PhD course (7.5 credits, distance learning online)

Course leader Annette Hill

Dates: spring 2027 Thursday afternoons, January to March

PhD thesis work takes multiple forms, from monographs and journal articles, to conference presentations and collaboration in networks. This course engages with thesis work in humanities and social sciences and explores and examines the various ways to publish in the academic landscape.

The course contextualises the publishing environment for academic writing, including recorded talks with leading publishers (eg Routledge and Intellect) on their tips for publishing with large and medium sized academic publishers. The course addresses journal publishing, from submitting an article, to editing a journal and reviewing for journals. There is a focus on abstract writing, from conferences to submissions for calls for contributions to journals and edited collections, to abstracts for academic writing that makes the authors stand out from the crowd in terms of searching and impact. And the course navigates book proposals, book chapters and tips on writing and handling editorial feedback for different collections and editorial teams.

Students taking this course will be able to motivate a publications plan arising from their thesis work and evaluate quality practices for academic writing in different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

Course Team

Course leader: Annette Hill is Professor of Media and Communications at Jönköping University. Her research focuses on media audiences, with interests in media engagement and experiences, everyday life, genres, production studies and cultures of viewing. She is the author of eleven books and over 90 articles and book chapters. Her latest book with Peter Lunt is The Routledge Companion to Media Audiences (2024). Her next book is Media Imaginaries (with Joke Hermes and Simon Dawes, Intellect 2026).

Guest speaker: Natalie Foster is Senior Publisher for Communication and Media Arts at Routledge and has over twenty years’ experience commissioning media and cultural studies books.

Guest speaker: Julia Brockley is Senior Commissioning Editor for Media and Communication Studies at Intellect and a Senior Associate with Maverick Publishing Specialists. Her publishing experience, which spans over 25 years, includes all product types - books, journals, reference, and digital resources.

How to Apply?

Click link to register online by 30 November, and email Annette Hill with CV and short cover letter

Course syllabuses are available on the doctoral program's website. Jönköping University

Register here no later than 30 November.