| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2024-09-01 | - |
| 2024-04-01 | - |
| 2024-01-01 | - |
Program Overview
This PhD program in Art History & Visual Culture investigates art's historical and cultural roles, covering topics from traditional arts to new media and spanning the old masters to contemporary practitioners. It allows students to explore cross-disciplinary perspectives in art history, cultural studies, and other relevant fields, providing opportunities to collaborate with experts from various disciplines. The program benefits from industry connections with museums and galleries and attracts students from diverse backgrounds worldwide.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
You will have the opportunity to study a topic which incorporates a number of established subject areas, including art history and cultural studies. Supported by colleagues from across the Humanities disciplines with research interests in Visual Culture, we offer PhD supervision on a range of topics:
- from the old masters to contemporary practitioners
- and from elite production to popular culture. You will also be able to conduct cross-disciplinary research in collaboration with other relevant fields of study. This programme will particularly appeal to you if you have a background or interest in
- the history of art
- cinema
- cultural history
- philosophy
- sociology
- visual culture. Beyond the University we have good relations with UK museums and galleries, as well as academic and research institutions internationally, attracting research students from all over the world and many cultural backgrounds.
Careers:
We are committed to ensuring you receive high quality research supervision to maximise your potential and prepare you for a rewarding career. Postgraduate students have access to the wide range of support offered by our Career Zone. In addition, postgraduate research students can access our Postgraduate Researchers' Programme, which covers a range of topics to help you to succeed during your research degree and to act as a springboard for your research career.
Other:
Our research in Art History & Visual Culture is interdisciplinary in scope. Art History & Visual Culture staff publish on the history of art, design and cultural studies. They curate exhibitions, work with a variety of arts and culture institutions, and lead major externally-funded research projects on topics as diverse as curatorial engagements with performance archives; the history of French art and its institutions; Renaissance architecture and public spaces; exhibitions and colonialism; visual cultures of health and illness; or the history of erotica and pornography.
Tuition fees per year 2024/25 Home: £4,786 full-time; £pro-rata part-time International: £22,600 full-time For those studying for more than one year, our fees are expected to increase modestly in line with Consumer Price Inflation measured in December each year. More information can be found on our Student Finance webpages. Tuition fees per year 2023/24 Home: £4,712 full-time; £pro-rata part-time International: £20,500 full-time For those studying for more than one year, our fees are expected to increase modestly in line with Consumer Price Inflation measured in December each year. More information can be found on our Student Finance webpages.
