Curating Contemporary Art has an active and developing research culture, with currently a cohort of 17 MPhil and PhD students. We offer research degrees by project and thesis (for more details see Research). Eligible MPhil students are able to apply for College bursaries on the same basis as MA students. With prior agreement they can also audit elements of the MA class and where appropriate participate in study visits. In the academic year 2011/12 we begin participation in a four-year European research project concerning issues of migration and identity as they affect thinking about the contemporary museum.

CCA welcomes applications for research degrees in a number of areas including transnational curating and the history and theory of curating. We expect to admit around three students a year to the programme. We are happy to respond to student research proposals, in advance of the application process.

We only admit students whose research we can confidently supervise. We can however collaborate with other academic institutions in the UK and abroad to provide a wider range of supervisory experience.

• Post-60s Cypriot Art: Locating contemporaneity through the Postcolonial
• Curating the Postcolonial? Positioning contemporary art in India through its exhibitions
• The Biennial effect
• Cinema and memory in post-revolutionary Portugal
• Curatorial practice and institutional critique
• Absence and disappearance in contemporary art
• Crossing the Exhibition: Meanings and possibilities in contemporary art exhibitions
• Failure: A device for mapping curatorial practice
• The Make Event Married to the Spectator Event: Theory and practice in John Latham’s work
• The problem of event-oriented art within the contemporary museum
• Art of Former Eastern-Bloc Countries: From the exclusion from public space to the exclusion of public space
• The work of French conceptual choreographer Jérôme Bel in relation to post-structuralist theory and visual arts
• Os Bolseiros: Ideology, internationalism and the artist in Cold War era Mozambique

Clare Carolin
Michaela Crimmin
Ros Gray
Jean Fisher
Kit Hammonds
Ruth Noack
Victoria Walsh

Charles Aubin, MPhil by project
Natalia-Rozalia Avlona, MPhil by thesis
Michal Bieniek, MPhil by project
Stefano Cagol, PhD by thesis
Tania Doropoulos, MPhil by thesis
Shanay Jhaveri, MPhil by thesis
Elisa Kay, MPhil by thesis
Hyukgue Kwon, MPhil by thesis
Louli Kyriaki Michaelidou, PhD by Project
Núria Querol, PhD by thesis
Sarah Raza, MPhil by project
Polly Savage, MPhil by thesis, AHRC Doctoral Award