25.03.2010
Stuttgart Media University now offers established PhD procedure
A clearly defined and recognised pathway for graduates and research assistants wishing to go on to study for a doctorate has now been established at the Stuttgart Media University (HdM). The Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West of Scotland (UWS), Professor Seamus McDaid, and HdM Principal Professor Dr. Alexander W. Roos recently signed an agreement which envisages the joint supervision of doctoral students. According to HdM, the first candidates will enrol at the UWS for their doctoral degrees, which usually take three years to complete, in the winter semester 2010/2011.
To date, students and research assistants at the Stuttgart Media University were only able to study for doctoral degrees in individual cases at other German universities or universities abroad. Partners outside Germany were universities in London, Moscow and Linköping in Sweden.
The UWS - like the HdM - has emerged from numerous mergers of older institutions of higher education. The university now operates from four campuses in Greater Glasgow, in Ayr, Dumfries, Hamilton and Paisley. The subject areas served by both institutions overlap to a very large extent. The Scottish universities "Computing" and "Creative and Cultural Industries" schools in particular are said to share common interests with Stuttgart. HdM and UWS have sustained an increasingly intensive partnership with each other for many years; these contacts have evolved via joint applications for specific projects and joint teaching events ("summer schools") through to the current collaboration on PhD degrees.
The Stuttgart Media University is a state institution of higher education in Baden-Württemberg which offers 21 Bachelor's and Master's degrees in all fields of media - from printing through to internet, from design to business management, from library science through to advertising, from media contents through to packaging technology, and from computer science and publishing through to electronic media. The university currently has around 3,400 registered students.
