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 the second-largest provider of creative education in Europe. In REF 2021 99% of our research was internationally recognized for quality, with 78% was judged to be world-leading or internationally significant. In our research centres (including the Crafts Study Centre, the International Textiles Research Centre, and the Centre for Sustainable Design), research produced impacts were rated as 87.5% world-leading or internationally significant.

Our subjects

We are currently offering places on our MPhil/ PhD programme (unfunded) and invite Home, EU or International candidates looking to pursue practice-based or thesis-only research projects to apply via the university’s online application process.

To find out more and make an application please go to the direct link.