Our PhD successes in recent years include students who have gained positions with the V&A Dundee, employment in industry, lecturing posts, post-doctorate positions, government, the NHS, and many have continued to build successful careers in art and design.
PhD students have received major accolades, including the Scottish National Portrait Award, the Scottish Government Awards Climate Change Fund, and the AHRC Research in Film Awards.
We welcome many types of research, both theoretical and practice-based, reflected in applicants’ distinctive proposals.
Current students
Adam Nasser Benmakhlouf
Communal Words: How can art institutions support non-normative art writing?
Invisible stories of plants: Seven chapters on botanical trajectories of appropriation and exchange, probing colonial historical narratives and hierarchies to interconnect relationships through their materiality.
The Paradox of Sustainable Urban Development Demonstrated in the Prevalence of Informal Housing Development in Developing Countries: A Case of Abeokuta, Nigeria.
The Cultural Appropriateness of Housing Design: Responding to Kon Muang Local Housing Culture with Earthquake-resilient Architecture in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand.