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The University of Edinburgh: Art

Institution The University of Edinburgh View institution profile
Department Edinburgh College of Art
Web https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying
Study type Research

Summary

At the Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) School of Art we provide a highly dynamic and supportive research environment for our large and diverse graduate community. Our research students benefit from ECA’s interdisciplinary research environment, which attracts postgraduate students and researchers across the fields of art, design, music, architecture, landscape architecture and history of art.

Research in this environment is further informed by collaborative exchanges with other areas in the University’s College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, as well as the wider University (such as the School of Informatics in the College of Science & Engineering).

Our current areas of expertise include:

  • Art

  • Art and architecture

  • Art education

  • Artist-run initiatives and DIY culture

  • Art and anthropology

  • Cultural memory, trace and place

  • Curating

  • Expanded painting

  • Feminism and intersectionality

  • Folklore, ritual and superstition

  • Haptic experiments

  • Human, animal and ecological interactions

  • Industrial landscapes

  • Installation art

  • Lens-based (film and photography)

  • Material and cultural (in)stability

  • New media, digital culture & filmic disorientation

  • Nonmodern, paragogy & weird materialisms

  • Printmaking and print media

  • Politics, site and aesthetics

  • Psychophysical sound creation

  • Sculpture & public art

  • Utopian ideologies

  • Visual anthropology & dreams

  • Voice as material

  • Weaving as process

  • 20th century continental philosophy and theory

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

Master of Philosophy - MPhil

Edinburgh. Extraordinary futures await.

The University of Edinburgh is one of the world's top universities, consistently ranked in the world top 50, and placed 27th in the 2025 QS World University Rankings.

Our position as one of Britain’s leading research universities was reaffirmed by the results of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). The University of Edinburgh is one of the world’s top research-intensive universities, ranked 4th in the UK for research power (Times Higher Education, Overall Ranking of Institutions), with 90% of our research activity classified as world leading or internationally excellent in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.

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