
The School of Arts & Humanities bridges research and study in the fine and applied arts together with curating, writing and the history of design.
The School of Arts & Humanities bridges research and study in the fine and applied arts together with curating, writing and the history of design.

We pay attention to the arts within the everyday, and to the everyday as site of practice, and as archive and technological advance. We maintain close and productive links with numerous organisations, world-renowned theatres, galleries, libraries and museums that depend on the Arts & Humanities and which are central to our cultural and economic future; these links ensure that our work is relevant and public facing.
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Our research
Research in the School of Arts & Humanities is driven by the individual concerns of academics and students. We work within an integrated research culture and our work informs every level of activity in the School.
Research collaborators
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Tate Britain
The Gulbenkian Foundation
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Art On The Underground
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Tate Britain
The Gulbenkian Foundation
Art On The Underground
Our programmes
Commission, curate and programme with London-based and national arts organisations.

MA
Understand the field of print through making, exhibiting, publishing, discussion and writing.

Fine Arts & Humanities Pathway
MRes RCA
Interdisciplinary research by practice across art and design.

Our short courses
Contemporary Art Summer School
Short course
A practice-led online introduction to the study and practice of contemporary art, structured around the development of your own self-motivated individual project with the expert guidance of Despina Zacharopoulou.

A critical introduction to curating practice and curatorial thinking in contemporary art and design.

Rethinking Contemporary Performance Art
Short course
Re-think contemporary performance art in a post Covid-19 environment, led by renowned performance artist and academic researcher Despina Zacharopoulou.

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