The Slade School of proper Art is definitely an art school by having an worldwide outlook, a part of UCL, London’s global college. The Slade provides a supportive, stimulating and inventive atmosphere to build up your doctorate research. We welcome applications from students with an array of backgrounds, within the United kingdom and worldwide. Our focus is on subject matter inside the Slade (painting, sculpture and art work media) as well as on interdisciplinary research between your Slade and disciplines provided by UCL.

The Slade belongs to the AHRC funded London Arts and Humanities Partnership. The LAHP is going to be awarding as much as 80 studentships for postgraduate research students studying arts and humanities disciplines at King’s College London, School of Advanced Study or College College London in 2017-18. These studentships, which normally cover charges and maintenance allowance (stipend), are for sale to United kingdom and EU students.

The aims from the MPhil/PhD programme will be to:

• advance the greatest quality of research in Art Work that demonstrates ambition, breadth of vision and creativeness
• allow you to further your aspirations like a practising artist, and, or, author
• encourage your practice, art and writing, to create an authentic contribution to understanding, and also to further understanding with the processes of research
• encourage a diversity of research outputs such as the visual and verbal (exhibitions, occasions, performances, collaborations, publications, conferences)
• affirm the significance of Art Work research whilst going through the options of interdisciplinary research along with other departments and ability at UCL
• request you to lead towards the research culture from the Slade and also the wider UCL community and also to exchange methods for working, thinking, doing and being
• let the discussing of research with national and worldwide research institutions and also the wider publics

The Slade provides a choice between your following three options inside the PhD programme:

• Practice-brought: a thesis of studio practice which makes an authentic contribution to understanding plus a study of 15,000-40,000 words (or 10,000-20,000 words for that MPhil).
• Practice-related: an itemized thesis of 60,000-80,000 words with studio practice that together make an authentic contribution to understanding (or 35,000-45,000 words for that MPhil).
• Written thesis only: an itemized thesis of 80,000-100,000 words which makes an authentic contribution to understanding (or 50,000-60,000 words for that MPhil).

The MPhil/PhD programme has strong links towards the trained programmes in the Slade and you’ll also have the School-wide lecture and visiting artists’ programme. The Slade provides excellent workshop and research facilities. Current Slade research styles include: painting, sculpture, fine-art media, materiality, word and image, landscape and electronic media.

Included in UCL we provide a comprehensive selection of research skill courses through UCL Doctorate School plus support in the Arts and Humanities Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies (JFIGS) and London Arts and Humanities Research Partnership (LAHP).

Additionally to non-public tutorials, students take part in:

• relevant research skills courses organised by UCL Doctorate School and London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP)
• a bi-weekly Forum/Exchange for that presentation of research by Slade along with other UCL research students
• regular workshops answering students’ research interests
• workshops on writing and research
• exhibitions, occasions, symposia, conferences in the Slade Research Center, Woburn Square
• the organisation of the annual students’ event which could take the type of an exhibit, conference or symposium.

Students will also be likely to attend:

• discipline specific MA/MFA studio workshops inside the Slade painting, sculpture and art work media areas
• workshops and lectures provided by Slade and UCL staff and asked artists and loudspeakers: Slade staff talks, the Slade Contemporary Art Lecture Series and also the UCL Good reputation for Art Center for Contemporary Art lecture series.

Additionally we’d expect our students to become active participants in exhibitions, performances, occasions, conferences, and publishing both within and beyond UCL.

Mind from the Doctorate Programme and Co-ordinator from the written and exercise-related options: Dr Sharon Morris
Co-ordinator from the practice-brought option: Dr Hayley Newman

Most of your supervisor is a person in Slade staff. all whom are practising artists or scholars within the background and theory of art, with national and worldwide profiles.

