Design

Student PhD research in Design at the University of Brighton is embedded within an active research community whose supervisory support extends to expertise from around the university including craft and decorative arts practices, textiles, engineering and medicine in both theory and practice-based design research.

On the Design Design at the University of Brighton University of Brighton you will join an academic community whose research encompasses applied and theoretical approaches in equal measure, much of it marked by interdisciplinarity and international cooperation, through leadership and participation in major grant projects. 

Key facts

As a Design PhD student, you will:

• have a supervisory team comprising two members of academic staff. Depending on your particular area study you may also have additional supervisors from other research institutions or external partners.

• become part of an active and engaged community of research learning, leading talks, and social events with opportunities to present your work as it progresses and network with other researchers

• have access to excellent resources such as rapid prototyping and studio facilities as well as the Design Archives, which look after many leading collections related to the design profession.

Research areas include:

• Design for society

• Design futures

• Sustainable design

• Practice-based design

• Systems thinking, systemic design and cybernetics

• Design in community, society and government

• Designing sustainable urban living

• Transforming design curation

• Design methods, theory, and ethics

• Educational practices in design

• Design history and theory