Coventry University’s Centre for Postdigital Cultures <https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures/> (CPC) and its Post-Publishing research strand <https://postpublishing.postdigitalcultures.org/)> invite applications to a fully-funded PhD studentship <https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-opportunities/research-students/research-studentships/practicing-post-publishing/> that explores alternative publishing practices and formats and discusses their potential to cultivate more supportive, diverse, and equitable publishing cultures. *Application deadline: *30 April 2025 *Start date:* September 2025 The studentship is full-time and open to UK and International (including EU) graduates. It offers tuition fees for 3 – 3.5 and a stipend to support living costs. We are looking for candidates that have a theoretical and/or practical foundation in fields related to publishing: This includes but is not limited to publishing studies, graphic design, artistic publishing, digital humanities, communication studies, literature studies, or related disciplines. Working with social justice, intersectional feminist, posthumanist, and decolonial approaches is especially desirable. The successful candidate will receive comprehensive research training including technical, personal, and professional skills. They  will become a member of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures <https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures/> (CPC) and itsPost-Publishing research strand. <https://postpublishing.postdigitalcultures.org/> Full details on eligibility and how to apply are available here: https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-opportunities/research-students/research-studentships/practicing-post-publishing/ *Project Details* We invite applications for PhD projects that challenge and intervene into the prevailing systems of scholarly publishing which prioritise research outputs (such as books and papers) as well as competitive, individualistic authorship models as the main metrics for academic recognition and success. This conventional approach often reduces scholarly works to commodities, neglecting the intricate socio-material processes of knowledge creation and sharing, which are inherently collaborative involving both human actors (authors, editors, reviewers, programmers) and non-human ones (digital texts, research cultures, technologies). Doctoral proposals are welcomed that focus on how alternative approaches to publishing can foster collaboration and mutual support over individual competition, social processes over quantifiable outputs, and knowledge equity and diversity in scholarly publishing. This includes but is not limited to applications that explore publishing and editorial collectives in- and outside the university, publishing practices (including joint writing, open peer review, shared annotation, alternative licencing, and collective editorship), as well as open, processual, and versioned books. The members of the supervisory team have expertise in critical, experimental, activist, and academic print and digital publishing; radical open access publishing; social justice, knowledge equity and diversity in academia; as well as in curatorial studies and spatial practices. We welcome applications that focus on specific case studies, engage in practice-research, and/or want to conduct an experimental publishing projects. We encourage projects that critically engage with existing literature in fields such as publishing and communication studies, digital humanities, cultural studies, media studies, and critical university studies as well as with past and current publishing initiatives and publications. Questions of interest include: * How can collaborative and processual approaches to publishing displace traditional metrics of scholarly productivity and success? * How can these approaches provide alternatives to a scholarly communication system currently focused on books and articles as objects and commodities? * How can these approaches create more supportive, diverse, and equitable research and publishing environments? -- Gary Hall Professor of Media Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University: https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/ Director of Open Humanities Press:http://www.openhumanitiespress.org Websitehttp://www.garyhall.info Latest: Book: Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence (in press):https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/ Blog posts: 'On Not Writing Accessibly - with David Graeber and Rebecca Solnit':http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2024/11/8/on-not-writing-accessibly-with-david-graeber-and-rebecca-sol.html 'The Pluriversal Politics of Radical Publishing's Scaling Small':http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2024/10/18/the-pluriversal-politics-of-radical-publishings-scaling-smal.html Recommended: Feeding the Machine by James Muldoon, Mark Graham and Callum Cant, in the AI 'magazine' Robot Review of Books (now also featuring This Podcast Does Not Exist):https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/