Profile Description
The University of Chester welcomes PhD students across a range of areas in the Arts.
The Department of Art and Design offers programmes in Fine Art, Photography and Design, and provides a supportive environment for MRes, MPhil and PhD students. Research degrees can be pursued through text-based studies or a combination of studio-based activity supported by a critical commentary.
The Department of Performing Arts offers students the opportunity to work alongside well-practiced and experienced researchers. It is particularly strong in interdisciplinary performance, new technologies and performance, applied drama and musicology, while maintaining a strong interest in more traditional areas of research – text-based work, performance theory, contemporary choreography and musical composition.
Research
Both departments had attracted external funding and had strong REF 2014 submissions. 47% of the Department of Art and Design submission achieved 4* and 3* recognition. Similarly, a significant proportion of the Performing Arts' outputs were judged to be internationally excellent or world leading in terms of originality and significance.
A key aspect of both teaching and research at Chester is the notion of inter-disciplinarity.
Interdisciplinary areas of research interest in the Department of Art and Design include:
• The legacies of modernism
• The role of materiality and embodiment in thinking, making and knowing
• Time, place, and cultural memory
• Participatory practice
• Communication, cultural awareness and identity within digital environments
• Textile practice and critical discourses and processes within contemporary visual culture
• Visual narrative and drawing, particularly in the context of the Centre for Narrative Drawing (http://www.chester.ac.uk/art-design/cnd).
The Department would also be keen to hear from students who wish to pursue their research across a broad spectrum of fine art, photography and design.
The Department of Performing Arts welcomes PhD enquires in the following areas:
• Contemporary British drama
• Theories of acting
• Theatre and nation
• Relationships between live and mediated performance
• Intercultural performance
• Applied practice
• Educational drama
• Musicology
• Popular Music Studies
• Composition
The PhD Programme
The University of Chester has almost 500 students studying towards a research degree who benefit from excellent library and learning resources, including a postgraduate study space and a regular programme of skills development workshops. Research students also have access to specialist performance and workshop spaces, equipment in support of analogue and contemporary work processes, and ICT facilities for research. They also participate in the research seminars at departmental and faculty level.
Funding Opportunities
This advertisement is for self-funded study. However, fee bursaries may become available on a competitive basis. Additionally, each student is allocated an allowance for conference attendance.
How to Apply
Department of Art and Design applicants should contact Dr Tom McGuirk at t.mcguirk@chester.ac.uk. Performing Arts applicants should contact Dr Shelley Piasecka at s.piasecka@chester.ac.uk or Dr Ruth Dockwray at r.dockwray@chester.ac.uk
Information on entry requirements and the application process can be found at https://www.chester.ac.uk/research/degrees.
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