Curating and Creative Practice

This practice-based doctorate is designed for senior curators, creative practitioners and leaders in galleries, libraries, archives and museums. It focuses doctoral research on the pairing of curating with creative practice, so that professional experience becomes the basis for study. Students follow a practice-based research project and produce a high-level outcome alongside written analysis. The route combines taught professional modules with independent research, and it is equivalent to PhD level. The course suits people working across learning and education, technical roles, leadership and self-employment, and aims to advance professional practice within cultural organisations. It is available full-time and part-time. Graduates build the research capacity to lead change in galleries, archives and cultural organisations. Study is organised around a practice-based research project that the student designs.