About UCA

UCA is the UK’s highest-ranked creative university (Guardian/Complete University Guides 2021), offering courses in Architecture, Art, Crafts, Design, Fashion, Film, Performing Arts and Creative Business across Surrey, Kent, and overseas.

We support our students to forge their own path and use their creativity to make a difference. Right now, they’re making the creative industries more inclusive and sustainable, changing perspectives, and winning awards – from Golden Globes to Pulitzers.

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 judged to be internationally recognized for quality, and 78% to be world-leading or internationally significant.

Project Title: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in British Photography, 1980s-2000s

This studentship is offered in conjunction with UCA’s Fast Forward project, led by Professor Anna Fox. Proposals are invited for an archive-based research project investigating transformations in representation of race, gender, and sexuality in work by generations of British photographers active from the 1980s to the 2000s. The PhD project will examine socio-political dimensions of the relationship of these practices to society and education, giving the successful candidate the opportunity to engage with less well-known archives of work by, e.g., Emily Anderson, Roshini Kempadoo, Tessa Boffin, Joy Gregory and Eileen Perrier.

For full details of the scope and context of the studentship, please visit: https://www.uca.ac.uk/research/research-degrees/
The studentship package includes a fee waiver for three years’ full-time study, and a stipend of £17,688 each year for three years (or equivalent for part-time study for Home students). The studentships recognise excellence in research and are highly competitive and limited in number.  Applicants whose application passes an initial review will be invited to interview. Applicants who are successful at interview and offered a place will be put forward for consideration for the Vice Chancellor’s Studentship awards. Studentship decisions are based on the relevance of the research proposal, and performance at interview. Those applying for a studentship or other funding must apply by 17 April 2023. Decisions on studentship awards will be announced by 30 July 2023.

Subject Area(s)

Social Sciences & Social Care
Sociology
Social Policy
Social Work
Anthropology
Human & Social Geography

Media & Communications
Journalism
Communication Studies
Publishing
Media Studies

Historical & Philosophical Studies
History
History of Art
Archaeology
Philosophy
Theology & Religious Studies

Creative Arts & Design
Fine Art
Design
Music
Performing Arts
Other Creative Arts

How to apply

To see our entry requirements, register your interest or apply, please visit www.uca.ac.uk/research/research-degrees