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Registration is now open to take part in Money Mindset Challenge for Artists hosted by Work Show Grow
Money Mindset Makeover is a free 3-Day Challenge designed to help creatives unlock the barriers that prevent them from securing funding for their work.
From the 24th, 25th and 26th March, artist and educator Natasha Caruana will conduct daily Read More
PhotoIreland launches the 8th FUTURES Talent Call for artists, opening the opportunity for the first time to all UK practitioners. The 2025 call is now open and will close at 6pm Sunday 15th December 2024.
The submission to this opportunity organised by PhotoIreland as the Irish member of the FUTURES Photography Platform is open and free Read More
If you are curious to explore your story telling process, get insight from philosophical texts and inspiration from other art forms then this out-of-the-box workshop is for you!
The 4 two-hour meetings are designed to combine material from different pools of thought on specific themes, discussion among the group and hands-on work on your visual strategies Read More
Printed Visions: A Photobook Workshop for African Photographers with Anne Nwakalor, Founding Editor No! Wahala Magazine, and Giulia Brivio, Chief Curator Artphilein
What is a photo-book and how to create a dummy photo-book or a zine?
The workshop will delve into a brief history of the photo-book, providing context and background for exploration.
Participants will travel into the Read More
Photoworks and the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) are seeking applications from young people who are keen to develop their creative photography practice with support from Photoworks and an experienced artist mentor. Young people will help the CBA explore how it reimagines what archaeology is for a contemporary audience.
This project is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Read More
The Doctoral School of the Vilnius Academy of Arts (VDA) hosts a vibrant community of 32 practice-based researchers in the arts (fine art, design, and architecture) and 32 researchers in art history & theory. Established in 2010, the doctoral program in the arts aims to facilitate artistic research for artists, designers, architects, curators, art writers, Read More
In this short course, leading art historian and gallery owner James Hyman will introduce participants to collecting photography.
Collecting photographic images is an accessible way to build up an art collection, and photography is an art form that many of us will relate to in a very immediate an instinctive way.
With his many years of experience, Read More
The Daniele Tamagni Grant brings together material and intellectual resources to address the creation of a long-term value programme focused on photography, photojournalism and education. The Grant is addressed to emerging photographers whose work engages with the African continent or its diaspora, without restrictions in terms of the applicant’s nationality.
The winner of the open call Read More
Take part in one of two different creative workshops – poetry and flower sculpture – that aim to bring people together, connect and be inspired by Siân Davey’s The Garden.
Inside Out is a free and inclusive summer festival, produced by Westminster City Council and partners, that brings our city’s world-renowned arts, entertainment and culture into the Read More
“Public art does not exist. It is simply art in a more complex context.” This was artist Jonas Dahlberg’s response when invited to initiate a course on public art. The answer developed into Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab, a hub and laboratory that operates as a year-long advanced course at the Royal Institute of Art Read More
PAID OPPORTUNITY
This workshop welcomes artists, photographers and filmmakers who wish to explore the natural surroundings of Seyðisfjörður, while experimenting with photographic processes directly linked to the immediate environment. Guided by visiting artist Sarah Fuller and local photographer Jessica Auer, the group will meet for daily walks and excursions, as well as practice studio-based Read More
LKSD is an analogue darkroom where we honour women photographers from all over the world and from all times and periods, establishing them as crucial practitioners and promoters of photography as an artistic, educational and empowering discipline.
LKSD run workshops on all aspects of analogue photography including Film Processing, Black and White Printing, how to Read More
The Representing Pride workshop is for emerging and early-career photographers from or based in the Mediterranean basin and will focus on developing participants’ practice through the creation of a new body of work around the subject ‘Representing Pride’, as well as expanding their professional skills and network. Throughout the programme, the participating photographers will further Read More
Research at UCA
With a vibrant and progressive research community and a wealth of specialist resources for creative research and practice, UCA offers you the ideal environment, based in UCA Doctoral College in Canterbury, to explore your chosen field and develop unique and impressive doctoral work.
We are a top-ten research community for Art & Design, and Read More
Applications are open for the NOOR Visualising Climate Crisis: Advanced Mentoring Programme in Vietnam taking place between April and September 2023
The climate crisis is one of the greatest challenges the world is currently facing. At NOOR, we strongly believe that through the power of visual journalism, impactful storytelling can inspire climate action. Read More
Applications are open for the Advanced Visual Storytelling educational programme by the NOOR Foundation, with a focus on the stories of the cocoa communities in Ivory Coast.
At NOOR, we strongly believe that visual storytelling is a powerful medium that can bring awareness to underrepresented stories and human experiences. We believe that everyone, regardless of Read More
Angkor Photo are pleased to announce that the Angkor Photo Workshops is back and open for applications.
