Liverpool School of Art and Design POSTGRADUATE STUDY AND RESEARCH ljmu.ac.uk Albert Dock © Pete Carr
AREA BY AREA Liverpool Life Waterfront One of the most affordable and safest student cities Come to study in this magnificentResurgent city and afteryou are too many years in the doldrums, in the UK, Liverpool is packed with attractions. guaranteed a second home forLiverpool’s life. Waterfront really is world-class. With the There’s a legendary music scene that’s bigger than And when it comes to exploring Liverpool, thanks to the Beatles; a city centre brimming with clubs, pubs, new extension to the Leeds/Liverpool canal scything our numerous cultural partnerships, you’ll have a host bars, restaurants and cafes; award-winning shopping through the Pier Head, the jaunty new Museum of of opportunities to get involved with the city’s arts facilities, museums, galleries and theatres, not to scene during your studies. WhetherLiverpool, it’s listening the scrubbedto a up Three Graces (the triptych mention two Premier League football clubs, golf classical concert in the newly refurbishedof grand buildings Philharmonic of which the Liver Building is best courses, beautiful parks and outstanding countryside Hall, watching a performance in the award-winning just a short drive away. known) and the handsome huddle of warehouses making Everyman, or visiting Tate Liverpoolup the in theAlbert Albert Dock, Dock, the city has returned to the river in as an LJMU student you will have unprecedented access to world-class attractions.style. The Dock’s museums and galleries, bars and restaurants can easily fill a half day’s exploration and, should you itch to get closer to the water you’ve a few options: you can take a ‘ferry ‘cross the Mersey’ or try your hand at canoeing (or a range of other watersports) at the Watersports Centre. Further south, the promenade walk of Riverside Drive offers great river views all the way to the pretty Festival Gardens.
18 AREA BY AREA
2 1 seven streets guide12.indd 18 08/08/2014 11:58 Welcome to the Liverpool School of Art and Design
Synonymous with cutting-edge, thoughtful practice since its inception as the Liverpool Mechanics Institute in 1825, the School of Art and Design has gone through many changes during its lifetime. Its aims, however, remain the same: developing disciplines through a strong collaboration with students; excelling in teaching and learning; embedding research and scholarship in all we do and engaging - socially and economically - with our communities.
We believe that postgraduate education is a vital stepping stone for those who want to advance their practice. This is why we offer a comprehensive suite of masters programmes across a wide spectrum of disciplines, delivered by leading academics in state- of-the-art facilities.
The postgraduate portfolio has been designed to facilitate cross-disciplinary fertilisation and collaboration, with all taught postgraduate programmes* sharing cross-school modules in both semesters.
This approach to postgraduate teaching and learning provides Albert Dock © Pete Carr a unique opportunity to mix between and learn from other disciplines. AREA BY AREA You will be offered a range of options suited to your ambitions; whether you are a practitioner, recent graduate, returner to education, or an international student. Our portfolio of courses provides plenty of opportunities to engage with other practitioners Waterfront and academics across disciplines, to foster diverse practice and Resurgent after too many years in the doldrums, build strong networks for the future. As a masters student you Liverpool’s Waterfront really is world-class. With the will have access to a dedicated masters studio, which will provide new extension to the Leeds/Liverpool canal scything you with an environment to develop creative collaborations and through the Pier Head, the jaunty new Museum of engage in a diverse range of working practices.
Liverpool, the scrubbed up Three Graces (the triptych *Apart from the MArch, which follows the professional accreditation path. of grand buildings of which the Liver Building is best known) and the handsome huddle of warehouses making Image top right: Evelyn Broderick (MAFA 2012-14), Leanagí ar aghaidh, up the Albert Dock, the city has returned to the river in 2014. Mixed medium. 5m x 1.5m x 3.5m. Installation view, Graduation style. The Dock’s museums and galleries, bars and Exhibition at Pilkingtons Glass Factory, Liverpool 2014 restaurants can easily fill a half day’s exploration and, should you itch to get closer to the water you’ve a few options: you can take a ‘ferry ‘cross the Mersey’ or try your hand at canoeing (or a range of other watersports) at the Watersports Centre. Further south, the promenade walk of Riverside Drive offers great river views all the way to the pretty Festival Gardens.
18 AREA BY AREA
3 2 seven streets guide12.indd 18 08/08/2014 11:58 4 3 Postgraduate study options QUALIFICATIONS AVAILABLE
LJMU offers a wide range of taught and research programmes delivered by academics actively involved in innovative research and ground-breaking consultancy projects. Indeed, it is this combination of academic expertise and ‘real world’ experience that helps ensure our programmes: are up-to-date, accredited by key professional bodies and deliver the knowledge, skills and experience required to achieve your professional ambitions.
Postgraduate Certificates (PgCert) and Diplomas (PgDip)
n can act as stand-alone professional qualifications n can mark interim achievements en route to a full (taught) masters qualification
Taught Masters (MA, MArch)
n builds on undergraduate knowledge and skills n can be studied 12 months full-time, with a two year part-time option often available n often enables you to select specialist optional modules based on your own interests n involves a dissertation n sometimes available for those with little/no academic experience in the subject area The MArch is a professional pathway for people Leading the way wishing to become a chartered architect. It can be studied full-time over two-years and part- time over four-years. in education Master of Research (MRes) n focuses on individual research project work n ideal if you want to pursue a research career In 2016, LJMU became the first university to receive two n provides you with an academic mentor who will become your Director of Studies commended judgements in the Higher Education Review by the should you progress to a PhD programme Quality Assurance Agency (QAA). MPhil All UK universities undergo a rigorous independent review by the QAA to check that they meet set standards. Our review saw us far exceeding the criteria, being n focuses on using appropriate research commended for the quality and enhancement of our student learning opportunities methods and techniques to conduct an and being praised for nine other areas of good practice. independent enquiry n can be completed in one to four years, The benefits of studying at LJMU were clearly outlined by the QAA. depending if you are a full or part-time The report commented on our: student
Doctorate or PhD n provision of clear expectations for students n curriculum enhancing placements n focuses on making an original, personal contribution to the understanding of a n continual development of teaching staff problem, the advancement of knowledge n work, enabling students to reach their graduate potential or the generation of new ideas n programme monitoring and improvement processes n takes between three and six years to n ability to collect and act on student feedback complete, depending on your mode of study n identification of enhancement opportunities for students n strengthening collaborative partnerships n partnerships with postgraduate research students
This ground-breaking result means that, as a future student, you can have total confidence that LJMU delivers an exceptional learning experience and ranks amongst the very best in the UK.
5 4 Why study at LJMU?
