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We have 188 art and design PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships
art and design PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships
We have 188 art and design PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships
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PhD Opportunities in Art, Media Arts and Design
We warmly invite applications for full-time or part-time self-funded PhD study. About the PhD programme. Research in the Art, Design and Media Research Centre (ADMRC) employs critical and imaginative art, media and design strategies to investigate and problematise social and cultural norms. Read more
AI Generated Art: An Investigation into Computational Creativity
This PhD project seeks to investigate the increasingly complex and at times fraught relationship between Artificial Intelligence AI and the production of art. Read more
Contemporary art and Scottish colonialism
A practice led PhD of research on any aspect of Scottish colonial links and connections, its cultural influences, its effect on social, cultural, and political life, its effect on the personal life, in Scotland or beyond. Read more
Photography, Landscape and Trauma
The proposed PhD project is an in-depth investigation into the complex relationship between photography, landscape and trauma. PhD projects should be concerned with the overlap between these three keywords by analysing a specific, well-defined and highly original case study proposed by the applicant. Read more
Visual Culture and Japan: Context, Critique and Analysis
We are pleased to announce a new PhD opportunity that specifically focuses on the analysis of visual culture in, from or in relation to Japan. Read more
Semiosis: Semiotic Enhancement of Visual Communication for Improved Audience Engagement
Visual communication (graphic design and illustration) outcomes communicate to real people. Read more
Visual Memes and Viral Images: Analysis, Discourse, Politics
The proposed project will explore the role of online memes and viral images in the transglobal socio-political landscape. Visual memes and viral… Read more
Film: an Ecology of Light
This PhD project weaves together film, ecology, and light, by addressing light as the filmic substance in the context of ecological discourse. Read more
Beyond Representation: Painting as Embodied Practice
Practice-based PhD project that understands painting as an intuitive embodied act that goes beyond representation, that is, the concrete realisation of something seen or thought. Read more
Photography and Digital Marketing for Fashion
The proposed project will investigate the relationship between photography, fashion marketing and social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok. Read more
Dissenting Graphic Illustration in Eastern Europe
Graphic illustration may include contemporary forms of illustration such as graphic novels, zines, comics, artist books, reportage illustration, posters, and graphic journalism; it may also include older forms of graphic works such as block prints, chapbooks, and periodical illustrations. Read more
Narrative Illustration and Performance
The proposed project will investigate the intersections between illustration and performance across media, including, but not limited to. Read more
Photography and the Digital Body
The proposed project will involve an investigation into the relationship between photographic practices and the body in the digital age. Read more
Visual Culture in Times of Political Change
The proposed project will explore the relationship and tensions in visual culture and politics/ideology in moments of intense socio-political change brought about by rebellion, protest, revolution, regime change, ideological ruptures, collapse of political systems and so forth. Read more
Urban Design Strategies as a critical Agent for Knife Crime-prevention
This is an exciting opportunity to research how by (re)designing urban public space, specific types of crime could be prevented. The state-of-the-art urban design research indicates that there is little research on the subject of knife crime. Read more
