Research degrees

Research proposals are invited in the following areas across our five campuses:

Architecture

• Urban regeneration and the politics of the environment
• Architecture and modernism
• Interior architecture
• Issues in the pedagogy of architecture.

Arts, Media and Communication Design

• Animation
• Time based and digital media
• Colour theory
• Photography
• Contemporary photographic theory and practice
• Experimental film
• Contemporary video theory
• Technology and visual culture
• Concepts of temporality.

Contemporary Crafts

• Ceramics and textiles.

Design

• Design management
• Graphic and digital media
• Sustainable product design
• Design branding and modes of consumption
• Applied arts
• Leisure software design and electronic arts.

Fashion and Textiles

• Conceptual and experimental fashion
• Discourses related to textile materiality, textile narratives and textile cultures
• Intersections between fashion, body, art and/or performance
• Anglo-Japanese textiles
• Textile within the fields of cultural identity and gender
• Textile traditions as related to innovative textile practices and materials
• Fashion and industry
• Fashion design and trend
• Fashion promotion
• Fashion product innovation
• Fashion marketing.

Fine Art

• Contemporary theory and criticism
• Public art
• Art and the environment
• Contemporary landscape
• Digital arts
• Painting and technology
• Sculptural practices and installation.

Visual Identity and New Media

• New media narratives and articulations of culture, identity, gender, the self
• New media practices within fashion and textile
• Digital/virtual media environments
• Visual identity and new media representation.

Accommodation at UCA Maidstone

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