5 A global university n a user-friendly search engine to search more than 820,000 items including 650,000 printed resources, LJMU is a global university, welcoming students and staff from over 129,000 e-Books, 45,000 electronic journal titles, 100 different countries and working in collaboration with businesses, online newspapers, legal databases, company professional bodies and educational institutions from all over the world. journals and special collections We offer students and staff exciting opportunities to work, train or study overseas, encouraging them to embrace international employment opportunities. Our appetite for collaboration has created huge success World-leading research and inspired our graduates to see beyond national boundaries and cultural LJMU has a reputation for world class research. Research within the traditions. School of Art and Design is organised within ART LABS, a multi-disciplinary research centre which aims to enhance artistic research and technologies The Liverpool School of Art and Design has joint academic appointments and foster a creative learning environment. with Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, FACT and RIBA North. Through these partnerships, students have opportunities to work on projects, ART LABS focuses on the five significant themes: collaborate on exhibitions and take up residencies with partners to enhance Contemporary art; 3D digital art and applications in the real world; The uses of their research and its impact. art and cultural enrichment; Exhibitions and curatorship and Design discourse and practice. These are realised by seven distinct research groups: Face Lab; Excellent facilities Contemporary Art Lab; Exhibition Research Lab; FACT Lab; Uses of Art Lab; Design Lab and City Lab. The RIBA award winning John Lennon Art and Design Building is situated While ART LABS aims to strengthen the identity of each lab via seminars in Liverpool’s bustling Knowledge Quarter. Its bright, spacious studios and and the recruitment of research students, the Centre also recognises the learning spaces are perfect for holding lectures, seminars and symposia. need for the labs to address significant questions and methods that may Workshops provide all the equipment you need to develop your work, and overlap. each is staffed by helpful and knowledgeable technicians to ensure final Due to LJMU’s close links with employers and organisations worldwide, our outcomes meet your expectations. pioneering work has real world relevance and delivers solutions to some of The John Lennon Art and Design Building is home to: a well-stocked digital the most pressing issues facing society today. fabrication lab, which engages with the local creative community (Fab Lab We adopt a multi-disciplinary approach, encouraging collaboration with Liverpool); Mac and PC suites; a photography and new media studio; academic and business partners. Our Graduate School provides administrative comprehensive print facilities; fashion construction and extensive fabrication and training support for all research students and offers specialist induction workshops. Here you’ll also find the Exhibition Research Lab, which has sessions as well as a generic skills training programme. a full programme of original shows, focused on exploring the values of curatorial practice. Our public exhibition space on the lower ground floor To encourage new and diverse research networks across the University we is also used by students, graduates and guests to host exhibitions, events hold Research Cafés. Based on the concept of the Café Scientifique, these and shows. sessions bring together cross-Faculty academics, PhD students and early career researchers to share their expertise with each other and the general public. For more information on our research centres and institutes, see: ljmu. First class learning resources ac.uk/research LJMU has three libraries: the Aldham Robarts library at the Mount Pleasant Campus, the Avril Robarts library in the City Centre and the IM Marsh library. Employment opportunities A hub for all front-line student services, our libraries are the place to: The School of Art and Design has an excellent employability record with register and enrol, hand in your coursework, pay fees and get guidance 98% of those in full-time employment six months after graduation taking on anything related to the student experience. All libraries have Wi-Fi so up professional or managerial roles. you can work on your own device, borrow a laptop or book a PC. You can also book a space to work quietly with friends and can print, copy and Postgraduates in the School of Art and Design go on to a variety of scan items here too. careers. Recent alumni are working in roles including: Registered Architect, Project Manager, Property Developer, Building Contractor, In essence, our libraries offer: Designer, Architectural Visualisation Artist, Journalist, Artist, Designer, n 2000 study spaces - including designated postgraduate areas for Teacher, Writer, Curator, Researcher, Art Director, Studio Manager and when you need some quiet time to focus and meeting areas so Production Manager. you can collaborate in groups Potential employers in this area include: architectural practices, galleries, n helpful and friendly academic liaison librarians for each Department/ museums, fashion houses, magazines, newspapers and educational Faculty establishments. Recent graduates have gone on to work for employers n Wi-Fi access including: the British Arts Council, the British Council, Tate Liverpool, n networked PCs and access to 2000+ applications National Museum Liverpool’s World Museum, Liverpool Biennial, FACT n laptops you can borrow when you need to be out and about and Homotopia. n helpdesk and induction sessions to familiarise yourself with the resources and facilities available
“I would encourage anyone to come to LJMU to study at postgraduate level.” Mature student, Catherine Gadd 7 6 Our people Our academics have the specialist knowledge and industry insight to make a real difference to your future. Here are just some of the tutors based in the Liverpool School of Art and Design.
MARK ROUGHLEY IAN WROOT IMOGEN STIDWORTHY
Art in Science Architecture and Urban Design Fine Art
“I enjoy working collaboratively across “I enjoy all forms of studio based teaching. “Seeing a collection of individuals gather different departments. There is a buzz about My passion is project-based learning that momentum by working alongside each other, artists and scientists working together in brings a wide variety of knowledge and becoming a group with the power to bring each innovative ways. With exciting research abilities into play to explore germane lines person further than they ever expected, this is happening in research centres such as of intellectual and practical inquiry.” one of many aspects that makes working with the Face Lab, the Astrophysics Research students immensely interesting and exciting.” Ian has taught architecture in Austria, Slovenia, Institute and the Research Institute for Malaysia and Turkey and with collaborative With a degree in sculpture, Imogen went on to study Sport and Exercise, I look forward to seeing partners from Sweden, Germany, Holland, at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, where what our future collaborative outputs may Hungary, Portugal, Belgium and Greece. she started to work with the voice as a sculptural be like.” material in sound works, films and installations. Since A registered and chartered architect, Ian worked Mark graduated with a BA (Hons) in Illustration the mid-‘90’s she has been exhibiting and teaching for over 20 years in a range of multidisciplinary with Animation from Manchester School of Art internationally. Imogen has won and been shortlisted practices before forming his own design and went on to specialise as a medical illustrator, for numerous awards including the Prix de Rome company in 2001. having gained his MSc in Medical Art from (NL), Becks Futures and The Northern Art Prize. She the University of Dundee. A CAMIP registered Ian’s research focuses on the analysis of has had solo exhibitions at: Matts Gallery, London; medical illustrator, Mark has worked as a cognition in the creative process. He is The Arnolfini, Bristol and Imperial War Museum, lecturer in Medical Art at the University of interested in: cognitive bias, judgment heuristics London, amongst others, and participated in major Dundee and as a medical illustrator and digital and the validity of commonly used design quality exhibitions such as Documenta 12 (2007), Sao Paolo learning technologist. indicators. In recent years he has focused on Biennale (2014) and British Art show 8 (2016). the effective measurement and enhancement Mark specialises in visualising anatomy through Imogen joined LJMU in 2012. Her research interests of processes and practices in the briefing, CT data reconstructions, 3D modelling and focus on relationships between people who do not conceptual design and post occupancy animations. His research interests focus on CGI speak the same language. She is interested in how evaluation stages of the building design process. facial animation. to trace the different, perhaps unrecognisable forms of language and meaning which emerge, and in Impressed by the range of independent developing sensitivities, artistic tools and forms to restaurants in Liverpool when he moved here make these tangible. in 2014, Mark and a colleague have created a spreadsheet of 150 great places to eat in the city – each one rated on a scale of one to 10.
7 DR MICHAEL BIRCHALL PROF JOASIA KRYSA DR LEE WRIGHT
Exhibition Studies Exhibition Studies Design, Discourse and Practice
“Being surrounded by artists, designers, “The combination of research and curating “My core teaching role at LJMU is as a architects and scholars is highly stimulating as part of Liverpool Biennial is a wonderful contextual studies lecturer in fashion for my research and teaching. The opportunity to bind together my passions. I design and fashion communication Exhibition Studies programme allows am interested in the way academic research programmes. Being part of the creative us to offer a rich programme of lectures informs curatorial practice and vice versa, environment of the School of Art and making use of the wide range of museums and how being embedded in an arts Design makes my teaching role a dynamic and cultural venues in the city: this is both organisation such as the biennial becomes and lively experience.” enriching for staff and students.” the context for my own practice-led research, and how it offers new possibilities for Lee has taught at universities in London, Bristol Michael has held curatorial appointments in integrated curating, research, and teaching.” and Belfast and joined LJMU in 2014. She Canada and Germany, and lectured on the teaches a wide range of design-related historical Prior to taking up a post of Professor of Exhibition curating programme at the Zurich University and theoretical issues including research Research at Liverpool John Moores University with of the Arts, and acted as co-publisher of the methodologies which encompass visual and Liverpool Biennial, Joasia was Artistic Director of international journal, On Curating. Having material culture studies. She also supervises Kunsthal Aarhus in Denmark, a contemporary art worked in both museums and academia, PhD students, is a fellow of the Higher Education gallery where she developed a unique research- Michael is able to synthesize these roles with his Academy and co-director of the Design led programme of exhibitions, public events, collaborative post at Tate Liverpool, where he is commissions, publications, entitled ‘Systemics Research Lab. Curator of Public Practice. series’. She served as part of curatorial team for Lee’s research interests are concerned with the Michael’s curatorial practice and research Documenta 13, one of the largest global periodic history and theory of design from the mid-19th concerns: socially engaged art, participatory art exhibitions of contemporary art taking place century. She focuses on issues of gender, every five years in Kassel, Germany, and was co- practices, community art, exhibition histories narrative constructions in photography and the curator of Liverpool Biennial 2016. She is currently from the 1960s onwards, and new forms of popular cultural significances of fashion and an Honorary Associate Professor in Curating creative labour in the arts. dress. at Aarhus University in Denmark, where she is In his spare time Michael sings with the Royal developing a partnership between their MA in In her spare time Lee likes to discover lidos Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, and enjoys travel, Contemporary Curating and LJMU’s MA Exhibition and tidal swimming pools around the UK. Her yoga and cooking. Studies programmes. favourites include: the Trinkie, Wick, Scotland; At LSAD Joasia heads Exhibition Research Lab, the Rock Pool in Newcastle, Northern Ireland a research unit dedicated to curatorial knowledge and the heated Hathersage Pool in Derbyshire. and a public exhibitions venue.
