The art history department has an international reputation for its innovative research projects and scholarly publications within a range of art historical fields, especially Renaissance, eighteenth century, modern and contemporary art and visual culture.
Much of what we do as researchers involves producing high quality published academic outputs, especially single-authored research monographs, journal articles, edited books, exhibition catalogues and some curatorial projects. We also encourage collective and collaborative projects with academic colleagues and the museum and gallery world.
We place a high value on both individual and collaborative research activities. We aim to foster a distinctive environment for research and scholarship, and offer an extensive programme of research seminars and collaborative study days associated with major national exhibitions. The department is also involved in discipline-based and interdisciplinary research projects both within and outside the Arts Faculty. These include the Art in Theory Research Group, Artistic Networks, 1300-1550 Research Group, Byzantine Research Group, the Gender and the Humanities Research Group, the Heritage Studies Research Group, and the Material Cultures Research Group.