First Ukrainian PhD Program in Mass Communications is starting on 1 October. The Program is the joint project initiated by the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy and Rinat Akhmetov’s Foundation for Development of Ukraine

The program targets to train scientific and educational staff with the highest education degree. The course follows the pattern of the third cycle of European Higher Education Area based on so-called Salzburg Principles. The program will train researchers in global communications. Ukraine doesn’t have any specialists of the kind in commercially-focused researches or social importance surveys. Ukraine has seen few researchers of long-term influence of various media on various audiences or long-standing preferences and demands of the audiences including influence of the media on the society and its individual groups. Neither can Ukraine boast of interdisciplinary researches that regard communications in the context other sciences.

Research areas within the new PhD program:

• Communications and public sphere
• Anthropological aspects of communications
• Political communications, public opinion and political psychology
• Organization, strategic and marketing communications
• Media policy and governmental communications
• Intercultural and interpersonal communications
• Gender aspects in communications
• Visual communications and movies research
• Communications about health

The project is designed for four years.

The first year investment will amount to UAH 560,000.

Project timeline – 2008-2012

Yevgeniy Fedchenko, Director of the Kiev Mohyla School of Journalism, the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy:
“The fixed subject of research makes the Program different from the existing postgraduate courses. The second difference is that the Program is designed for full-time studies. The students will attend a number of intensive education and research disciplines partially lectured by guest professors from western universities. The third point concerns individual researches that will be carried out under supervision of several scientific advisers including one from a western partner-university. The fourth key advantage of the Program is that it will become the first step to help integrate Ukrainian media researches into the global context. All PhD candidates will research communications in Ukraine and write works in English too. They will publish results in international specialized journals and national specialized print media as well as present them at international and national conferences, forums and symposia. These activities target to increase the so-called “impact factor” of research results. Ukrainian media researchers are almost not mentioned by the global science. This makes their scientific value and eventually relevance rather doubtful”.

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http://j-school.kiev.ua/phd-program/

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