8 MICHAEL PROF CAROLINE IAN MITCHELL
O’SHAUGHNESSY WILKINSON Graphic Design and Illustration Graphic Design and Illustration Art in Science “I particularly enjoy seeing graduates go on “I love working with high calibre colleagues “I enjoy collaborating across disciplines, to have successful careers within the creative and translating my own drawing obsessions working creatively within our purpose-built industries. I also love being able to bring some into a methodology for learning and art school and with our cultural partners to of the world’s most respected and well known development.” enhance the city for our students and the designers, illustrators and graphic artists to the general public.” university to lecture and teach our students.” Following graduation, Mike worked as an illustrator in publishing houses producing titles Director of the School of Art and Design and Before joining the Liverpool School of Art and Design, such as Vogue and Harpers and Queen. His LJMU’s Face Lab, Caroline has a background in Ian worked as an animator and multimedia designer freelance career culminated in working with art and science. Her research and creative work with multimedia visionary, Roy Stringer at Amaze Mercury Music Prize winners, Elbow on the includes subjects as diverse as: forensic art, Ltd. He was also a founding member of 1990s design and illustration of their album ‘Leaders of human anatomy, medical art, face recognition, typography collective, Beaufonts. Since becoming the Free World’ for Universal Music. forensic science, anthropology, 3D visualisation, a lecturer in 1998, Ian has exhibited and published digital art and craniofacial identification. works nationally and internationally. His films and Mike’s recent research projects have included typographic animations have been screened in New explorations of drawing and calligraphy. His Caroline received a NESTA fellowship to develop York, Seattle, San Francisco and Berlin. time is divided between illustration practice and a 3D computerised facial reconstruction system research and he has worked on large scale for use in forensic and archaeological depiction. Ian’s ongoing research explores the validity of commissioned work for the Everyman Theatre She moved to LJMU from the University of typographic experimentation – how the boundaries Liverpool and the design agency, Uniform. Dundee, where she was head of human of the typographic form have been, and still can be, identification in the award-winning Centre for expanded by moving image, interactive media and Outside of academia Mike is a regular Open Anatomy & Human Identification. Her high profile emerging technologies. Water swimmer. He has swam Llyn Padarn in facial depiction work includes facial depictions Snowdonia and Lake Windermere. Most Sunday In his free time, Ian likes to spend time with ‘Blue’ his of Richard III, St Nicolas, J.S. Bach, Rameses II mornings you can find him at Kings Dock in whippet, play competitive football in the Liverpool and Mary, Queen of Scots. Liverpool. Old Boys League and collect rare and “stupidly Outside of work, Caroline enjoys travel and has expensive” Krautrock vinyl. visited all continents except Antarctica. One of her favourite travel experiences was hang-gliding off a mountain onto a beach in Brazil.
9 KAYLA OWEN
Fashion Innovation and Realisation
“I welcome opportunities that the Postgraduate programme offers our students to collaborate across disciplines. In particular, the chance to work on live projects and our own award winning magazine UN_FOLD. This aligns students learning to industry practices and situates their own work within the context of a commercial framework”.
Kayla is a member of the International Textile and Apparel Association and Fashion Research Network and is a Fellow of the HEA. She has designed and manufactured fashion collections, shown on catwalks and exhibited 2D and 3D work locally and nationally. As a PhD candidate and practice-based researcher. Cross discipline aspects of materials, techniques and processes have been central to Kayla’s work. She is currently working predominantly with leather and non-leather. Exploring the notion of ‘Second Skin: Deconstructing the Fashion Leather Aesthetic’. Investigating the interface between new advancements in leather production, developments in garment manufacture processes and the possible impact of these on the fashion leather aesthetic we see today.
Having lived and worked abroad, Kayla is a keen traveler and plays a key role in building links with International partnership institutions, visiting and working with the Chang-Shu Institute of Technology and Shanghai University of Engineering & Science as part of the LJMU Gill Donnelly (MAFA 2014-16), untitled installation, Exhibition Research Centre, China Summer School programme. LJMU School of Art and Design, 2016 11 10 WHAT OUR STUDENTS THINK…
With an undergraduate degree in Having worked with major brand to introduce me to Professor Claire Science from the University of Colombo sportswear manufacturers, my interest Stewart. Based on my experience at in Sri Lanka and a Diploma in Textiles, lies in performance materials. During other universities, I really didn’t expect Dunila Hettiarachichi won a scholarship my time at LJMU I have developed that but I can honestly say that you to study for his masters in Fashion sports leggings which increase the never feel alone here as staff really Innovation and Realisation at LJMU. blood circulation in the lower body are behind you every step of the way, and gloves which offer extra grip for offering all the guidance you need. “My undergraduate degree was in Science sporting applications. but I was working in textile manufacturing LJMU has given me the experience so wanted a qualification to back up my LJMU offers a really warm welcome and exposure I need to take my career experience. The programme at LJMU was to international students and, when it to the next level. It is based in a very ideal and I loved the fact that the modules came to liaising with another School multicultural and student-friendly city were all about experience and practical to test my products, my programme where it is easy to make friends. I am applications relevant to your career, coordinator came with me to the very glad I came to LJMU.” rather than just writing assignments. School of Sport and Exercise Science
12 11 Art and Design Open to international students MRes
Develop your art and design research ideas, Teaching and assessment “Because of the MRes methods and skills under the guidance of expert practitioners on this MRes Art and Design offered This programme is assessed using coursework. I am now considering a by the oldest English art school outside of London. You will have to produce: seminar presentations, PhD, but ultimately I’d like conference presentations, group coursework, reflective methodologies, reports, practical to mix the practical side Why study this course at projects, evaluations, exhibition proposals, LJMU? research bids, case study analysis and a of art and academic work dissertation with approved practical work. perhaps with an artist’s Further your research and creative output in In most modules more than one piece of state-of-the-art workspaces and facilities within assessment is required. residency. The arts scene the purpose-built, RIBA award-winning John is really well developed Lennon Art and Design Building, in the heart of The final Research Project includes the Liverpool’s Knowledge Quarter. opportunity for you, where appropriate, to curate in Liverpool, and not as your own exhibition, produce a practical portfolio This programme provides you with a valuable or exhibition and submit a body of creative work. elitist as London – the foundation for progressing to PhD, while helping you develop skills in research, analysis, masters course is a conceptualisation and argument which are Graduate employment great way to access that highly prized in many areas of employment. It also offers the full range of research training Postgraduate study in the Liverpool School of network and build highly demanded by the AHRC for doctoral research Art and Design is committed to giving a voice valuable relationships with grants. You will explore subject-specific research to those with a passion for uncovering new and practices, with an ultimate view to interpreting established configurations of form. Our Art and key people working at these concepts, methodologies and debates in Design graduates are people who confidently your own final art and design project. make their own creative decisions in both major arts institutions.” research and practice. Maja Lorkowska, MRes Graduate The MRes allows the exploration and critical appraisal of individually negotiated Art and On successful completion of the programme you Design research projects. Applying a range of will be eligible to apply for PhD direct without historical, contemporary and critical processes, undergoing the normal MPhil registration and you will produce a rich and original piece of subsequent transfer application to PhD. You work. You will also acquire skills in scholarly will also be ready to embark on, or continue presentation, organisation, communication, developing, your career as a practicing artist, documentation and evaluation. designer, researcher, teacher or academic, writer or curator. The Liverpool School of Art and Design provides the freedom of a truly cross-disciplinary Previous graduates have gone on to work with: environment, fully equipped with the experts and universities nationally and internationally, the facilities that will enable you to take a project Arts Council England, the British Council, Tate from conception to its final, intended outcome. Liverpool, NML’s World Museum, Liverpool’s Our dynamic, professional and experienced staff Biennial, FACT, Bluecoat and Homotopia to excel in innovative and exciting research which, name but a few. in turn, contributes to the course’s contemporary teaching and learning methods. Study full-time over one year And when it comes to external relationships, Entry Requirements: our collaborations with organisations such as Tate Liverpool, Biennial, FACT and design A good first degree in a visual arts-related agencies Uniform, Smiling Wolf and Non- subject. Other degrees will be considered Conform are sure to benefit your academic, and non-standard applications are welcome. personal and career development. IELTS 6.5 (minimum 5.5 in each component) or equivalent. You will study the following Fees: modules: See website for details. n Research and Practice 1 Programme Leader: n Collaborative Practice n Research Proposition and Development 1 Professor Colin Fallows [email protected] n Research Proposition and Development 2 n Research Project
