Art Department Doctoral Scholarship

The Art Department at Goldsmiths, University of London, invites applications for a funded three-year Doctoral Scholarship on its world leading Art Research MPhil/PhD programme for September 2023 entry.

Our programme supports advanced innovative art research in Fine Art, Curating, Art Writing and across disciplines, in an environment of ambitious speculation and rigorous experimentation.    

In addition to our regular recruitment rounds, we are now seeking applications from outstanding candidates who want to contribute to and expand upon one of the research areas below, working with the named member of staff as primary supervisor for the enquiry:

–The Arts of Planetary Re-Wilding (Ros Gray)
–Queer Art and Identity Forms (Joseph Noonan-Ganley)
–Decoloniality in Asia (Nuria Querol)
–Alternative Art Pedagogies (Elle Reynolds)
–Critical Poetics of Resource Extraction (Audrey Samson)
–Choreographic Material (Edgar Schmitz)    

In your application you should outline an original project which falls within one of these fields of study. Candidates may work in any medium and be either practice-led or theory-based, according to the three pathways in our Programme.  

The successful candidate will have their full-time home tuition fees paid and receive a stipend to cover living expenses for the three years of the scholarship.  

Please submit your application through the Goldsmiths application portal on the programme webpage. In the research proposal, please indicate clearly that you are applying to the “Art Department Doctoral Scholarship 2023”. Application processes are outlined in the “How to Apply” section of the programme webpage. Deadline for applications is June 23, 2023 at 5pm BST, with interviews to be held w/c July 3, 2023.     

For questions or further detail please contact Dr Edgar Schmitz, Programme Director for the Art Research MPhil/ PhD programme (e.schmitz [​at​] gold.ac.uk).