Research Degrees

We offer a wide range of Postgraduate Research opportunities

• MPhil 2 years full-time, 3 years part-time
• PhD 3 years full-time, 6 years part-time

Research proposals are invited in the following areas:

Architecture:
Urban regeneration and the politics of the environment
Architecture and modernism
Interior architecture
Issues in the pedagogy of architecture

Arts, Media and Communication Design:
Animation
Time based and digital media
Colour theory
Photography
Contemporary photographic theory and practice
Colour theory
Experimental film
Contemporary video theory
Technology and visual culture
Concepts of temporality

Contemporary Crafts:
Ceramics and textiles

Design:
Design management
Graphic and digital media
Sustainable product design
Design branding and modes of consumption
Applied arts
Leisure software design and electronic arts

Fashion and Textiles:
Conceptual and experimental fashion
Discourses related to textile materiality, textile narratives and textile cultures
Intersections between fashion, body, art and/or performance
Anglo-Japanese textiles
Textile within the fields of cultural identity and gender
Textile traditions as related to innovative textile practices and materials
Fashion and industry
Fashion design and trend
Fashion promotion
Fashion product innovation
Fashion marketing

Fine Art:
Contemporary theory and criticism
Public art
Art and the environment
Contemporary landscape
Digital arts
Painting and technology
Sculptural practices and installation

Visual Identity and New Media:
New Media narratives and articulations of culture, identity, gender, the self
New Media practices within fashion and textile
Digital/virtual media environments
Visual identity and new media representation

Research degree accreditation:
UCA validates its Research degrees through the University of Brighton