Zoe Latham PhD Architecture.
The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business is home to more than 450 postgraduate research (PGR) students working across a variety of disciplines within world-leading research environments that are critical, collaborative and inter/trans-disciplinary in their approach.
Our postgraduate research is aligned with research excellence across the creative and performing arts, design and architecture, built environment, humanities, law and social sciences, business, and education, connecting directly to real world challenges through sustainable, resilient and socially engaging methods of practice.
We train students to become research leaders and practitioners of the future with state-of-the-art facilities such as the Digital Fabrication Laboratory and the Immersive Vision Theatre among others, and studios for practice led/based research.
We work closely with the University’s Doctoral College on all regulatory matters and with other faculties across the University for collaborative supervision and research projects.
We partner externally with the wider city and globally across Higher Education Institutions (HEI) and non-HEIs, industry organisations, public institutions and charities.
The University of Plymouth’s Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business regularly administers competitive studentships, for example, via the AHRC 3D3 Centre for Doctoral Training and the Doctoral Teaching Assistantship scheme. We welcome interest and applications from across the world, locally and regionally on a full time, part time, remote (online), and integrated basis. A new ‘Low-Residency’ research degree option will soon be offered via various creative arts disciplines.
Dr Sana Murrani
Deputy Director for the Doctoral College for the Arts, Humanities and Business
The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business offers a range of programmes across ResM, PhD and Professional Doctorate routes in the following:
All research degree students will be formally registered within one of our four schools.
Your ‘home’ school is usually based on the location of your Director of Studies.
Each school has a designated academic staff member who leads the school’s postgraduate research matters.
Research students are embedded in the intellectual life of the university through several tiers of research training, including the following:
The faculty has substantial research excellence and international reputation across the disciplines of English, creative writing, history, education, contemporary arts practice, art theory and history, theatre, dance, performing arts and music, science and technology, digital arts, photography, art and technology, curatorial practice, architecture and environmental building.
With over 450 postgraduate and research students in our international partnership, the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business offers far ranging interdisciplinary research expertise, and includes The Arts Institute.
We have a strong tradition of fostering partnerships, both nationally and internationally, in support of postgraduate research.
Plymouth’s partnerships with other Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and non-HEI organisations exist at local, regional, national, and international levels. Those select partnerships listed below are of special interest for the postgraduate research training they enable, both on the Plymouth campus and elsewhere, where our students take up placements, residencies and exchanges:
Annual Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business virtual doctoral conference exclusively for PhD students
For further general information on research degrees within the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business contact artsresearch@plymouth.ac.uk.
