Kingston University
PhD Scholarships 2009
Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture
The Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture is pleased to announce the availability of a number of full-time three-year PhD scholarships and part-time PhD fee waivers, for projects to start in Autumn 2009. Research proposals, including for practice-led projects, are invited for the subject areas listed under each of our Research Centres:
Contemporary Art (Centre for Useless Splendour)
Agency and socially-sited art production
Art and technology
Knowledge, art and the archive
Embodiment, matter and experience
Design
Sustainable and Environmental Architecture
Creative Resource
Curating the Contemporary
Fashioning Luxury
Design for Environments
Sustainable Design and Architecture
The City
Design Practice, Theory and Pedagogy
Visual and Material Culture
Theories and histories of the artistic avant-gardes
Art, War and Commemoration in the Twentieth Century
The Art Market in the Middle East: A Cultural and Political History from Goupil to the Gulf
Post-war Émigré Sculptors in Britain
Identity based performance art in Japan since the 1960s
Contemporary art practices: place, history and audience
Modern Interiors Research Centre
The design of the public and private interior 1870-1970
Modernity, identity and the interior
Real Estate Research Centre
Sustainable communities
Valuing real estate for sustainability
Regulatory frameworks
Built environment education
Further details of these Research Centres are available from the Faculty Research Administrator, Emerald Day. The scholarships are for £15,000 made up of the EU/UK tuition fee plus a bursary, and Scholars will be expected to undertake a small amount of teaching. Part-time fee waivers are also available. Successful applicants will be expected to apply for AHRC funding through the Faculty. Applications for our range of taught postgraduate programmes are also welcomed.
Tel +44 (0) 20 8417 4016
Email e.day@kingston. ac.uk
Visit www.kingston. ac.uk/designpost grad
Closing date for applications: 12 January 2009.
Interviews: week beginning 26 January.
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