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The University of Edinburgh: Art

Institution The University of Edinburgh View institution profile
Department Edinburgh College of Art
Web https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying
Study type Research

Summary

Postgraduate research in the School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, is internationally renowned, interdisciplinary and publicly engaged. Our research creates, embodies and responds to new registers of contemporary art and culture, whilst rearticulating processes and practices associated with established artistic media.

We are an intellectually vibrant, ambitious and supportive community where research produced by staff and students – both individually and collectively – is disseminated nationally and internationally. Collaboration, experimentation and an outlook beyond the University are central to this. We aim for our research to constitute social and cultural impact within and beyond the University.

Both MPhil and PhD programmes in the School of Art allow for either a purely theoretical project or for a combined practice-and-theory approach to artistic research. The PhD by Practice programme is designed for applicants who have established a well-developed creative practice beyond their previous HE degrees that is strongly connected to their proposed research.

MPhil and PhD candidates are supported by individually tailored supervisory arrangements made within the School of Art and ECA, as well as across the University of Edinburgh as a whole. PGR students are further supported through a broad portfolio of training events run by the University’s Institute of Academic Development (IAD). Our membership of the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH) allows us to arrange cross-institutional supervision with our partners in the consortium, as appropriate for individual students’ project needs.

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

Master of Philosophy - MPhil

Edinburgh University

Edinburgh. Extraordinary futures await.

The University of Edinburgh is one of the world's top universities, consistently ranked in the world top 50, and placed 34th in the QS World University Rankings 2026.

Our position as one of Britain’s leading research universities was reaffirmed by the results of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). The University of Edinburgh is one of the world’s top research-intensive universities, ranked 4th in the UK for research power (Times Higher Education, Overall Ranking of Institutions), with 90% of our research activity classified as world leading or internationally excellent in the 2021 Research …

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