Art and Creative Practices University of Brighton

Overview

The PhD in Art and Creative Practices at the University of Brighton offers an inspiring and rewarding environment for postgraduate research, where innovation and knowledge is acquired and shared through creativity and arts-orientated understanding.

Characterised by a blend of scholarship, knowledge exchange, traditional and cutting-edge practices, our research has been influential in collaborative developments with diverse communities and partners locally, nationally and internationally. It is our belief that knowledge generated through the development of creative and critical practice enhances and shapes every aspect of our contemporary culture and future lives.

Key facts

• It is a research degree that has developed for the needs of practising professional, amateur and student artists, also community arts providers, curators and directors, inclusive arts practitioners, art therapists -- all those who use creative involvement in the arts as a way to develop, preserve and disseminate knowledge and understanding.

• Practice-led research in the arts can lead to knowledge in many ways. It can arise in the methods of artists' practices, artists' interventions in society, the artefacts and exhibitions produced and the ways communities engage with art. Art can communicate and question knowledge; it can disrupt what is taken for granted and define the limits of knowledge. 

• Arts research can provide knowledge about practice and engagement with art, but can also be a means through which researchers understand wider issues, intersecting for example with politics, sexuality, ecology, health or psychology.