Program Overview

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Informed by your particular discipline, you’ll critically contextualise your work, clarifying both theoretical and practical research-based enquiries, and producing distinctive contributions to the research field.

You’ll be allocated two supervisors, with additional staff members available if necessary. Our supervisors are experienced in most areas of contemporary fine art, including recent issues in painting and the expanded field of contemporary practice; objects, installation and the virtual; interdisciplinary work with sound and video; performance art practices and their relationship to liveness and documentation; the interdisciplinary nature of printmaking; and landscape, mapping and ambulatory practices.

At Cambridge School of Art, you’ll be part of a vibrant and growing community of

researchers at PhD level

. We provide various research forums that accentuate the discursive and interdisciplinary nature of research, including the

Fine Art Research Unit

(FARU), which holds regular seminars and informal presentations for postgraduate and research students, and the

StoryLab Research Institute

.

At our FARU sessions you can present your work-in-progress, as well as hearing staff-led papers and engaging in discussions on our current research and related topics. You’ll benefit from our strong links with institutions in the UK and abroad, including

Kettle's Yard

,

Cambridge Arts Picturehouse

and the

Cambridgeshire Film Consortium

;

Tate Britain

,

Tate Modern

,

Camberwell College of Arts

and

Central St Martins

in London; ERBA Valence and

ENSA Bourges

, France. You’ll also have access to many exhibition and conference opportunities.

Completion times

MPhil: full-time 1-3 years, part-time 2-4 years.

PhD via progression from MPhil, including that period: full-time 2.5-5 years, part-time 3.5-6 years.

PhD: full-time 2-4 years, part-time 3-6 years.

For further guidance on the duration of research degrees please refer to the

Research Degrees Regulations

.