Their annual tuition-free workshop returns from 6 – 15 January 2023 with a redesigned format to bring you closer to their original mission – to strengthen and nurture each individual participant’s unique vision and autonomous approach to their practice.
They Read More
Propositions: Expanded Practices is the second set of long-term series of educational programming where practitioners present their ongoing enquiries in the form of intensive and experimental workshops. Functioning as an opening out of the practitioner’s research methodologies, working materials, and conceptual methods, the programmes facilitate dialogue and critique through involved and participatory models. Existing across Read More
Propositions: Expanded Practices is the second set of our long-term series of educational programming where practitioners present their ongoing enquiries in the form of intensive and experimental workshops. Functioning as an opening out of the practitioner’s research methodologies, working materials, and conceptual methods, the programmes facilitate dialogue and critique through involved and participatory models. Existing Read More
The Sitka Center’s 100+ class annual Workshop Program is taught by a diverse group of 80+ instructors. These instructors come from around Oregon and the nation to teach in an inspiring environment with dedicated students. Each year they seek 30 – 40 new instructors to refresh and invigorate their programs.
• Over 100 art and nature-inspired Read More
Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW) and Amazon Photos have partnered to present Photography as an Agent for Change, a year-long workshop series exploring concepts of photography as a tool for advancement in areas such as racial equity, social justice, environmental justice, visual literacy, creative practice, storytelling, and cross cultural communications. PCNW seeks proposals of curriculum that Read More
GRAIN Projects (Birmingham), FORMAT and QUAD (Derby) are delighted to announce a new iteration of their successful East Meets West masterclass programme, which will take place online.
The masterclass programme is for UK based emerging photographers and offers professional development, inspiration, guidance and support in a collaborative learning environment in order to allow photographers to develop Read More
The University of St Andrews is pleased to offer a full scholarship funded by St Leonard’s Postgraduate College, to support an exceptional student undertaking doctoral research in the following project: Feminist Documentary Photography and Activist Networks.
The past two decades have witnessed a surge of scholarly and curatorial interest in feminist art production in the UK, building on the foundational feminist Read More
Amnesty, Archives, Activism: Photojournalism and the Development of Human Rights Media Campaigns in Britain since the 1960s
The School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) has a long-standing reputation as a world-leading centre for innovative teaching and research. The following studentship is available:
Amnesty, Archives, Activism: Photojournalism and the Development of Human Rights Media Campaigns in Britain since Read More
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, PhD Studentship for ‘The Migrant Eye: Reactivating the Photographic Past through Archives and Exhibitions in Liverpool and North West England’ (Communication & Media, University of Liverpool/Tate Liverpool)
Closes: 5 February 2021
Type: Full time
Salary: Home Fees + Maintenance (£15,285, in 2020/21) for 3.5 years
Contact: Michelle.Henning@liverpool.ac.uk; jblejmar@liverpool.ac.uk
Applications are invited for an AHRC CDA doctoral Read More
The University for the Creative Arts (UCA) is the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019 Modern University of the Year, as well as being ranked no.1 specialist university.
UCA are currently recruiting to their MPhil/ PhD programme and have a limited number of fee scholarships to offer suitably qualified applicants for practice-based or thesis only research Read More
To enter this year’s Ian Parry Scholarship, you will need to be 24 or younger or enrolled on a full-time recognised photographic course. Your application should contain the following information:
1) Your name, date of birth, permanent address, personal email address, personal telephone number, and if applicable, college, course title and course tutor.
2) A project description giving us Read More
A Common Narrative proposes to participants from any kind of creative field, to work collaboratively on the context of Brixton toward one unique visual publication.
On the basis of their personal interests and past projects on the neighborhood, they will be invited to bring their own vision and authorship to articulate together one narration. In this Read More
WOMEN’S EYE PROGRAM APPLICATION CALL
WOMEN’S EYE is a Program by the Kigali Center for Photography, focus on girls and women in photography in Rwanda by providing skills and assistance in their career (Providing space for Creating and Exhibiting, Assistance on Projects and Access to Monthly center’s activities)
The Kigali Center for Photography is the first and only center of Read More
All SPE student members are eligible to apply for a scholarship to offset the cost of attending SPE’s 2020 annual conference. Awards are offered based on merits of submitted portfolios and include a travel stipend to attend the annual conference, a 2020 annual conference fee waiver, and a one-year membership to SPE. Jurors will seek Read More
Two Junior Fellowships for PhD students at the VALIE EXPORT Center Linz will be invited to the tender at the Kunstuniversität Linz.
The VALIE EXPORT Center of the Linz Art University processes, explores, contextualises and conveys the premise of VALIE EXPORT. As an internationally oriented research center, it promotes the artistic and scientific examination of media Read More
MAKING THE CUT
Professional Film and TV training for disabled people*
If you’re a beginner or have limited experience – then this course will boost your career.