12 Art in Science MA Open to international students
Art and Science are often seen as two different This is a studio based programme with entities with very separate ideas of what collaborative practice and discovery at its “The Art in Science constitutes research. The MA Art in Science core. You will focus on the practical application programme facilitates programme aims to bring together artists and of art in a science context and be guided in scientists to explore collaborative approaches in understanding how this translates through a discussion and interaction unexpected forms. sequence of set and self-initiated projects. You will be encouraged to be critically aware of a between subjects that have range of international contemporary collaborative traditionally been studied in Why study this course at areas in art and science practice, and analyse isolation. This provides an LJMU? the concepts, values and debates that inform study and practice in the field. opportunity for innovation, Increasingly collaborations between artists and scientists are a feature of our cultural landscape. inspiration and critical Traditionally this relationship has been perceived You will study the following creativity, and encourages as art in the service of science, whereby modules: artists use their skills to visually interpret or students to produce n communicate complex scientific ideas, objects Research and Practice 2 - Art in Science transdisciplinary work that or forms. However, a hybrid form of research n Studio Practice - Art in Science has emerged over the last 30 years where artists may have a real world n Major Project and scientists are interested in the creative benefit to society” possibilities and speculative futures of the n Research and Practice 1 - Art in Science intersection of these two cultures. Professor Caroline Wilkinson, Director, n Collaborative Practice Liverpool School of Art and Design This programme provides an opportunity for collaborations across the visual arts and the world of scientific enquiry, and encourages Teaching and assessment transdisciplinary creativity based on the skills that you bring with you to the programme and those The programme aims to provide a balance of you develop during your research experience. opportunities for you to acquire and develop advanced skills and academic knowledge. From anatomy to algorithms, pixels to performance, science to semiotics, the Learning on the programme combines programme supports creative curiosity, in experiential elements with more formal lecture partnership with experts across the university and seminar based delivery. This is a student- and beyond. centred programme that recognises the need for you to establish a deep and inquisitive The programme has been established under relationship with Art and Science critical theories the guidance of Professor Caroline Wilkinson, and practices, the contexts within which they are Director of the Liverpool School of Art and deployed and the research against which they Design and the Face Lab. are evaluated. Professor Wilkinson is an experienced practitioner in the collaborative fields of Art and Study full-time over one year or part-time Science with a specialist interest in Forensic Graduate employment study over two years Art. Professor Wilkinson has worked with This programme aims to prepare graduates for Entry requirements: museums, forensic institutes and archaeology self-employment, or the world of work within groups around the world. Other members their chosen specialist field. It can be used in • 2:1 or above from an honours degree in a of the programme team have specialist public health, biomedical communications, related subject area. interests in Medical Art, Facial Identification, forensics, education and to engage the public • Portfolio submission. Portfolios should 3D Technologies, Critical Visual Studies, with science in a range of contexts. consist of 8-12 images of any subject in any Curatorial Practice, New Materialisms, Cultural media or written work, that demonstrate your Anthropology and Medical Humanities. Although many graduates will go on to work freelance, there are extensive career own practice and/or interest in Art/Science. As a student on this course you will explore opportunities working as: Educational • Applicants from a non-standard background art in science project briefs in unexpected Technologists within medical and dental schools or those without a related degree are forms in readiness for application in the world or for pharmaceutical companies; Public Health welcomed. of work. You will enjoy access to a number and Medical Artists; Graphic Designers and 3D of established LJMU research centres and Modelling Artists for biomedical visualisation IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 5.5 in each component). will work collaboratively with other students, companies; PhD Researchers and Research practitioners and researchers across art and Assistants; Artists in policing; Archaeological Fees: science disciplines. As a graduate you will be Visualisers and Scientific Illustrators. See website for details. able to apply critical and practical skills, research techniques and understanding in your chosen Programme Leader: career. Professor Caroline Wilkinson [email protected]
13 Contemporary Art Open to international students MPhil
Designed for artists, writers, curators and cultural Teaching and assessment practitioners, the MPhil programme enables you to develop your practice and contribute to the Following the completion of your research, the wider interdisciplinary field of contemporary art. final assessment of your MPhil will be via thesis and oral examination.
On successful completion of the MPhil, you can Why study this course at transfer to PhD study. LJMU?
The programme offers the opportunity to undertake advance research in areas relating to Graduate employment a wide range of artistic practices, critical writing, Studying for a postgraduate research degree curating and exhibitions making, in the context of enhances your employability in a number of museums and galleries, online as well as periodic ways. As well as enabling you to focus on your large scale exhibitions such as biennials. specific areas of interest and expand your subject knowledge ready for employment in your chosen The programme offers an opportunity to sector, you can take charge of your career path developed your practice in collaboration with by demonstrating your contribution to an area of our core cultural partner institutions in Liverpool: knowledge. Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, RIBA North (Royal Institute of British Architects), John Moores Some postgraduate research students are Painting Prize, and FACT – Foundation for already in full-time employment when they begin Creative Art and Technology. their studies, whilst others are recent graduates looking to extend their research capabilities and The programme is underpinned by the subject expertise. internationally distinguished research expertise of LJMU staff and visiting contributors, and a range A good proportion of our students return to their of international collaborations and partnerships. existing roles with enhanced career prospects, Contributing staff include: Professor Joasia Krysa others move on to further study or take up (Programme Leader), Dr Michael Birchall (Senior teaching roles in universities. Lecturer and Curator of Public Practice at Tate Liverpool), Dr Mark Wright (Senior Lecturer at Director of FACTLab), Dr Hanna Leaper (John Moores Painting Prize Senior Lecturer).
Research is organised thematically to bring disciplines together and exploit their methods, addressing issues with broader cultural significance. We are particularly interested in experimental and interdisciplinary approaches to Study full-time over 18 months creative practices.
Entry Requirements: Our specialist areas of interest include: Minimum 2:1 honours degree in a relevant n Contemporary Art and Design Practice, subject. Non-standard applications are n Art and Creative Technologies welcome. n Environmental Art IELTS 6.5 or equivalent. n Urban and Bio Architecture Fees: See website for details. Programme Leader: Prof Joasia Krysa [email protected]
15 14 D e s i g n , D i s c o u r s e a n d P r a c t i c e MPhil Open to international students
This distinctive MPhil supports practice-based Teaching and assessment research in a design history and related field, offering opportunities to undertake advanced A teaching schedule is individually tailored research in areas relating to a wide range of to each student. Academic supervision and design practices, design discourse and critical workshops (where relevant) support the writing. development and submission of an original written thesis.
You will be offered a range of research Why study this course at opportunities to develop design discourse and LJMU? theory research ideas, methods, skills, and practice. You will work under the supervision The programme is led by Dr Lee Wright, a of our staff whose distinguished expertise and specialist in Design History and Theory, who practice covers a range of specific fields. teaches the history and theory of fashion design and fashion communication, including fashion photography. Lee’s field of expertise spans Graduate employment material and visual culture, in particular popular culture studies. The MPhil will enable you to develop a set of lifelong transferable skills in research, analysis, As a School of Art and Design masters student, interpretation, presentation, teamwork, you will be exposed to a wide variety of research, and initiative as specifically applied to your which is organised thematically to bring disciplines investigation in your specific subject knowledge. together and exploit their methods, addressing issues with broader cultural significance. As well as enabling you to focus on your specific areas of interest and expand your subject All of our staff, including Readers and Professors, knowledge ready for employment in your chosen are involved in the day-to-day delivery of our sector, a postgraduate research qualification programmes, and we are particularly interested in enables you to take charge of your career path interdisciplinary methodologies. by demonstrating your contribution to an area of Areas of research interest include: Nineteenth knowledge. and twentieth-century design ethics and principles; Vernacular design; Sustainability, Social responsibility and product lifespan; Urban cultures and design; Cultural significance of fashion; Popular culture and design; Co-design and design cultures; Curation and exhibition practices; Design thinking; Design theory, and Archival usage and focus.
