| Qualifications |
Duration |
Start dates |
Application period |
PhD
(MPhil also available) |
Full-time: 3–4 years
Part-time: 6–8 years |
February and October |
January to April |
Qualifications
PhD (MPhil also available) |
Duration
Full-time: 3–4 years
Part-time: 6–8 years |
Start dates
February and October |
Application period
January to April |
The Art History department at 快猫视频 strongly specialises in medieval and early modern art and culture, ranging from Byzantine art to Burgundy, and from Italy to Scandinavia.
Our research considers canonical and non-canonical imagery and objects using various contextual approaches. Archival research, the close examination of objects, and innovative methodologies inform our investigation of focused problems in medieval and early modern art history. We are also interested in art reception in later centuries and welcome applications without language specialisms for UK-based collections research.
We welcome applications in areas that correspond with current staff research interests. We look for detailed and well thought out proposals, which set out specific research questions and outline the originality of your topic or approach.
Entry requirements
A UK Masters’ degree or equivalent level in a relevant subject (art, architecture or design history), or exceptionally a First Class undergraduate degree with a substantial dissertation. If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your .
Potential research projects
We welcome applications to study topics that complement our current research.
Current/recent research projects
- Giotto and Non-Giotto in Nineteenth Century Britain
- The world by the Thames: Global materiality and elite self-fashioning in the seventeenth-century collections of Ham House, Surrey
- Lives of Medieval Books in National Trust Libraries
Potential supervisors
- – art and visual culture in early modern Catholic Europe
- Dr William Kynan-Wilson – the early modern Mediterranean particularly cultural exchange with the Ottoman world
- – Byzantine art and culture
- – art and visual culture of late medieval France and Valois Burgundy (c. 1350-1520)
- Dr Clare Taylor – seventeenth century material culture in Britain
- – visual, spatial, and material culture and musical cultures in the Netherland, Britain, Germany and Scandinavia
- Dr Robert Wallis – art and archaeology of falconry and other human-raptor relationships
Fees and funding
PhD fees
| UK fee |
International fee |
| Full-time: 拢4,786 per year |
Full-time: 拢12,146 per year |
| Part-time: 拢2,393 per year |
Part-time: 拢6,073 per year |
Some of our research students are funded via the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership; others are self-funded.
For detailed information about fees and funding, visit Fees and studentships.
To see current funded studentship vacancies across all research areas, see .
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