Global and Cross-Cultural Art

Award Award	Duration Duration	Start dates Start dates	Application Application
PhD (MPhil also available) PhD (MPhil also available)	Full-time: 3–4 years Part-time: 6–8 years Full-time: 3–4 years Part-time: 6–8 years	February and October February and October	January to April January to April

The Department of Art History has a tradition of teaching and research that explores how art, people and ideas become distinctive through their movement across the globe. This crossing of boundaries raises issues of artistic encounter and exchange across cultures. It also challenges our thinking about reuse, appropriation and expropriation, or the one-sided removal of property, particularly as acts of colonisation. The cross-global connections of art and the rise of world economies also affects our understanding of collecting museums and display.

Art, architecture, and design historians at the OU seek to re-evaluate art established art-historical methods and approaches by considering emerging concerns across the wider humanities with processes of cultural encounter, movement and conflict. A major publication in this area is the anthology, Art in Theory: The West in the World, co-edited by Professor Leon Wainwright.

We welcome applications in areas that correspond with current staff research interests.

A UK Masters’ degree or equivalent level in a relevant subject (art, architecture or design history), or exceptionally a First Class undergraduate degree with a substantial dissertation. If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your knowledge of English.

We welcome applications to study topics that complement our current research.

UK fee UK fee	International fee International fee
Full-time: £5,006 per year Full-time: £5,006 per year	Full-time: £12,705 per year Full-time: £12,705 per year
Part-time: £2,503 per year Part-time: £2,503 per year	Part-time: £6,353 per year Part-time: £6,353 per year

Some of our research students are funded via the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership; others are self-funded.

For detailed information about fees and funding, visit Fees and studentships.

To see current funded studentship vacancies across all research areas, see Current studentships.

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