Enjoy skills training, mentoring and work placement opportunities.
Course dates: September 2019 to February 2020
Induction day:Thursday 3rd October
Cost: £55
After the course, you will:
Show off your new skills in Read More
The VALIE EXPORT Center Linz_ Research Center for Media and Performance Art appraises, studies, contextualises, and mediates the premature legacy of VALIE EXPORT. International in its orientation, the research center strives to promote the artistic and scientific exploration of Media and Performance Art. The VALIE EXPORT Center is a co-operation of the University of Art Read More
Marking a step in contemporary photographic practice, Pathshala is going to start the 6th Batch International Photography Programme in Kathmandu, Nepal. This programme will allow the students to experiment with different visual styles, formats, transforming techniques into aesthetics and most importantly, developing a personal language through an intimate and informal learning method.
The six months International Read More
Applications are now open for the fourth edition of the ISSP International Masterclass, the year-long practice-based mentoring and networking programme for emerging photographers. During the programme, 24 participants develop conceptually strong artistic and documentary projects with some of the best photography tutors ISSP has ever worked with.
Classes 2019/2020, commencing October 2019:
Jason Fulford (US) – What Read More
National Portrait Gallery and Birkbeck University of London present AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership – fully-funded studentship:
Cultural Snipers: Photographic Portraiture in Britain, 1970-1990
The History of Art Department of Birkbeck, University of London and the National Portrait Gallery, London, invite applications for a fully-funded doctoral studentship under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme. The Read More
Ian Parry was a photojournalist who died while on assignment for The Sunday Times during the Romanian revolution in 1989. He was just 24 years of age. Aidan Sullivan, then picture editor, and Ian’s friends and family created the Ian Parry Scholarship in order to build something positive from such a tragic death. Each year Read More
The Nida Doctoral School (NDS) comprises an intensive programme for DA & PhD candidates in visual & performing arts, design, media & the humanities.
Focusing on questions pertinent to their individual research, doctoral candidates will work closely with speakers & tutors from art, design, higher education & the culture sector. Talks, discussion groups, doctoral research presentations Read More
View life through the lens of Diane Arbus on our five-week course in portrait and street photography.
Explore diane arbus: in the beginning at Hayward Gallery out of hours, take part in group discussions about her iconic photographs, and improve your photography.
See the exhibition away from the crowds, with plenty of time to become intimate with Arbus’ work.
In Read More
With Anglia Ruskin you can pursue your passion. Apply for one of our fully-funded PhD studentships, starting in September 2019 – and join a community of researchers committed to making a profound difference to the world around us.
Creative practice and creative industries
Storytelling, workflow and language in the fourth industrial revolution
Tate and UCL Institute of Archaeology invite applications from eligible candidates for a full-time collaborative PhD studentship, funded for 3 years by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, to commence in January 2019.
The proposed doctoral research aims to bring new theoretical perspectives to questions about visible and invisible practices in the contemporary art museum. Focusing Read More
East Meets West is a collaborative project devised by FORMAT International Photography Festival/QUAD and GRAIN Projects. This opportunity is aimed at photographers wishing to broaden their perspectives and push the boundaries of their personal development. We welcome diverse and innovative submissions from photographers that are based in the East and West Read More
The Ian Parry Scholarship is a free international photographic award for all full time documentary & visual photojournalism students on BA, MA, MFA courses. It is also open to freelance photographers of the age of 24 years and under.
Over the past 28 successful years the scholarship has played an important role in keeping the values and traditions of photojournalism alive Read More
Venues: East Street Arts & University of Leeds
Researching Guild: critical approaches to artists’ spaces, sustainability and regeneration
Supervised by Dr Jonathan Ward and Dr Leila Jancovich (School of Performance and Cultural Industries) with East Street Arts.
East Street Arts is currently developing Guild, a four year project (2018–2022) conducted with significant national and international partners, funded through Read More
Loughborough University, UK, October 1, 2018 – September 30, 2021
Application deadline: Feb 28, 2018
Funded full-time 3-year PhD studentships in the School of the Arts, English and Drama
Feminist thought and art practices
The intersection of feminist thinking with modern and contemporary art is increasingly an urgent and productive meeting point, proposing new insights, theories, critique and practices. We Read More
The Yale Center for British Art offers three types of short-term residential awards to scholars undertaking research related to British art. While in residence, scholars have access to the Center’s rich holdings of paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, rare books, and manuscripts, as well as primary and secondary reference materials. Scholars are also able to take Read More
Falmouth are delighted to announce four, fully funded PhD studentships to be hosted in the Academy of Music and Theatre Arts (AMATA); the Institute of Photography (IoP); the School of Architecture, Design and Interiors (SADI) and the School of Writing and Journalism (SoWJ). Falmouth University’s research is focused around the three core themes of Creative Read More
National Portrait Gallery, London and Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) in the Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design
Three years, full time
£14,553 pa stipend plus fee waiver
Applications are invited for an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Collaborative Doctoral Studentship, available to candidates who are UK residents with Home Read More
MA/MFA Art in the Contemporary World, National College of Art & Design, Dublin in collaboration with IMMA, is now inviting applications for its autumn (2017) research and teaching residency.
