Research Student Supervisors
This page lists current supervisors, with links to their research profiles. These give an idea of the key areas of research that are covered at the RCA. If there is a particular member of staff that you are interested in working with, then please email the relevant School Administrator. While we offer relevant supervisory expertise for all of our research students, we cannot guarantee that you will be allocated your preferred supervisor. However, all academic staff named in these lists contribute to research seminars and lectures, and there will be opportunities to seek advice from staff beyond your supervisory team as appropriate.
See MPhil/PhD Application Process for more information on the application process and writing a research proposal.
Vice-Chancellor's Office
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design
Dr Jo-Anne Bichard
Rama Gheerawo
Dr Chris McGinley
Professor Jeremy Myerson
Intelligent Mobility Design Centre
Professor Dale Harrow
Dr Cyriel Diels
Professor Stephen Boyd Davis
Dr Artur Mausbach
Dr Jiayu (Zoe) Wu
Material Science Research Centre
Professor Sharon Baurley
Dr Bruna Petreca
School of Architecture
Professor Graeme Brooker
Dr Mark Campbell
Dr Daniel Fernández Pascual
Professor Tarsha Finney
Dr Maria Shéhérazade Giudici
Dr Jon Goodbun
Dr Platon Issaias
Dr Sam Jacoby
Dr Adam Kaasa
Dr Adrian Lahoud
Dr Guan Lee
Dr Godofredo Pereira
Find out more about MPhil/PhD degrees in Architecture.
School of Arts & Humanities
Research Lead: Professor Rebecca Fortnum
Dr James Ryan (V&A)
Felicity Aylieff
Jonathan Boyd
Dr Heike Brachlow
Mel Brimfield
Dr Steve Brown
Dr Sarah Cheang
Dr Nicky Coutts
Dr Ben Cranfield
Michaela Crimmin
Denise de Cordova
Kate Davies
Anne Duffau
Dr Chantal Faust
Professor Rebecca Fortnum
Pamela Golden
Professor Johnny Golding
Graham Hudson
Dr Mel Jackson
Sarah Jones
Dr Melanie Jordan
Dr Jaspar Joseph-Lester
Professor Peter Kennard
Dr Pil Kollectiv
Dr Emily LaBarge
Rut Blees Luxemburg
Bob Matthews
Jonathan Miles
Jeremy Millar
Dr Peter Oakley
Sally O'Reilly
Dr Tim O'Riley
Francette Pacteau
Professor Olivier Richon
Michael Rowe
Dr Aura Satz
Tai Shani
John Slyce
Alexandria Smith
Professor Martin Smith
Sarah Staton
Professor Jo Stockham
Emma Talbot
Dr Joanne Tatham
Finlay Taylor
Dr Sarah Teasley
Edward Thomasson
Milly Thompson
Dr Nina Wakeford
Professor Victoria Walsh
Dr Grant WatsonHermione Wiltshire
Find out more about MPhil/PhD degree Arts & Humanities.
School of Communication
Research Lead: Professor Teal Triggs
Nicky Hamlyn
Anne Howeson
Joe King
Rathna Ramanathan
Tom Simmons
Teal Triggs
Kevin Walker
Find out more about MPhil/PhD degrees in Communication.
School of Design
MPhil and PhD applicants are encouraged to view the profiles of the School of Design specialist subject areas and potential supervisors and then email design-research-admins@rca.ac.uk with a research proposal prior to application. Please make sure when contacting us and applying to state the subject area and name of the potential supervisor(s).
Research administrator: design-research-admins@rca.ac.uk
Design Products
Professor Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen
Dr Rob Philips
Global Innovation Design
Fashion
Zowie Broach
Barry Curtis
Susan Postlethwaite
Tristan Webber
Innovation Design Engineering
Intelligent Mobility
Professor Dale Harrow
Dr Chris Thorpe
Robotics
Service Design
Textiles
Professor Clare Johnston
Dr Fiona Curran
Flora McLean
Jemma Ooi
Dr Sara Robertson
Freddie Robins
Lynn Tandler
Anne Toomey
Dr Elif Ozden Yenigun
Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality
Find out more about MPhil/PhD degrees in Design.
CONTACTS
School of Architecture:
soa-admins@rca.ac.uk
School of Arts and Humanities
soah-research@rca.ac.uk
School of Communication
soc-research@rca.ac.uk
School of Design
design-research-admins@rca.ac.uk
Intelligent Mobility Design Centre
imdc@rca.ac.uk
Material Science Research Centre
msrc@rca.ac.uk
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design
hhcd@rca.ac.uk