3-6 years
Full time/part time
Doctorate / PhD
Scholarships available
London
English

About this program

MPhil/PhD Design

We welcome enquiries from anyone who would like to carry out research in any aspect of design or in technology in education.

Current studies include:

  • Empirical Speculation and Prototyping Futures in the Refugee Crisis
  • The Housing Database Made Visible: Regenerative politics, participation and design
  • Re-scripting Organisations: Inventing the designer-in-residence
  • Curating Issues of Concern: Mediating critically engaged design
  • Making Algorithms Public: Rendering visible the operations and politics of algorithmic systems
  • Space for Boundary – Space as Place: An investigation into the design of architectural boundaries in residential mass housing, in the context of urban sustainability
  • Re-doing Patient Experience Through Design-led Research: Considering the multiplicity and ontological politics of multiple sclerosis
  • Designing the Future? How can speculation play a role in improving foresight for science and technology policymaking?
  • Making Home: Agency, precarity and the internet of things
  • Designing for Ambivalence: A designer’s exploration of the competing discourses offered by smartphones to mothers and their young children
  • Controlled Prototyping Environments: Reconceptualising location through participatory and embodied design practice
  • What's Happening? Explorations in the strategising and unfolding of free-form design events

Admission requirements

You should normally have (or expect to be awarded) a a good 2:1 or 1st class honours degree, and a taught Masters in a relevant subject area.

You might also be considered for some programmes if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level.

International qualifications

We accept a wide range of international qualifications. Find out more about the qualifications we accept from around the world.

If English isn’t your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or equivalent English language qualification) of 7.0 with a 7.0 in writing to study this programme. If you need assistance with your English language, we offer a range of courses that can help prepare you for postgraduate-level study.

For more information about admission requirements, please visit the university website.


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Scholarships & funding

Several scholarship options are available, please visit the university website for more information.

Tuition

  • Home - full-time: £4500
  • Home - part-time: £2250
  • International - full-time: £19660

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Goldsmiths, University of London

With an academic legacy dating back to 1891, Goldsmiths has a rich heritage in the arts and creative disciplines and offers degrees in subjects from the humanities and social sciences to computing and law. Students at Goldsmiths are encouraged to...


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At Goldsmiths you’ll change how you think and be inspired to develop fresh ideas and new approaches to your studies. We champion degrees that provoke thought and stretch the imagination. That’s why so many of our former students are leading the way in reshaping the sociocultural landscape on a global scale.

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Goldsmiths, University of London

8 Lewisham Way
SE14 6NW London
United Kingdom

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