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  • Qualification

    PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy

  • Location

    University of Gloucestershire

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    FEB

  • Duration

    4 years

Course summary

Course overview

An art research degree offers you the opportunity to explore your innovative practice as research through the production of an original body of work and to place your work in relation to the work of other practitioners in a contemporary and historical context. Youll draw upon and extend existing knowledge and practices, and youll show that the research makes an original contribution to knowledge.

Typically, well help you to focus and refine detailed aspects of your practice as a research process – aspects which may or may not have previously been associated with art practice or other exploratory and creative forms of research. Well encourage you to more critically examine the thoughts and actions of others, as well as your own imperatives as a practising artist and/or art researcher.

Youll develop a thesis in parallel with practice-based research, and well help you focus on appropriate developments of your practice for pursuing your as research and work with you to refine appropriate forms of discourse and dissemination.

Alternatively, a PhD in Art can be wholly historical or theoretical, conforming to the conventions of traditional written theses. For some candidates, PhD research enables them to progress their career by establishing their research capabilities and credentials in an academic context. For others, the opportunity to examine practices in depth, to make a rigorous and original contribution to knowledge, can be an end in itself. For all those who commit to the PhD process, it represents an opportunity to rigorously examine a passion or interest that is both personally meaningful, and results in a high-level qualification concluding through the viva process in detailed peer review.

Researchers have the opportunity to study, discuss or exhibit their work, engaging with colleagues from a range of areas via seminars, symposia and conferences both online and offline: or travelling to meet with key figures from the area you wish to immerse yourself in.

Research areas

Youll be supported by staff whose specialisms include:

  • agendas around art and wellbeing
  • art and biblical interpretation
  • art and ecology
  • artificial intelligence and creative practice
  • artists books and publishing
  • contemporary drawing practice and pedagogy
  • contemporary painting
  • concrete poetry
  • craft work and practice
  • curatorial practice
  • curation in a community context
  • edge work, creative methods and ethnography
  • environmental art practices
  • Ethiopian artistic and architectural heritage
  • the extended field in relation to performance and video
  • graffiti and semiotics
  • International Modernism re-explored in contemporary fine art practice
  • narrative illustration
  • public pedagogy
  • sculpture
  • sensory studies
  • socially engaged practice
  • sound art

Tuition fees

Students living in Hong Kong
(International fees)

£ 12,775per year

Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.

University information

University of Gloucestershire

  • University League Table

    88th

  • Campus address

    University of Gloucestershire, The Park, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 2RH, England

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    48th out of 84 2

  • Entry standards

    / Max 239
    124 52%

    58th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    61.0 61%

    52nd

    1
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.11 78%

    54th

    24

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