Visual Culture PhD

**We welcome applicants wishing to explore visual culture understood as a meeting ground between creative practices, the philosophical and the political.**<br/><br/>We usually accept research students into the Department of Visual Cultures on the basis of a match between your proposed research and the current research interests of the department as well as an assessment of your qualifications and suitability to undertake a research degree.<br/><br/>In order to ascertain whether your project matches our research interests and meets the criteria for MPhil and PhD level study, please consult our application pack which also contains a proposal form.<br/><br/>Research in the department is organised around the following thematic clusters:<br/> - Culture, Memory, Futurity<br/> - Environmental Humanities and Ecologies<br/> - Globalisation and Transcultural practices<br/> - Performance and Live Art<br/> - Philosophy, Critical and Visual Theory<br/> - Political Aesthetics<br/> - Sexes, Genders, Genres<br/> - Spatial Practice and Architecture<br/> - Technologies of Image and Sound<br/> - The Curatorial