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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Royal College of Art- Kensington Campus
Full Time
Sep 2027
3 Year
As a research student in Design, you may be designing an innovative object or system. The Royal College of Art is home to internationally significant research, much of which is practice-based. Our teaching and research areas in Design Products, Fashion, Innovation Designing Engineering, Healthcare Design, Robotics, Service Design and Textiles represent a wide range of approaches to design research. Research topics range from those which are strongly user-focused, such as designing new medical innovations or citizen science through to those which are more experimental, such as designing trust in AI systems or multi-species design. We particularly encourage applications in our strategic design research plan areas including: The future of making; manufacture and materials; systems and design; design for safety; design for health; Intelligent machines; data capture and creation; design science and design resilience.
Home: Low residency £8,550 per year, High residency £10,450 per year.
3.5Ranked for 12 consecutive years (2015-2026) as the world's number 1 art & design university, the Royal College of Art (R...
