At Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon we have staff supervising research degrees across fine art, design, curating and performance. The list of research staff and their subject areas will enable you to take the first step in finding the right supervisor.
Art and science
- Photography, art and media practice
- Image perception and cognition - stillness and movement, embodied perception, attention and temporality, modes of address
Curation, collections and archives
- Art history and theory
- Modernism and contemporary art in Brazil
- Collections and archives
- Printmaking - new and old technologies
- Fine art
- Museum studies and curating
- Fine art painting
- Theory and practice of the curatorial, especially in relation to the global and transnational
- African and diaspora contemporary art and visual cultures
- Archives, embodiment, oral histories
- Conceptual art practices
- Science fiction, utopianism, speculative futures
- Museums, collections, display and engagement
- Fine art painting and curation
- The histories of abstraction, modernism and the baroque
- Visual art
- Semantic technologies for arts and archives
- Documentation of art practice
- Fine art painting, the expanded field of painting and curation
- The performative possibilities of painting
- Photographic technologies and the history of the experiment
- Curating contemporary photography
- Photographic objects and photographic dematerialization
- Technical images and mechanical reproducibility
Communication design
Sadhna Jain
- The practice of agency within communication design
- Taxonomies and ideas of classifications in design
Ecology and society
- Fine art, context specific sculptural installation and photography
Neil Cummings
- Producing art, critical practice, generosity
- Political economy of art, the Anthropocene
- Sustainable and circular design practice
- Textiles for fashion, interiors and automotive
- New materials, applications and business models
- Design-driven and social research methods for collaborations
- Sustainable fashion and textile design
- Material innovation and textile finishing
- Lifecycle and closed-loop design
- New production technology
- The circular economy
- Sited artwork and mutable sculpture
- Living environment
- Mutability and change
- Contemporary photographic and moving image practices
- Representation of landscape and ecology
- Technologies and Apparatus of depiction
Identity, subjectivity and feminism
- Fine art practice, painting, drawing
- Race, blackness and national identity
- Fine art museums and collections
- Sexuality, gender and intersectionality
- Performativity
- Trauma
- Dress and textiles associated with the African diaspora
- Material and visual culture
- Writing and curating
- Artists' moving image practices, especially in relation to subjectivity, 'the body', performativity, and marginality
- Psychoanalytic discourse as a model for auto-fiction, especially in moving image practices
Materiality
- Sustainable and circular design practice
- Textiles for fashion, interiors and automotive
- New materials, applications and business models
- Design-driven and social research methods for collaborations
- Sustainable fashion and textile design
- Material innovation and textile finishing
- Lifecycle and closed-loop design
- New production technology
- The circular economy
- Fine art, painting, drawing
- Meaning and process in contemporary painting
- Fine art, printmaking, drawing, photography
- Visual perception
- Materiality and surface
- Visual art
- Semantic technologies for arts and archives
- Documentation of art practice
Philosophy, society and politics
- Art, capitalism and Marxism
- Value theory, labour and automation
- Public sphere and participation
- Institutional critique and the history of art’s institutions
- Art as social practice
- Fine art practice and drawing
Marsha Bradfield
- Authorship, subjectivities, genre studies, metanarratives
- Art research
- Collaborative cultural production
- The 'work of art' in relation to 'the art of work'
Andrew Chesher
- History and criticism of post-war, neo-avantgarde and contemporary art in Europe and North America
- Phenomenology, deconstruction, social theories of meaning
- Photography, film and documentary
- Fine art, painting, drawing
- Meaning and process in contemporary painting
- Amnesia and belonging in visual art
- Imagination as a social practice
- The relationship between poetics and politics in installation art
- Economy and history of materials in installation art
- Taste, aesthetics and design
- Utilitarianism and aesthetics
Paula Smithard
- Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis, art and society
- Modern and contemporary art history and theory
- Contemporary art
- Design labour
- Future studies
- Gender studies
- Biopolitics
- Transnationalism
Psychology, perception and pedagogy
- Sculpture theory and practice, clay, ceramics
- Art and psychoanalysis
- Archiving
- Performance art
- Concrete poetry
- Photography, art and media practice, image
- Perception and cognition - stillness and movement, embodied perception, attention and temporality, modes of address
- Fine art theory and practice
- Fine art pedagogy
- Site specific practice and art research
- Fine art, printmaking, drawing, photography
- Visual perception
- Materiality and surface
Space and aesthetics
Bernice Donszelmann
- Fine art theory and practice
- Architectural space and wall installation
- Amnesia and belonging in visual art
- Imagination as a social practice
- The relationship between poetics and politics in installation art
- Economy and history of materials in installation art
- Sited artwork and mutable sculpture
- Living environment
- Mutability and change
- Beholding, aesthetics, and situated art
- Architectural and spatial design practices and aesthetics
Theatre, acting and performance
- Objects, environments, and apparatus in post-dramatic performance
- Binaural sound and emergent performance technologies
- Making contemporary theatre
- Scenography
- The presentation of national identity through design
- Performance
- Identity
- Theatre design
- Scenography
- Post-dramatic theatre: acting, directing, and dramaturgy
- Performance, politics, and the public sphere
- Decolonising performance histories and contemporary practices
- Fine art painting, the expanded field of painting and curation
- The performative possibilities of painting
Writing, narratives and moving image
- Contemporary photography and moving image practices
- Representation and the use of text and narrative in contemporary fine art practice and relation to historical works of literature, cinema and photography
- Moving image and performance as contemporary art practice
- The performance of text, particularly in relation to issues around artificial intelligence, ecology and absurdity
- Artists' moving image practices, especially in relation to subjectivity, 'the body', performativity and marginality
- Psychoanalytic discourse as a model for auto-fiction, especially in moving image practices