This residency is open to writers, artists, curators, educators and other practitioners who have published writings in the field of contemporary art. It will begin Read More
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Para Site’s 2017 Workshops for Emerging Art Professionals / Scholarships
Workshop Dates: October 14 – 21, 2017
Para Site is pleased to announce the 2017 Workshops for Emerging Curators, alongside Para Site’s annual International Conference, which will take place from October 14 – 21.
In its third succeeding edition, we will work Read More
Peer Forum, Artquest’s annual Peer Mentoring programme aims to assist artists by providing them with the funding, space and resources necessary to establish their own peer mentoring groups. Artquest are working in partnership with a number of London’s most respected art spaces to host these groups giving participants the opportunity to build relationships with their Read More
Our research influences policy, changes lives and helps us to understand the world. We think that’s the only kind of research worth doing.
We’ve got £8 million to fund PhD students who really shine. If you’re among the brightest and best in your field, we want to hear from you.
Applications for 2017 PhD scholarships are now Read More
Nottingham Trent University
Qualification type:
PhD
Location:
Nottingham
Funding for:
UK Students
Funding amount:
Not specified
Hours:
Full Time
Placed on:
12th October 2016
Closes:
9th December 2016
NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY – INVESTING IN EXCELLENCE
As part of our new Strategic Plan (2015-2020), we are committed to expanding our research excellence, and nurturing the next generation of researchers. We recognise the essential contribution that our postgraduate community can make in the Read More
Midlands3Cities
Qualification type:
PhD
Location:
Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham
Funding for:
UK Students, EU Students
Funding amount:
Not specified
Hours:
Full Time, Part Time
Placed on:
12th October 2016
Closes:
16th January 2017
AHRC studentships for UK/EU doctoral researchers in the arts and humanities Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership
Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M3C DTP) is an AHRC-funded collaboration between the University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University, De Montfort University, University of Leicester, Read More
CHASE
Qualification type:
PhD
Location:
Brighton, London
Funding for:
UK Students, EU Students
Funding amount:
Not specified
Hours:
Full Time
Placed on:
10th October 2016
Closes:
11th January 2017
CHASE is delighted to offer up to 75 Arts and Humanities Research Council studentships for October 2017
The Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE) hosts one of 11 Doctoral Training Partnerships awarded funding by the Arts and Humanities Read More
Ian Parry Scholarship
The award is open to all full time students of any age including recently (within the last year) graduated students and BA, MA and MFA students. It is also open to photographers (not attending a course) who are 24 years old or younger.
Please contact us at info@ianparry.org with any questions.
Edinburgh Napier University – School of Arts and the Creative Industries
Location:
Edinburgh
Funding for:
EU Students, International Students, Self-funded Students, UK Students
Funding amount:
These PhD studentships are funded by Edinburgh Napier University and includes fees only for suitable UK/EU nationals for 60 months (subject to satisfactory progress).
Hours:
Part Time
Placed on:
30th March 2016
Closes:
1st May 2016
Reference:
080/AS
Part-time PhD Studentships in Design, Photography and Read More
The call for applications for the 27 th edition of the scholarships Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation is now open.
This call is an opportunity for young designers or professionals under 30 (or under 35 for scholarships Bookseller, Photographer and Writer TV), in the fields of writing, of audiovisual, music and digital, to develop a project with financial Read More
University for the Creative Arts
Qualification type:
PhD
Location:
Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Rochester
Funding for:
UK Students, EU Students
Funding amount:
Fees award for the duration of the programme
Hours:
Full Time, Part Time
Placed on:
29th February 2016
Closes:
31st March 2016
The University for the Creative Arts (UCA) is offering a number of studentship awards in the form of fee bursaries to suitably qualified applicants to undertake research Read More
includes opportunities in Film, Digital Arts and Fine Art
Extensive range of research programmes and inspiring locations across Europe
If you are looking for funding for postgraduate research Kent has some great opportunities through its academic schools, research centres and specialist centres across Europe including:
Vice-Chancellor’s Research Scholarships
AHRC Consortium for Humanities and Arts South-East (CHASE)
ESRC South-East Doctoral Read More
University of Leeds – School of Media and Communication
The School of Media and Communication is delighted to invite applications for a number of PhD scholarships in any of the School’s areas of research expertise to start in September/October 2016.
The School is one of the top departments in the country for the study of communication, media Read More
