting, mediatised theatre, motion graphics, movement interfaces, performance capture, machine vision and interactive cinema.

Digital and Creative Technologies
If you're ready to take your expertise in Digital and Creative Technologies into a postgraduate research degree, University of Portsmouth is the perfect place to realise your ambitions.

Game Technologies
Undertake Game Technologies degree from the University of Gloucestershire while drawing on university expertise. The specialisms include VR, AR and MR, IoTs, mobile technology, gamification and serious games, user experiences and user interface development.
Computing
Postgraduate students at Abertay University will have access to research and development opportunities, as well as contact with professionals working within the Computing industry.
Applied Games
Abertay University has longstanding interests and track record in Applied Games research, an umbrella term for practice-based, theoretical, and experimental research exploring how games can be used in contexts beyond entertainment.
Game Design
Abertay University continues to lead the development of games as an academic meta-discipline, incorporating computer science, computer art, digital design, sound and music, human computer interaction, and media studies. It offers this PhD in Game Design.
Performance and Play
Drawing upon the expertise of academic staff across Games and Arts together with Games Technology and Mathematics, Abertay University has track record in cutting-edge Performance and Play research that bridges the performing arts and videogames.
Game Art and Animation
Game Art and Animation are applied professional disciplines within the games industry, drawing upon complex creative, conceptual, and technical skillsets. This PhD is offered at Abertay University.
Computer Games Development and Technology
Computer Games Development and Technology research at Abertay University considers the development of real-time 3D computer games, games networking and distributed computing.
Games Design
Research in Games Design at Brunel University of London covers a wide spectrum of theoretical and practical areas; the relation between video games and other media; video game aesthetics and politics; immersive technologies and game design, game-based learning, serious games, ludomusicology, inclusive games design, agency in games, games and socio-cultural studies.
Game Studies
Game Studies at Abertay University investigates digital games from a humanities-oriented perspective, utilising critical, historical, and social research methodologies.
Immersive Experiences and Technologies
Immersive Experiences and Technologies at Abertay University covers a wide range of applied and theoretical research.
Computer Arts
With more than two decades of experience in computer games education, Abertay University helped to pioneer the development of academic study for artists engaged with new and emergent media technologies. It offers this PhD in Computer Arts.