You will study the following modules: Study full-time over 18 months Your specific research-related training needs will be identified on successful application to the Entry Requirements: course. To study for an MPhil or MPhil/PhD you should Key topics include: have, or expect to obtain, a minimum 2:1 n Research methods for arts and related honours degree in a relevant subject (including interdisciplinary fields 2:1 for the written component of a practice- n Research project based programme). n Research proposition and development If you are applying you must: n Professional development for researchers in • have an undergraduate degree with a arts and related fields research dissertation in a relevant subject • have undertaken research directly or indirectly related to the proposed MPhil project Fees: See website for details. Programme Leader: Dr Lee Wright [email protected] 15 Exhibition Studies Open to international students MA
MA Exhibition Studies The Exhibition Research Lab, underpins the “The course has the right programme’s research and practice activity, the This programme is dedicated to the history and course includes a series of conferences and mix of tutorials and field theory of worldwide exhibition cultures and the sessions with visiting lectures. Contributors to visits. We recently got the development of curatorial practice and research. date have included: Lars Bang Larsen, co- You will engage with a range of topics that build curator Sao Paolo Biennial 2016; Eoin Dara, chance to visit Zurich for upon worldwide exhibition cultures. Head of Programmes, Dundee Contemporary Manifesta 11. Coming from It is suitable for any graduate of Fine Art, Art; Francesco Manacorda, Artistic Director, Art History, or other humanities discipline, and Tate Liverpool; Sally Tallant, Director, Liverpool a non-art background and those who would like to peruse a career in the Biennial; Jacob Lund and Geoff Cox, Co-directors never having studied art, the visual arts. The Contemporary Condition, Aarhus University, Juliana Engberg, Artistic Director, European teaching has made it easy Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017, Denmark and for me to get to grips and Why study this course at Koyo Kouoh, Director Raw Material Company, Dakar. build up my art knowledge. LJMU? MA Exhibition Studies is a postgraduate degree It has definitely made me that explores the notion of the exhibition, through You will study the following become more of a critical a theoretical and practical understanding of what modules: constitutes curatorial practice in the 21st century. thinker and hungry for more The programme discusses the notion of n Studio Practice (Exhibition Studies) knowledge.” contemporary art and all its manifestations in n Research and Practice 1 (Exhibition Histories) biennials, commissions, publications, conferences, n Research and Practice 2 (Research Methods) Tariq Ilyas and public programmes. n Collaborative Practice Major Project – The curriculum is specially designed to incorporate (Dissertation and Project) practical and theoretical aspects, where students are encouraged to apply their own areas of expertise and research through project-based Assessment learning. Throughout the year you will engage in a You will be assessed by: coursework, written variety of seminars, lectures and excursions that essays, reports, oral presentations, projects and make use of the cultural partnerships the university evaluations. The major project will comprise a has in the city, such as Tate Liverpool, Liverpool written dissertation or practical project (thesis Biennial, and FACT. exhibition) and a written report. In most modules The programme equips graduates to work in a more than one piece of assessment is required. variety of roles in contemporary art museums, Programme assessment seeks to replicate galleries, and in research. This is made possible professional curatorial and exhibition practice. through an engagement with exhibition histories, exhibition cultures, curatorial practice, and innovative forms of display allowing visitors to Graduate employment think about exhibitions in new ways, while working LJMU has an excellent reputation for across diverse industries and fields of practice. Study full-time over one year or part-time employability with 96% of postgraduates in full- over two years The programme has embedded academic posts time employment six months after graduation in cultural organisations in Liverpool, making it holding professional or managerial positions. Entry Requirements: a very unique post graduate experience as our Graduates of MA Exhibition Studies have gone Minimum 2:1 in an arts-related subject plus academics are both working in the School of Art on to work for major cultural institutions, including a reference. Non-standard applications are and Design and at the following organisations: The Henry Moore Institute (Leeds), British Music welcome. Tate Liverpool, Liverpool Biennial, FACT, and RIBA Experience (Liverpool), and National Museums North. This allows for joint programmes to be Liverpool. IELTS 6.5 (minimum 5.5 in each component) delivered such as talks, symposia, exhibitions, and or equivalent. the engagement with curators and researchers working in the field. Fees: Our students benefit enormously from these See website for details. links and we are proud to be linked in the Programme Leader: sector to world-leading museums and cultural organisations. Dr Michael Birchall [email protected] Core Staff: Programme Leader: Dr Michael Birchall – who holds a collaborative post with Tate Liverpool, where he is Curator of Public PracticeProf Joasia Krysa – who holds a collaborative post with Liverpool Biennial where she is Head of Research. 16 Fashion Innovation and Realisation MA Open to international students
A programme with collaborative practice Graduate employment and discovery at its core. It will enable you to expand your knowledge of fashion design or LJMU has an excellent reputation for employability communication, and contribute to the wider field with 96% of postgraduates in full-time work six of fashion through research based critical work. months after graduation securing managerial or professional roles.
Studying for a postgraduate research degree Why study this course at enhances your employability in a number of ways. LJMU? As well as enabling you to focus on specific areas of interest and expand subject knowledge ready Providing opportunities for interdisciplinary for employment within a range of related sectors experiences and collaboration with peers and within the fashion industry, including freelance and external agents, this MA aims to help define self-employment. Alternatively, there is the option your existing practice and extend its scope and for further study at PhD level, or moving into ambition. teaching roles. Learning takes place through the creative and critical exploration of research projects via a modular programme of study. A sequence of set and self-initiated projects act as a critical framework for intellectual and professional development within the context of fashion. Developing real world skills and allowing students to explore fashion, innovation and realisation project briefs in unexpected forms.
The programme is based in the purpose-built, RIBA award winning John Lennon Art and Design Building in the heart of Liverpool’s Knowledge Quarter. You will benefit from state- of-the-art workspaces and facilities, as well as external key partnerships with Tate Liverpool, Biennial, FACT and cultural organisations such as; Walker Art Gallery, Bluecoat, Baltic and Fabric District.
You will study the following modules: n Research & Practice 1 Study full-time over one year or part-time n Studio Practice over two years n Collaborative Practice Entry Requirements: n Research & Practice 2 Minimum 2:1 in an arts or fashion-related subject plus a reference and a portfolio of work. n Major Project Non-standard applications are welcome. IELTS 6.5 (minimum 5.5 in each component) Teaching and assessment or equivalent. Fees: Assessment takes place via a variety of methods including, progress review, presentation, group See website for details. critique, written and practical work. The high Programme Leader: levels of seminar and tutorial contact allows for Andrew Ibi [email protected] a considerable amount of formative assessment and feedback prior to the summative assessment for each module. Programme assessment seeks to replicate professional industry practices.
17 Fashion Studies Open to international students MPhil
Join an exciting, specialist MPhil programme, You will study the following which offers opportunities to undertake modules: advanced research in areas relating to a wide Your specific research-related training needs will range of fashion practices, fashion discourse be identified on successful application to the and critical writing. course.
Key topics include: Why study this course at LJMU? n Research methods for arts and related interdisciplinary fields You will work alongside dedicated supervisors, n Research project get involved in training workshops and seminars, and actively participate in our research n Research proposition and development environment and public events. n Professional development for researchers in In addition, the programme benefits from the arts and related fields context of a wider community of international researchers, staff, and visiting staff in the School and the University. Researchers will have access Teaching and assessment to the extensive resources at LJMU Library, A teaching schedule is individually tailored to each Special Collections and Archives (including student. Academic supervision and workshops archives of Punk, Situationist International, Liddell (where relevant) support the development and Hart book collection) amongst others. submission of an original written thesis. The School of Art and Design is organised around You will be offered a range of research strong disciplinary cultures within a dynamic opportunities to develop ideas, methods, skills, environment that supports interaction and debate and practice. You will work under the supervision between staff and students within and across of our staff whose distinguished expertise and subject areas. practice covers a range of specific fields. Areas of research of particular theoretical It is possible for the MPhil to be solely critical interest include: Fashion design and creative theory resulting in a written thesis OR a written technologies; Sustainability, social responsibility thesis with practice-based artefacts relating to the and product lifespan; Fashion and disability; critical theory. Cultural significance of fashion; Popular culture and fashion; Co-design and fashion cultures; Fashion and architecture interfaces; End user Graduate employment / user experience in the business of fashion; Curation and exhibition practices; Textiles and The MPhil will enable you to develop a set of intersections with fashion; Archival usage and lifelong transferable skills in research, analysis, focus, and Fashion and gender. interpretation, presentation, teamwork, Study full-time over 18 months and initiative as specifically applied to your You will be offered a range of research Entry Requirements: investigation in your specific subject knowledge. opportunities to develop your contemporary art To study for an MPhil or MPhil/PhD you research ideas, methods, skills, and practice. You As well as enabling you to focus on your specific should have, or expect to obtain, a minimum will work under the supervision of our international areas of interest and expand your subject 2:1 honours degree in a relevant subject staff in the School whose distinguished expertise knowledge ready for employment in your chosen (including 2:1 for the written component of and practice covers a range of specific fields. sector, a postgraduate research qualification a practice-based programme). enables you to take charge of your career path The programme of study is led by Dr Lee Wright, by demonstrating your contribution to an area of If you are applying you must: who is a specialist in Design History and Theory knowledge. • have an undergraduate degree with and in particular fashion history and theory. Her a research dissertation in a relevant field of expertise spans material and visual culture, subject in particular popular culture studies. • have undertaken research directly or indirectly related to the proposed MPhil project
Fees: See website for details. Programme Leader: Dr Lee Wright [email protected] 19 18 Fine Art MA Open to international students
