Overview

Informed by your particular discipline, you’ll critically contextualise your work, clarifying both theoretical and practical research-based enquiries, and producing distinctive contributions to the research field.

Learning outcomes

You’ll be allocated two supervisors, with additional staff members available if necessary. Fine Art supervisors are experienced in most areas of contemporary fine art, including recent issues in painting and the expanded field of contemporary practice; objects, installation and the virtual; interdisciplinary work with sound and video; performance art practices and their relationship to liveness and documentation; the interdisciplinary nature of printmaking; and landscape, mapping and ambulatory practices.

At Cambridge School of Art at Anglia Ruskin University, you’ll be part of a vibrant and growing community of researchers at PhD level. We provide various research forums that accentuate the discursive and interdisciplinary nature of research, including the Fine Art Research Unit (FARU), which holds regular seminars and informal presentations for postgraduate and research students, and the StoryLab Research Institute.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Photography, video and print media and intermedial/performative approaches to these, through shared language and the deployment of technology

Abstraction and indeterminacy in painting and music

The relationship of sound and image in recent video work

Nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century art, art and the fantastic, Bollywood cinema, visual narratives

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 24 months
Part-time
- 36 months
- Flexible

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-07-01 00:00:00 , International
- Apply before 2026-08-04 00:00:00 , National
Starting 2027-01-05 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-10-27 00:00:00 , International
- Apply before 2026-12-01 00:00:00 , National
Starting 2027-04-13 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-02-02 00:00:00 , International
- Apply before 2027-03-02 00:00:00 , National

Language

English

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80

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Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Fine Arts View 20 other PhDs in Fine Arts in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

PhD: You’ll need a Masters degree or equivalent in a related subject area.

If English is not your first language, you'll require a minimum IELTS score of 6.5, with a minimum of 5.5 in each component (or equivalent test). If you don't meet our English language requirements, we offer a range of courses which could help you achieve the level required for entry.

Tuition Fees

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International Applies to you

Applies to you

Non-residents

15900 GBP / year

≈ 15900 GBP / year
Domestic Applies to you

Applies to you

Citizens or residents

4786 GBP / year

≈ 4786 GBP / year

Living costs

Cambridge

United Kingdom

846 - 1465 GBP / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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