PhDs in Art & Art History

PhD in History and Civilization

The European University Institute offers one of the world’s largest and most distinguished doctoral programmes in the social sciences. The Institute is unique in its European, comparative and interdisciplinary focus, and offers up to four years scholarship to research students, leading to a doctorate in History & Civilization.

PhD in Archaeology and History of Art

The Ph.D. program in Archaeology and Archaeological Sciences offers academic training in two interrelated specializations. Students can choose to emphasize either archaeology or archaeological sciences or both. Students receive instruction in both topics although the emphasis will change according to the choice of concentration.

PhD in Arts Management and Cultural Policy PhD

The University of Manchester

The University of Manchester offers a PhD in Arts and Cultural Management. The Centre for Arts Management and Cultural Policy (CAMP) was launched in 2009, with the aim of providing an axis for engagement, collaboration and partnership between arts and cultural management professionals, sector organisations and higher education through its teaching and research programmes. The Centre works closely with Manchester-based, regional and national cultural partners and bodies and is developing partnerships overseas. Research supervision interests in the Centre include: music and regeneration; the role of research in the arts management practice; cultural mapping and planning methodologies; the role of producers in public arts and culture; engagement and participation frameworks; and modes of interaction in performative cultural practices.

PhD in Digital Media

Newcastle University

PhD supervision is available in the following areas: sensor-based interactive performance; locative media; user experience and ethnographic study of technology; systems art; interactive public screens.

PhD in Curating PhD

Goldsmiths, University of London

The Curating research programme is for appropriately qualified curators who want to develop and explore the wider implications of their work. We are especially interested in research into innovative contemporary curatorial practices, particularly as they reflect upon representations of contemporary visual culture – above all those in which art practice forms a central element. We anticipate that your research project will have a close affinity to your continuing interests as a curator. We expect specific curatorial projects to become part of your thesis if they can be shown to be integral to your research project. Your curatorial activities will also explicitly inform your research methodology.

PhD in Arts & Computational Technology PhD

Goldsmiths, University of London

The opportunities for artists and technologists working in artistic domains have long encountered difficulties in finding appropriate ways to ‘measure’ artistic practice in ‘practice-based research’ terms. This is the only programme in the University of London in which students can include creative work and an arts-based context of their practice within the distinctive field of arts and creative technologies.

PhD in Professional Doctorate in Architecture

University of East London

This doctorate is particularly suitable for qualified design professionals, including architects, engineers and product designers. It primarily aims to work on live projects in collaboration with local, national and international agencies, industry and practice through project-based research. It focuses on the notion of developing prototypes, with the potential ranging in scale and scope from material and building components, through to the development of urban prototypes and design frameworks.

PhD in Art History and Visual Studies PhD

The University of Manchester

Art History and Visual Studies operates a split-site PhD with the University of Art in Tehran, the premier higher education institute in Iran for the study of fine and performing arts, with separate campuses in Karaj and Tehran. The programme was founded to allow Iranian students to come to The University of Manchester, but enquiries are also welcome from students who may wish to take advantage of the opportunities that Manchester's link with the University of Art presents for comparative research on aspects of Persian and Western art, architecture and archaeology. Joint supervision can be offered with textiles experts in the Whitworth Art Gallery or with colleagues in Middle Eastern Studies.

PhD in Design and Technologies Exploitation for the Cultural Heritage

Politecnico Di Milano

The Doctorate Course on “Design and technologies for cultural heritage” promotes the training of new specialists able to integrate the various needs in design for the usage, valorization and management of cultural heritage.

PhD in Doctoral School of Humanities

Eötvös Loránd University

The 68 PhD programmes offered at present are part of 6 larger units known as Doctoral Schools. Proof of the exceptionally high standard of education is the ever-growing interest in our programmes. Our Faculty occupies a leading position in almost all fields, and is in many cases the only institution providing a particular programme not only within Hungary, but throughout Eastern Europe, and thus accounts for the development of specialists within that field in the whole region. Foreign students take part in the doctoral programmes via a tutorial system. During their PhD studies students have to collect 180 credits. The programmes are divided into three larger modules. The aims of the courses are to immerse students in their speicalised field of study, to endow them with the research methodology needed for an academic career, and to develop their qualities as theachers and researchers. By bulfilling the publication requirements students become part of Hungarian scientific life. Since the use of international re

PhD in Art History

University of Geneva

Doctoral degree in the field of history of art.

PhD in History

University of Essex

This allows you to undertake research in the field of history.