UAL Research Degree and Studentships, Open Event - In Person

What to expect:

You are invited to join an open session to find out about following an MPhil/PhD or PhD by Published Work, including funded places.

As a world-leading university in arts and design, UAL is an outstanding place to fulfil your research ambitions. We support a vibrant community of postgraduate researchers in each of our renowned Colleges/Institutes:

· Camberwell College of Arts

· Central St Martins

· Chelsea College of Arts

· London College of Communication

· London College of Fashion

· Wimbledon College of Arts

· Creative Computing Institute

· in partnership with London Contemporary Dance School

Find out more about our Doctoral School and Colleges

At UAL you can pursue practice or theoretically oriented approaches to research arising in the fields of visual and performing arts, design, film, media and communication, fashion and textiles, and creative computing.

By joining UAL, you will benefit from expert supervision, an extensive researcher development programme and access to our specialist facilities.

We are committed to creating a better and more sustainable world and championing equality through the creative research we do. This is reflected our generative environment for arts researchers, our innovative approach to doctoral education and our wider research culture.

This session will include a presentation by Prof Vida Midgelow (Dean of Doctoral School) and opportunities to ask questions of the research leaders from our colleges.

Apply for a MPhil and PhD

AHRC funded awards

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We are also offering an online event:

UAL Research Degree Online Open Event

Tuesday 10th March 2026

12pm – 2pm (UK time)

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ual-research-degree-open-day-online-tickets-1975094676345?aff=oddtdtcreator

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We are also offering workshops for applicants:

How to write a PhD proposal: for applicants for UAL Research Degrees and studentships

These workshops aim to support you in developing your research proposal for applying for a Research Degree at University of the Arts London. Through conversation and discussion we’ll look together at proposal-writing and mapping your project onto the UAL template. To focus on the needs of the attendees, we ask that everyone watch this presentation in advance (48 minutes) UAL Research Degree Proposal Information Session pre recorded.

The workshops are timed with the two application deadlines, 30 April 2025 for a September 2025 start and 31 August 2025 for starting in January 2026.

Workshops will be delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 24 March 2026, 14:00- 15.30

Registration: https://arts-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Sx2nYz-aR2KIlj2hGlV_Fw

Tuesday 28 July 2026, 14:00-15.30

Registration: https://arts-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hoY0d1MkSiifZ3NEgpwgNw