Secondary supervision can also be offered by famous scholars and specialists throughout UCL, such as the sciences where appropriate. Second supervisors presently include: Dr Chiara Ambrosio (Science Studies), Dr Tim Beasley-Murray (School of Slavonic East European Studies, Dr Stephanie Bird (German), Dr Caroline Bressey (Geography), Dr Victor Buchli (Anthropology), Dr Ben Campkin (Bartlett School of Architecture), Professor Susanne Kord (German), Dr Petra Lange-Berndt (Good reputation for Art), Dr Miriam Leonard (Greek and Latin), Prof Tamar Garb (Good reputation for Art), Professor Susanne Kuechler (Anthropology), Professor Timothy Mathews (French), Dr Peg Rawes (Bartlett School of Architecture), Dr Ruth Siddall (Earth Sciences), Dr Alison Wright (Good reputation for Art).

There’s also possibilities for interdisciplinary supervision over the London Arts and Humanities Partnership with staff in King’s College London and also the School of Advanced Studies.

Recent and current people to the MPhil/PhD Programme Michael Newman Kristen Kreider Howard Caygill Fiona Sampson Saradha Soobrayen.

Application Deadlines

There’s two application deadlines:

The very first application deadline is 31 October 2016. Interviews for shortlisted candidates will occur on 6, 7 and eight December 2016. If you want to submit an application for a LAHP or UCL Scholarship, you should choose this deadline.

The 2nd application deadline is 27 Feb 2017. Interviews for shortlisted candidates will occur on 25 April 2017.

Both application deadlines are suitable for entry in September 2017.

Applicants can attend the MPhil/PhD Open Day, which is held 10am – 1pm on Wednesday 5 October 2016. For details regarding how to book, see our tours booking page .

Application Technique of MPhil/PhD and Graduate Affiliate Research

All applicants for MPhil/PhD and Graduate Affiliate Research should Apply Online. Course code: RRDFINSING01, Programme Title: Research Degree: Slade School.

Applicants must complete the internet form and upload the next supporting documentation:

1. A digital Transcript out of your undergraduate degree programme. For those who have also taken a Master’s programme, you need to upload another transcript
2. an investigation Proposal (roughly 2 A4 pages). The proposal will include: a listing of the suggested section of research inquiries to be addressed a preliminary statement from the relationship between written and practical/visual research if relevant some symbol of research techniques to be deployed and a few mention of the existing literature or any other type of production (visual/practical) within the field along with a bibliography of two-3 A4 pages
3. individuals students whose education is not conducted within the British language should upload their newest British Language Test Certificate
4. a CV

an article:

• for practice-related or thesis only applications: a Writing Sample of writing close to 8,000-10,000 words (upload this because the Additional Document).

• for practice-brought applications: a brief written piece as high as 1,000 words addressing or contextualising your personal work (upload this because the Additional Document).

If you have completed the internet form and joined contact emails for the referees, they’ll be contacted instantly providing them with instructions regarding how to upload their references. All applications must include two references that must definitely be submitted from your referees. References are a fundamental part of the applying which is under your control to make sure that your referees upload their references quickly so the entrance examiners ask them to once they take a look at application. It’s suggested that you simply complete the internet application prior to the deadline to provide your referees time for you to complete their references .

If you’re applying to accept practice-brought or practice-related MPhil/PhD you’ll be asked to submit your portfolio online via Slideroom. You will have to submit as much as 15 images. Range from the title from the work, date, dimensions and medium for every image. Videos and flicks ought to be presented like a showreel having a maximum time period of 10 mins. Submissions that do not follow the following tips can’t be considered.
Further details, along with a connect to the Slade’s Slideroom portfolio submission, will be delivered to you after you have posted the UCL MPhil/PhD application, including instructions for individuals applicants who don’t require to use Slideroom

Dr Sharon Morris and Dr Hayley Newman, Co-ordinators from the Slade Doctorate Programme, along with a small group of senior Slade staff meet to think about all applications and shortlist candidates based on the caliber of their studio work, their appropriateness for research, and also the practicality of the research proposal and it is supervision. Shortlisted applicants is going to be interviewed through the co-ordinators as well as the suggested supervisory team.