A long-standing MA taught by leading artists in Our institutional partners Tate Liverpool, Liverpool Graduate employment the field, which will focus on developing your Biennial and FACT supports the programme, artistic practice and your understanding of through participating in critiques and collaborating This Masters programme is geared towards contemporary art in relation to wider social and on events and international guest lectures. We facilitating a practical understanding of how cultural contexts. collaborate with the Liverpool Biennial and place you might exploit your own practice in the your Masters exhibition within the framework of professional sphere. During your studies you will the Biennial programme. We also work closely have opportunities for networking, collaboration Why study this course at with a number of dynamic local initiatives and work-related experiences, preparing you LJMU? including MAKE Liverpool, The Royal Standard to work further as a practicing artist, for roles and CBS, to develop meaningful relationships in the cultural sector, for further research or a You will join a small group of students from a with the wider cultural context of Liverpool. combination of these. diverse range of backgrounds to develop your LJMU has an enviable reputation for employability, practice within a global context. You will benefit We believe in supporting our students after with 98% of the postgraduates in full-time work from a high level of discussion and reflection, test graduation. As well as occasional guest lectures six months after graduation, in professional or your artistic thinking, make exhibitions, events and mentoring opportunities within the School, managerial roles. The John Lennon Art and and collaborations, with core practice modules we offer two Graduate Residencies each year at Design Building is a knowledge hub for the led by artists Imogen Stidworthy and Bedwyr MAKE Liverpool, and we have strong relationships region’s creative industries: studying here will Williams. with the RCA drawing residency at Dumfries House, Scotland and Art House Residency in enable you to establish significant links with the We bring to the discussion of your work Wakefield, among others. Our students are very professional fields in which your future career will our expertise as artists with an established successful in applying for awards such as the develop. international exhibition practice. From our base in Susan Cotton Travel Award, which has allowed the shared cross-MA studio, we work in a number students to travel as far as India, South American of architecturally diverse sites across the City for and China over the past two years. For students short projects and public-facing exhibitions. We interested in undertaking a PhD, LJMU offers a see exhibition making as a medium to push your linked pathway to our practice-based doctoral practice; to take risks, experiment and hone your programme, for which limited grants are available. professional skills. We invite curators and leading artists from the UK and internationally, to join us in critiques and assessments. In many of these You will study the following projects you take the lead, with our support – modules: from scouting and negotiating sites to marketing and promotion. In doing so you are also building n Research and Practice 1 a professional network which will be invaluable to n Research and Practice 2 (Fine Art) you after you graduate. n Studio Practice (Fine Art) Lectures and seminars take place in the Liverpool School of Art and Design’s RIBA award-winning n Collaborative Practice (Fine Art) John Lennon Art and Design Building. We also n Major Project work closely with local partners such as Tate Liverpool, where we hold monthly seminars. You will have access to technical expertise and Teaching and assessment Study full-time over one year or part-time support for working in a wide range of media and over two years materials in our technical workshops, including Our expert academics have designed course the X Gallery, an exciting new digital research and delivery and assessment around contemporary Entry Requirements: research, focusing on the development of Fine production space. Minimum 2:1 honours degree. Non-standard Art practice and appreciation. We emphasise The MA offers opportunities for interdisciplinary applications are welcome. close tutorial support throughout the course, with dialogues between students across the Masters formative assessment moments and detailed IELTS 6.5 (minimum 5.5 in each component) courses taught within the School through the feedback, to ensure you are thoroughly prepared or equivalent. Research and Practice 1 and 2 and Collaborative for the summative assessments. You will be Practice modules. And we encourage exchange assessed via presentations, proposals, practical Fees: of perspectives, expertise or equipment with all projects and supporting documentation. See website for details. faculties from Astrophysics to Zoology. You will also have access to the Exhibition Research Lab, Programme Leader: a creative partnership led by the School and Rory MacBeth [email protected] Liverpool Biennial, which acts as an interface for collaboration with national and international artists, designers and public audiences.
20 19 Graphic Design and Illustration Open to international students MA
This masters seeks to challenge established Teaching and assessment “I have obtained aesthetic structures, advance your artistic development and help you become a critically Assessed work has been designed to ensure valuable experience engaged practitioner in the graphic design and you fulfil your potential at this important stage illustration industry. of your development. There is a 75:25 split during the time I was between practical and written work. doing my project for the Assessments methods include: presentations, Why study this course at proposals, practical projects, essays, artefacts, Studio practice module. LJMU? supporting documents and the dissertation. It was challenging work This popular masters programme focuses on the Research and textual material is assessed via cultural shifts at the centre of a rapidly moving blogs, written proposals and the dissertation. that made me come Graphic Design and Illustration industry. The programme will challenge established aesthetic out of my comfort zone structures, advance your artistic development Graduate employment and try techniques I and help you become a critcally engaged This masters is wholly geared towards facilitating and socially aware practitioner in the graphic a practical understanding of how you might haven’t used in my design and illustration industry. A particular exploit your own practice in the professional emphasis will be placed on challenging and sphere. You are encouraged to engage with previous practice.” exploring media as a method of developing your the networks which you are exposed to during professional practice and realising your career Erika Blediate, part-time student the course to further your employment and ambitions. career opportunities.
As a student you will develop your work in On graduation you will be able to pursue a variety state-of-the-art workspaces and facilities within of careers in the established professions of graphic the modern, purpose-built, RIBA award-winning design and illustration. You will be equipped for John Lennon Art and Design Building. The traditional roles in graphics studios and creative programmes at the School of Art and Design agencies such as Senior Designer, Art Director, are fully collaborative and we aim for cross- Studio Manager and Production Manager. disciplinary practice throughout all of our postgraduate subject areas. The programme will also prepare you for self- employment and entrepreneurial ventures - ideal The programme has close links with local for those interested in pursuing an independent creative agencies and professionals. By visiting creative practice. key graphic design industry events and hearing from experts in the field who regularly visit the School to give talks, you will be able to build a graphic design and illustration portfolio through collaborative projects with local festivals and creative ventures.
You will benefit from the tutelage of our industry networked academic team, dedicated to creating opportunities for you and the Study full-time over one year or part-time development of your projects, including over two years opportunities to present and curate your work at masters’ degree shows and exhibitions. Entry Requirements: Minimum 2:1 honours degree in a visual arts-related subject plus a reference and a You will study the following portfolio of work. Non-standard applications modules: are welcome. n Research and Practice
IELTS 6.5 (minimum 5.5 in each component) n Research and Practice 2 or equivalent. n Studio Practice Fees: n Collaborative Practice See website for details. n Discursive Practice Programme Leader: Michael O’Shaughnessy [email protected]
20 M a s te r o f A rc h i te c t u re MArch Open to international students
This masters, supported by academic and n Theory and Research 2 industry experts, invites you to creatively engage n Urban Design Project 2 “I’d come to Liverpool in a truly interdisciplinary and project-orientated architectural study. n Thesis Project to study MArch n Management Practice & Law because being based Why study this course at in the John Lennon LJMU? Teaching and assessment This long standing, nationally respected Building means not This is a project-oriented course. You will develop programme has been fully validated and externally design ideas in the studio, guided by semester accredited for over 40 years. It is an essential only do you have the tutors and, at regular intervals, by joint review step for those seeking education and a career panels of design tutors and external critics who use of good modern in architecture. will comment on your progress. The MArch focuses on sustained scholarly activity, facilities, but you also Teaching is intensive and you will learn via underpinned by the research of staff engaged one-to-one and group discussions plus regular in Urbanism and identifying the value of design get to mix with students presentations of work, so that continuous group thinking and practice in new urban contexts. It and self-assessment is built into your course. from different courses addresses questions around engagement with dwelling, health and wellbeing and public space, in The environmental, structural and constructional who can influence your a range of contexts driven by potential strategies aspects of your design projects will be assessed for designing our way into a sustainable future. in technical workshops. work.” The programme of study addresses the creative You will also need to submit: written, drawn and Dionne Barrett, graduate and Architectural and technical demands of the architectural modelled coursework submissions, a written Assistant at AT Architects profession. It is taught principally through a and illustrated dissertation, written and illustrated studio environment and informed by lectures essays and reports plus reflective statements. and workshops. We aim to create graduates with artistic flair, who are technically skilled and grounded in the demands of the architect’s role. Graduate employment While teaching the curriculum, the programme Postgraduates from this programme are highly also develops communication, presentation and sought after by employers. self-motivation skills. On graduation you will gain exemption from ARB/ As well as providing a framework of expertise for RIBA Part 2 examinations. This qualification is your studies and being located in a UNESCO essential if you want to become a registered recognised city of cultural significance, LJMU offers architect and gain Chartered status. Once you a number of overseas workshops enabling you have passed the ARB/RIBA Part 3 exams, you to undertake design work in new territories and can practice in any EU or commonwealth country contexts. Recent workshops have taken place in and many other countries outside the EU. Porto, Marseille, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Essen & Duisburg. We also have Erasmus staff and student Many of our graduates secure employment at mobility agreements with FH Joanneum University world-class practices throughout the UK and of Applied Science in Graz, Austria and Pecsi further afield. Some have remained in the city of Tudomanyegyetem, Pecs, Hungary. Liverpool, contributing to its evolution by taking key roles in leading practices that have reshaped Each year, two of our postgraduate students are the city over the last decade. Study full-time over two years or part-time put forward for the RIBA President’s Medals award, over four years and the collection of student work is published If, after graduating, you choose not to go down in a catalogue. The output from these projects is the route of becoming a registered Architect, Entry requirements: testament to the expertise of our alumni. many other careers are open to you. Past graduates have pursued successful careers as Minimum 2:2 in Architecture. Project Managers, Property Developers, Building IELTS 6.5 (minimum 5.5 in each component) You will study the following Contractors, Furniture Designers, Lighting Designers, Architectural Visualisation Artists modules: or equivalent. and Journalists. n Theory and Research Fees: n Specialist Study See website for details. n Urban Design Project Programme Leader: n Architectural Design Project Ian Wroot [email protected]
21 Urban Design Open to international students MA
Explore your creative potential and understand Teaching and assessment how its application in design can interact with, adapt and change the landscape of cities and A variety of assessment methods are used urban spaces and our experience within them. to determine ability and these differ module- by-module. Methods include: a major project proposal report, practical project work, a major Why study this course at project thesis and a personal development plan. LJMU? You will also be assessed for the quality of your drawings and model making. In a world of rapidly rising and migrating urban populations, there is a real need for smarter, more inclusive approaches to city planning, adaptation Graduate employment and spatial design. As a graduate of this programme, a number of By studying Urban Design in a resurgent, career paths will be open to you. Most aligned UNESCO recognised city of cultural significance, with your formal education is the practice of urban you can advance your skills to create spaces that design work in specialist agencies or public sector solve modern problems in cross-cultural contexts. bodies. These roles consider how structures and This studio-based programme is informed by systems function within existing landscapes and the School’s research in urbanism and close how they can be manipulated to offer the best association with the University’s European living and working solutions. Institute for Urban Affairs. Many graduates have successfully secured Over the last 20 years, the Architecture subject employment at world-class practices throughout team have collaborated with and continue to the UK and further afield, while others have work with nationally-recognised urban design remained in Liverpool contributing to its evolution practitioners, local authority planning and urban by taking key roles in leading practices that have design departments and international academic reshaped the city over the last decade. partners in the development and production of urban projects, public exhibitions and related For those interested in taking their learning to publications. These interactions ensure that the next level, this programme also offers the our programmes are cutting edge, giving you opportunity to progress to PhD study and embark the knowledge and skills required to succeed on a career teaching Urban Design. professionally on graduation.
