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In partnership with Zurich University of the Arts, we have developed a practice-based doctoral programme, the PhD in Practice in Curating.

This programme allows you to explore curating as a practice that is deeply involved in politics of display, politics of site, politics of translation and regimes of visibility. As well as writing a thesis, you will be assessed on practical research outputs such as exhibitions.

Key areas of focus include:

• exhibition practice
• curation
• publication projects
• critical art writing
• experimental film and video
• performance

These are all underpinned by an emphasis on digital technologies as a format for the production, dispersion and interpretation of art.

Other specialisms include:

• post-colonialism
• de-colonisation
• artist films
• performance and subjectivity
• theories of labour
• feminism
• radical art pedagogy.

While many students develop research proposals whose outcome will be a fully written thesis, we also support research that incorporates elements of art practice combined with critical reflection.