Effective applicants normally register in September.

Applicants holds a great first degree and can normally be envisioned having studied to MA or MFA level.

A lot of students whose first language isn’t British must achieve a acceptable degree of proficiency in British language before beginning their studies in the Slade.
Various British language qualifications are acceptable. For that MPhil/PhD the great level is needed.

For admission enquiries please email Joe Tilley .

Because of the quantity of applicants we’re not able to go over who to appoint like a supervisor in order to recommend proposals before you decide to submit the application, however, you might add names for your form and when shortlisted we’ll also suggest possible supervisors. Please consider the Slade website for staff research profiles .

Tuition charges

UCL’s tuition charges are positioned yearly and canopy registration, tuition and supervision for every academic year, or a part of an instructional year that you’re enrolled. Tuition charges are susceptible to a yearly increase. The charge doesn’t cover artists’ or any other academic materials. Current charges and additional details about fee status, how you can pay and bills are available around the UCL Money pages .

Scholarships

The Slade belongs to the AHRC funded London Arts and Humanities Partnership that can bring together three leading United kingdom research organisations: College College London (UCL), King’s College, London (KCL) and also the School of Advanced Study (SAS). The LAHP is going to be awarding as much as 80 studentships for postgraduate research students studying arts and humanities disciplines at King’s College London, School of Advanced Study or College College London in 2017-18. These studentships, which normally cover charges and maintenance allowance (stipend), are for sale to United kingdom and EU students. In addition to funding for studentships and shared doctorate training, this can open additional possibilities for interdisciplinary supervision for Slade students across these 3 leading research institutions. For more information, please visit world wide web.lahp.ac.united kingdom .

If you want that need considering for any LAHP Studentship you have to apply through the first deadline of 31 October 2016 for entrance in to the programme the next September 2017.

For information on UCL Scholarships along with other UCL funding possibilities please visit the next links:

Applicants must indicate on their own UCL form that they would like to obtain a UCL Scholarship. If you want that need considering for any UCL Research Scholarship you have to apply through the first deadline of 31 October 2016 for entrance in to the programme the next September 2017.

Please carefully examine the deadline for just about any funding application. Many deadlines for scholarships fall early early in the year and you may want to make an application for the October deadline.

Bursaries

Every year the Slade Bursary Committee awards a lot of 500 Bursaries, funded by donations in the Buddies from the Slade along with other benefactors to students with particularly difficult financial conditions. A lot of students are qualified to use.

Jean Spencer and Malcolm Hughes Bursaries can be found every year for MPhil/PhD students in order to further their research through projects, conferences, travel, or any other research activities. The utmost size any bursary is 500 and applications for smaller sized awards are encouraged. There’s two deadlines per academic year and applications are thought in the Slade Doctorate Board.

Other causes of funding for research including conference, travel and project funds are available around the UCL Doctorate School webpages.

There’s two application deadlines, 31 October 2016 and 27 Feb 2017.

Please be aware that if you’re trying to get a grant or scholarship, you can examine the deadline ahead of time. Most funding deadlines fall several several weeks prior to the programme begins. Many deadlines fall early in the year and this means that you have to affect the Slade through the November deadline to have guaranteed a location around the programme over time to try to get funding. Begin to see the UCL Scholarships and Funding page for more details.

All applications are thought with a small group of senior Slade staff and shortlisted candidates are asked for interview. Interviews are conducted through the co-ordinators from the PhD programme as well as the suggested supervisory team. Because of the large number of applications received, we’re not able to provide feedback in your application or interview.

Candidates are anticipated to start their programme in September.

For information on UCL Scholarships along with other UCL funding possibilities begin to see the following links:

Please carefully examine the deadline for just about any funding that you’re trying to get. Most funding deadlines fall several several weeks prior to the programme begins. Many deadlines fall early in the year which may mean you need to affect the Slade through the November deadline to have guaranteed a location around the programme over time to try to get funding.