The programme is open to applicants from a Coming Soon: wide range of first degree disciplines such as architecture, spatial design, landscape design, The Master of Philosophy in Urban environmental art, geography and planning. You and Architectural Biocycles will be based in the John Lennon Art and Design A unique research degree for artists, Building in the city’s bustling Knowledge Quarter architects, urban planners, technologists, and it is here you will develop your work in state- ecologists, biologists and transdisciplinary of-the-art workspaces, with access to first class practitioners to develop their practice and teaching facilities. contribute to the wider research agenda of Controlled Ecological Life-Support Systems through practice-led research, in partnership Study full-time over one year or part-time You will study the following over two years with the RIBA North, National Architecture modules: Centre. See ljmu.ac.uk for further details. Entry Requirements: n Research and Practice 1 Minimum 2:1 in a related subject plus a reference. Non-standard applications are n Studio Practice (Urban Design) Check website for full details and to welcome. n Research and Practice 2 (Urban Design) apply. IELTS 6.5 (minimum 5.5 in each component) n Collaborative Practice or equivalent. n Major Project (Urban Design) Fees: See website for details. Programme Leader: Ian Wroot [email protected]
23 22 Research opportunities Conduct an individual body of research alongside some of the UK’s leading arts organisations. The MPhil can be studied full-time over 12 months or part-time over up to 48 months. The PhD can be studied full-time over 36 months or part-time over up to 84 months. Research and scholarly advancement form the backbone of the Liverpool School of Art and Design, while our postgraduate community provides a thriving and supportive environment in which to study. The School works with partners to enhance Liverpool’s reputation as a city with a competitive arts economy and a great place to set up artistic practices. As Liverpool’s international flagship for cultural and creative research, ART LABS is a supported and linked collective network of artistic research and technologies, each with a team led by inspiring researchers. Each specialist Lab pursues its specific research and ART LABS, directed by Professor John Hyatt, also develops transdisciplinary projects collected under the banner of the ART LABS Heterosis Projects and a series of more contingent Pop-up Labs. ART LABS consists Contemporary Art Lab; Design Lab; Exhibition Research Lab; Face Lab; FACT Lab; Uses of Art Lab; City Lab; The Heterosis Projects. We partner with Liverpool’s art organisations, businesses and communities and collaborate with exemplary international institutions. Research focuses on Contemporary art; 3D digital art and applications in the real world; the uses of art and cultural enrichment; exhibitions and curatorship; design discourse and practice, and Transdisciplinary experimentation. ART LABS’ PhD students not only benefit from our longstanding relationships with leading galleries, museums and the creative industries in the region, they also receive training and development support as part of postgraduate research supervision. As a student you will be welcomed into our vibrant interdisciplinary research environment, have the opportunity to collaborate with creative organisations and undertake research projects with nationally and internationally recognised researchers, historians, theorists and professional practitioners. Our PhD students enjoy access to a number of conferences and symposiums, including Excessive Research – an international symposium organised by the Exhibition Research Lab. In 2015, the symposium was attended by international research students and resulted in the publication of a peer-reviewed newspaper. Similarly, architecture students organise the Architecture Society Group, which attracts acclaimed architects such as: Faustino, Space Cavier, Filip Dujardin, David Adjaye, Pernilla Orhstedt, Rachel Armstrong and Liam Young.
For more information please visit: ljmu.ac.uk/research 24 23 25 24 Inspiring Academic Excellence
Cultural partnerships engage new audiences in the City and beyond, Located at the intersection of academic Liverpool School of Art and Design has the working directly with artists. He is part of the and cultural practices across the fields of privilege of working with cultural partners in the curatorial team at Tate Liverpool and steers Tate contemporary art and curating, architecture, city of Liverpool. Unlike any other art school Liverpool’s research centre on Curatorial Practice and creative technology, our research is in the UK, these roles place research-active and Museology. He has published widely in the uniquely characterised by partnerships academics in collaboration with partners, in field of socially engaged art and this is inherently between the Liverpool School of Art and curatorial and research roles. The partnerships linked with his teaching and research at LJMU. Design and key cultural institutions in include: Liverpool and internationally. This is developed Tate Liverpool, Liverpool Biennial, RIBA Prof. Joasia Krysa holds the joint appointment through collaborative posts of key academic North (Royal Institute of British Architects), John with Liverpool Biennial, where she is Head of staff embedded within cultural partnership Moores Painting Prize, and FACT (Foundation Research. As part of her role, she has established organisations. a new line of curatorial programming that focuses for Art and Creative Technologies). We take an applied approach to knowledge on digital art projects, manifested in biennial production that is both practice-led research exhibitions and a new online commissioning and research-led practice, disseminated to programme. She is commissioning editor of an the wider public through our Exhibition Research online open access contemporary art journal: Lab gallery, events and publications. Stages. She co-curated Liverpool Biennial 2016 and is contributing curator to Liverpool Biennial The research further benefits from international 2018, a portion of which is presented in LJMU’s academic and cultural partnerships, which Exhibition Research Lab gallery. include:
Aarhus University, Denmark (Curatorial How do the cultural Exhibition Research Lab Studies, Aesthetics and Culture; Information partnerships work? The work within our cultural partnerships sits Science and Digital Design Departments); Academics spend part of their week at their directly in the Exhibition Research Lab (ERL), an Research Pavilion, Venice, University of the home cultural organisation and engage in academic research group and a public exhibition Arts Helsinki; L’Internationale Consortium practiced-based research, which allows the venue with a year-round international programme of Museums and Galleries (Moderna galerija delivery of curatorial, research, and artistic of contemporary art exhibitions, talks, events, (MG+MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia); Museo activity. fellowships, residencies and publications, related Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS, to collaborative post activities. This symbiotic relationship allows students Madrid, Spain); Museu d’Art Contemporani de and staff to be involved in the programmes ERL extends the traditional remit of an art gallery Barcelona (MACBA, Barcelona, Spain); Museum of the cultural partners and contributes to the as a site for display or pedagogical resource, to van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA, postgraduate provision in the School. an expanded gallery or ‘lab’ where experimental Antwerp, Belgium); SALT (Istanbul and Ankara, thinking and making takes place, and where Turkey) and Van Abbemuseum (VAM, Eindhoven, In recent years, this has included the co- artistic and curatorial knowledge is enacted, the Netherlands) and Association of Arte Útil, development of exhibitions, public programmes, produced and made public. (an international online/offline platform for Useful international conferences, symposia, talks Art instigated by artist Tania Bruguera). and innovative research. We are proud to be Visiting speakers, artists research visiting fellows embedded in the cultural life of the City, and in and residencies include in 2016 – 2018: Researchers bring their own multidisciplinary doing so supporting academic research and Elise Atangana; Ei Arakawa; Ryan Avent; expertise and network of cultural institutions, practice. Elmgreen & Dragset; James Charlton; Jessica which together form a dynamic transdisciplinary Coon; Geoff Cox; Meehan Crist; Eoin Dara; environment – beyond any specific disciplines or These partnerships add a rich connection to the Paul Elliman; Juliana Engberg; Marina Fokidis; narrow fields of study. We aim to bring together research and teaching culture of the School, Kristoffer Gansing; Verina Gfader; Candice the best practices of academic analysis with directly engaging postgraduate students in Hopkins; Anne Kølbæk Iversen; Lars Bang cultural practices on the ground. projects, which are otherwise inaccessible. Larsen; Jacob Lund; Raimundas Malasauskas;^ Furthermore, academic staff are