MPhil/PhD Practice-Based Design

Overview

The School actively supports practice-based MPhil and PhDs as a route whereby working designers can develop their own creative visions, techniques and methods through rigorous research.

We welcome applications that fit into the School’s research themes:

• Archive
• Colour Science and Technology
• Design Innovation
• Drawing
• Educational Innovation
• Fashion
• Knit Design and Manufacture
• Textile Design and Clothing Manufacture
• Textile Science And Technology

The research degree by practice is a common mode of research in the area of art and design and has grown enormously over the past decade. This involves the exploration of a subject of enquiry through practical work accompanied by a related text. The relative weight of these elements varies for each project. The word 'related' may be interpreted in various ways, but a clear structural and Intellectual link must be established between the two aspects of the project.