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
- Fine art, optical imaging, computer technology
- Expanded field painting, temporality, inter-disciplinarity
- Painting as a research tool
- Collection, waste, clutter, disorder (spatial and psychological)
- Alternative forms of writing - fiction as theoretical
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
- Fine art, painting, portraits, book arts
- Archives
- Jocelyn Herbert
- 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
Communication Design
Sadhna Jain
- The practice of agency within communication design
- Taxonomies and ideas of classifications in design
Ecology, society and design
- Fine art, context specific sculptural installation and photography
Neil Cummings
- Producing art, critical practice, generosity
- Eco-design, fashion, textiles, new textile technologies
- Contemporary craft practice
- Sustainable fashion and textile design
- Material innovation and textile finishing
- Lifecycle and closed-loop design
- New production technology
- The circular economy
- Design thinking
- Social design
- Design innovation, futures
- Design/arts and policy innovation
- Sited artwork and mutable sculpture
- Living environment
- Mutability and change
Identity, subjectivity and feminism
- Fine art practice, painting, drawing
- Race, blackness and national identity
- Fine art museums and collections
Ope Lori
- Race and gender identity
- Visual culture and representation
- Lens-based media and performance, spectatorship
- Subjectivity and feminism
- 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
- Fine art, painting, drawing
- Meaning and process in contemporary painting
- Fine art, printmaking, drawing, photography
- Visual perception
- Materiality and surface
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
- 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 and pedagogy
- Sculpture theory and practice, clay, ceramics
- Art and psychoanalysis
- Archiving
- Performance art
- Concrete poetry
- Fine art theory and practice
- Fine art pedagogy
- Site specific practice and art research
Space and aesthetics
Bernice Donszelmann
- Fine art theory and practice
- Architectural space and wall installation
- Beholding, aesthetics, and situated art
- Architectural and spatial design practices and aesthetics
Theatre, scenography and costume
- Scenography
- The presentation of national identity through design
- Performance
- Identity
- Theatre design
- Scenography
Elisabeth Dawson
- Costume interpretation
- Dress history
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
- Alternative forms of writing - fiction as theoretical
- 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