You will have the opportunity to study a topic which incorporates a number of established subject areas, including art history and cultural studies.<br><br>Supported by colleagues from across the Humanities disciplines with research interests in Visual Culture, we offer PhD supervision on a range of topics:<br><br>from the old masters to contemporary practitioners<br>from the traditional arts to new media and technologies<br>and from elite production to popular culture. <br>You will also be able to conduct cross-disciplinary research in collaboration with other relevant fields of study.<br><br>This programme will particularly appeal to you if you have a background or interest in<br><br>the history of art<br>cinema<br>cultural history<br>philosophy<br>sociology<br>visual culture.<br>Beyond the University we have good relations with UK museums and galleries, as well as academic and research institutions internationally, attracting research students from all over the world and many cultural backgrounds.<br><br>Our research in Art History & Visual Culture is interdisciplinary in scope. Art History & Visual Culture staff publish on the history of art, design and cultural studies. They curate exhibitions, work with a variety of arts and culture institutions, and lead major externally-funded research projects on topics as diverse as curatorial engagements with performance archives, the history of French art and its institutions, Renaissance architecture and public spaces, exhibitions and colonialism, visual cultures of health and illness, or the history of erotica and pornography.