Overview

About the programme

Our range of interests include: nineteenth- and twentieth-century design history; photography; museology; gender and representation; and interdisciplinary topics, particularly relationships between: art and film; art and anthropology; and art and medicine.

Within History of Art, research seminars and events are organised through the following Research Centres at Birkbeck, University of London:

History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
Architecture, Space and Society Centre
Eighteenth-Century Research Group
The Material Texts Network
Birkbeck Centre for Medical Humanities
Centre for Museum Cultures

Programme Structure

Recent research topics:

Canadian surrealism
Imperial exhibitions 1922-1936
Sixteenth-century Venetian art
The space of imagination: reading in French painting 1850-1900
Selling England by the pound: the Hepworth Manufacturing Company
Aesthetics and film
Gender and race in late nineteenth-century British art
Landscape 1918-1928
Modernism à la mode: women, movies and modern style
The historical documentary in post-war British television
Photographic collections compiled by women
Experiments in black and white: OP Art, Bridget Riley and Britain in the 1960s
Richard Dadd: the art of the insane
History of art in an electronic environment
Bereavement, identity and monuments
The role of media for immigration in post-war Britain (1945-1980)
Popularising high culture
Art and law

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months
Part-time
- 84 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-04-27 00:00:00

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Starting 2026-10-06 00:00:00

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Starting 2027-01-12 00:00:00

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Language

English

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Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

London, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Art History View 41 other PhDs in Art History in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Entry requirements:

Good degree, usually including history of art.
A 2000-word research proposal must be submitted with your application.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

15570 GBP / year

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Citizens or residents

5006 GBP / year

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Living costs

London

United Kingdom

1137 - 2157 GBP / month

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