actively working Francesco Manacorda; Mark Miodownik; Research themes: in their fields, which greatly enhances the Angela Nagle; Jussi Parikka; Alexander Provan; n Contemporary Curating – new forms teaching of programmes such as MA Exhibition Kuba Szreder; Terry Smith; Cornelia Sollfrank; of curatorial knowledge, curatorial Studies, MPhil Contemporary Art, MA Fine Art, Wolfgang Sützl; Sally Tallant; The Serving Library; infrastructures, computational cultures and PhD research. Suzanne Treister and Eyal Weizman. of curating, human/non-human curating, exhibition studies, exhibitions histories Case studies: Advanced collaborative n Constituent Practice – the relationship of Dr Michael Birchall holds the post with Tate research – doctoral and usership and use-value to art Liverpool, where he is Curator of Public postdoctoral level Practice. As part of his role he has curated Recognising that contemporary culture is n Archives – from repository to generative exhibitions such as the collaborative project, operating across multiple fields and sectors, models; decolonising the archive O.K. – The Musical by Christopher Kline (2017); we believe there is a need to foster new kinds n Urban /Architectural Biocycles – biological commissioned performances such as The of research practice and thinking that and technological infrastructure within the Tilting at Windmills by Alex Turegon (2018); and anticipate change. built environment convened innovative public programmes that n Digital / computational cultures and histories
25 Our core staff and expertise:
Dr Michael Birchall, Senior Lecturer, joint appointment with Tate Liverpool as Curator of Public Practice Research expertise: Socially engaged art, contemporary art, curatorial studies, creative labour and critical theory. John Byrne, Reader in Uses of Art, and Director of Uses of Art Lab, Manager and Coordinator of the L’Internationale ‘Constituencies’ Research Strand. Research expertise: 1:1 Scale Practice, Constituent Practice, the relationship of usership and use-value to art and the decolonisation of the archive.
Professor Joasia Krysa, Professor of Exhibition Research and Director of Exhibition Research Lab, joint appointment with Liverpool Biennial. Research interests: contemporary art, exhibition studies, digital culture and critical theory. Specific research interest in the emerging field at the intersection of contemporary curating and computational culture.
Dr Hana Leaper, Senior Lecturer and Development Manager, joint appointment with the John Moores Painting Prize. Research expertise: British Modernist Art, exhibition histories, middlebrow culture, digital art history, strategies for promoting women’s art; in particular the artists and writers associated with the Bloomsbury group, the Grosvenor School Linocut artists, and the John Moores Painting Prize.
Dr Vincent Walsh, Senior Lecturer, joint appointment with RIBA North, biological and technological infrastructure within the built environment;
Dr Mark Wright, Senior Lecturer and Director of FACTLAb, joint appointment with FACT; research expertise in co-design; archives.
We are now inviting postgraduate and doctoral research proposals, research fellowships, exhibition proposals, and collaborative research projects that work across these themes and areas of interests encompassing contemporary art, exhibition studies, contemporary curating, digital culture, computational culture, urban biotechnological architecture.
Images: top and second row right: Suzanne Treister, HFT The Gardner, Liverpool Biennial 2016 at the Exhibition Research Lab; second row left: ‘International Research Intensive’, organised by Exhibition Research at Research Pavilion, Venice 2017; bottom row: Exhibition Research Lab’s Talks Programme, Lars Bang Larsen, 2017 26 Student support
All LJMU students have access to a wealth of Spiritual support support services to make your time with us as Confidential, non-judgemental pastoral care and happy and fulfilling as possible. support is available for students of all beliefs “In my opinion and backgrounds. We have facilities for quiet Counselling and mental meditation, prayer and contemplation on each the support health campus, as well as dedicated space for Muslim Our free service offers one-to-one and group prayers. counselling sessions, as well as mental health on offer is guidance and support. Student advice and wellbeing Our team offer advice and guidance on issues one of the Disability ranging from health to accommodation and We have disability co-ordinators in every childcare. academic School and an on-site assessment main benefits room for those with additional needs. Study skills Workshops are available on various aspects of of studying English language support for postgraduate study, including academic writing, international students effective reading skills, exam and revision skills, at LJMU.” We provide pre-sessional English courses for report writing and IT skills. Stephen Smith, LJMU student those whose language capability does not meet entry requirements. See ljmu.ac.uk/isc for more Support for international details. students As well as a ‘meet and greet’ service when Funding you arrive in the UK, our international team Our team provide information on postgraduate will help with issues such as your visa, setting funding including loans, grants and bursaries up a UK bank account and an email address as well as offering guidance on budgeting and and registering with the police, contact: money management. [email protected]
28 27 Career guidance
Research shows that postgraduates earn, Careers support for on average, 24% more than those with an postgraduate researchers undergraduate degree. Catering for the specific needs of Postgraduate researchers, our three month ‘Your Career, Your Postgraduate study at LJMU is geared towards Choice’ programme enables you to complete meeting the needs of employers and an up to 12 interactive workshops. You will receive impressive 96% of our postgraduates are in work one-to-one career coaching as well as developing or further study six months after graduation.* practical skills in writing impactful CVs, job hunting, preparing for interviews and creating an Develop the skills you need online profile. We offer an exceptional careers support service which enables you to demonstrate to Entrepreneurship potential employers that you have the skills and If you have ambitions to be your own boss or experience they are looking for. work freelance, expert help is available from our Centre for Entrepreneurship. As well as Additional support providing mentoring services, the Centre helps Our careers centre runs regular workshops and entrepreneurs to achieve key milestones by webinars covering topics such as CV writing, offering advice on a wide range of topics including application forms, interviews, assessment access to funding. centres, psychometric testing and more. Our Faculty careers zones at Byrom Street, IM Marsh *HESA 2016 and the Aldham Robarts library host regular employer visits where you can meet, network and discuss career opportunities.
“My studies at LJMU and the help I have received from the careers team have given me the confidence to go out and work in industry, applying the knowledge and skills I have gained at LJMU.” Omer Chiyoyo Kamwena, LJMU student
29 28 Accommodation
All new LJMU students are guaranteed a room endorsed by the University no matter what your level of study. For further details of University endorsed accommodation, go to: ljmu.ac.uk/postgraduate/accommodation For details of private rental accommodation go to: liverpoolstudenthomes.org.uk
30 29 Funding your studies
An annual tuition fee is payable for all postgraduate courses, either in full at the beginning of the academic year or in instalments throughout the year. For details of full and part-time annual tuition fees, please see individual programme factfiles. You can search for your specific programme at ljmu.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate For information about loans, scholarships and bursaries to fund your postgraduate study, go to: ljmu.ac.uk/postgraduate-funding LJMU graduates will also find details of the 20% tuition fee reduction here.
31 30
Liverpool School of Art and Design John Lennon Art and Design Building 2 Duckinfield Street, Liverpool L3 5RD T: +44 (0) 151 231 5175 E: [email protected] W: ljmu.ac.uk @LJMUArts The University offers the information contained in this brochure as a general guide only to prospective postgraduate students wishing to apply for a place at the University to start a course in 2018/19. It does not constitute or form part of any contract and is not binding on prospective students, students or the University. The information in this brochure is correct at the time of going to press (June 2018) and the University hopes to provide the programmes and facilities set out in this brochure. However, some changes will inevitably occur in the interval between publication and the academic year to which the brochure relates and the University reserves the right to withdraw or make alterations to courses and facilities if necessary. Applicants should not rely solely on this brochure and should use this brochure in conjunction with the University website. 32