Art, Design and Performance at University of Portsmouth research transcends disciplines, and can apply a wide range of research skills and methods to a variety of issues. What research projects tend to have in common at Portsmouth, is social awareness, and the paradigm of positioning practice based work critically in a social, cultural and historical context.
Supervisors come from both practice and theory backgrounds. We are therefore well positioned to support a variety of research programmes and we offer PhD by practice as an option. We encourage qualitative or practice-led research, utilising appropriate research skills such as: historical research, semiotic analysis, user research, action research, iterative process and reflective practice.
Research Group
The PPRG exists to provide interdisciplinary discussion across the Faculty on conducting research by practice-based art, design and performance methods. It shares examples of staff and other creativity and explores the growing body of theory and models of research in this area in order to build our research culture and to inform effective future research funding applications and REF submissions.
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You can choose to do this programme part-time or full-time.
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