Design PhD

**Goldsmiths’ Department of Design postgraduate research programmes offer you the opportunity to redefine design research in a community of design practice.**<br/><br/><br/>- It is aimed at practitioners and scholars of design, and those in related disciplines, who wish to develop a theoretically engaged, critically aware and empirically informed approach to design, design education, design research and design practice.<br/><br/><br/>- The programme builds on and contributes to the Department’s internationally renowned approaches to inventive, experimental, and creative research where design’s relation to the social is placed centre stage.<br/><br/><br/>- You can choose to do a practice-based or a thesis-based research degree.<br/><br/><br/>**Practice-based MPhil/PhD**<br/>The practice-based programme explores new approaches to, or applications of, existing knowledge by means of design practice. <br/><br/>For PhD, the research will create new knowledge by means of practice research. Your thesis will integrate an original body of practice and a written component providing critical analysis of your practice, critical assessment of relevant literature and practice and describe the method of research. Assessment is by thesis and viva voce.<br/><br/>**Thesis-based MPhil/PhD**<br/>The thesis-based programme provides a written account of your research and contribution to knowledge on a subject related to design.<br/><br/>The MPhil thesis will provide a distinct contribution to the knowledge of a subject related to design and the PhD thesis will provide an original contribution to knowledge on a subject related to design. Both include a critical assessment of relevant literature and describe the method of research. Assessment is by thesis and viva voce.