Postgraduate Opportunities 2021 Architecture & Landscape Architecture, Art, Design, History of Art & Music www.eca.ed.ac.uk www.eca.ed.ac.uk We’re consistently ranked one of the top 50 universities in the Top th world. We’re 20 in the 2021 QS World 50 University Rankings. TH TH 19 th 4 We're ranked 19 We’re ranked in the world's fourth in the UK most international for research power, universities‡. Since based on the 2014 2010, we have taught Research Excellence students from 160 Framework.† countries. We’re ranked in the top 10 in the UK and in the Top top 100 in the world for the employability of our 100 graduates.§ 7 TH 19 Edinburgh is ranked There are 19 Nobel the seventh best Prize winners who student city in Europe are alumni of the and 15th in the world.* University or who have been members of academic staff here. Online leader Edinburgh is one of the largest providers of online postgraduate programmes in the UK. ‡ Times Higher Education, The World's Most International Universities 2020 † Times Higher Education, Overall Ranking of Institutions § Times Higher Education, Global Employability University Ranking 2019 * QS Best Student Cities 2019 Edinburgh College of Art Postgraduate Opportunities 2021 The University of Edinburgh 01 Open to the world We’re open to the world today so we can influence the world tomorrow. The University brings people with new ideas and perspectives together in a spirit of interdisciplinary innovation and collaboration. This has already shaped the world in so many ways, from the great thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, to the discovery of the Higgs boson particle and the development of a genetically engineered vaccine for Hepatitis B. Our 21 Schools, across three academic Colleges, embody our approach. 02 02 www.eca.ed.ac.uk Edinburgh College of Art Postgraduate Opportunities 2021 The University of Edinburgh 03 About Edinburgh College of Art Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) is internationally recognised and is situated at the heart of one of Europe’s most vibrant and creative capital cities. We comprise the School of Art, the School A world-leading learning experience of Design, Edinburgh School of Architecture & As a postgraduate student at ECA, you will be Landscape Architecture (ESALA), the School able to take advantage of a vast array of of History of Art and the Reid School of Music. opportunities for interdisciplinary study and At postgraduate level we offer exciting creativity across a wide range of lectures, opportunities for collaboration across these workshops and seminars in our impressive subject areas, knowledge exchange with the studios and learning space. industrial and cultural sectors, and partnerships with local, national and international groups, Situated in the UNESCO World Heritage site of events and institutions. Edinburgh’s Old Town, ECA offers some of the largest working spaces of any UK art college, Research excellence with many of our studios enjoying We performed exceptionally well in the last uninterrupted views of Edinburgh Castle and Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014). across the city – truly, an inspiring place to Across all of our submissions, 100 per cent of begin the next stage of your creative journey. our research environment profile ratings were either 4* world leading or 3* internationally Our world-leading teaching staff will inspire you excellent. In art and design: history, practice to create work of the highest quality, in a and theory, we were ranked seventh in the cosmopolitan environment that is UK for research power (Research Fortnight stimulating, supportive, flexible and REF 2014). In music, drama, dance and challenging. We foster quality and performing arts we were ranked in the distinctiveness in our students’ work, mixing UK top 20 for both research quality and traditional skills and new technologies. research power (Research Fortnight REF 2014). We are committed to delivering a flexible, In our joint submission with Heriot-Watt imaginative education and want you to make University for architecture, built environment the most of your talents and to realise your and planning 73 per cent of our research was potential. If you want to be challenged, are ranked 4* world leading or 3* internationally passionate about your work and want to excellent on the overall quality profile. develop skills and innovative thinking, then this is the place for you. 04 www.eca.ed.ac.uk Our community With more than 800 postgraduate students at work across a vast range of subjects, in architecture and landscape architecture, art, design, history of art and music, you will experience university life as part of a supportive graduate community. Students join us from across the globe, Societies and events Students’ successes making the experience here particularly There are many student societies at Illustrations by our postgraduates have international in character. As a world-leading the University covering all of our subject been published widely in books and other research environment, Edinburgh ranked 11th areas, including a wealth of music societies. publications. Our postgraduates are also in the world for arts and humanities in the QS Subject-specific, student-run societies, encouraged to take part in national and World University Rankings by Subject 2020. such as the Edinburgh University Student international competitions, and have We have a large cohort of scholars in history Architecture Society, are open to students previously exhibited and won prizes of art, architecture, music, fine art and design. at all levels. In addition, the School of Art at Image Nation, the Association of Our staff engage in global research supports Relay, a student-run society for Illustrators Awards and the V&A Student partnerships and collaborative artistic contemporary art established by our Illustration Awards. projects that augment the international postgraduate students to develop a standing and reach of our work. We boast a programme of exhibitions, talks and The Reid School of Music hosts Tuesday lunch thriving peer group involved in diverse events, and to run their own press. hour concerts during semester time, and activities ranging from student-led Friday lunch hour organ recitals, where wide conferences and seminars to hosting musical Students make regular applications for participation is encouraged. concerts, and travelling to present at funding and exhibition opportunities as part overseas institutions; from cross-disciplinary of their studies. Many have been selected for Our film students regularly win awards project work with the Schools of major residencies, exhibitions and prizes, at international festivals as well as Royal Mathematics, Informatics or Philosophy, such as Bloomberg New Contemporaries and Television Society Awards and BAFTAs. Psychology & Language Sciences, to taking CuratorLab. Students are encouraged to join You will also have the benefit of working part in internships in the National Gallery or the Embassy Gallery, Generator Projects, alongside the Scottish Documentary the National Museum. The highly stimulating Transmission Gallery, the International Institute (SDI), with opportunities to attract environment at ECA is enhanced by visiting Association of Art Critics, the College Art international funders through SDI’s lecturers and practitioners, including artists, Association and the Scottish Artists Union. Edinburgh Pitch event, and to develop work gallerists, curators, designers, filmmakers, opportunities following graduation. One of scientists, musicians, writers and poets, Collaboration our recent graduates was shortlisted for an giving students an invaluable insight into the All our subject areas invite prominent artists, Oscar nomination. processes and concerns of other disciplines. critics, curators and scholars to deliver research seminar talks throughout the Many of our programmes, such as MA/MFA Knowledge exchange two teaching semesters. Visitors also run Art, Space & Nature, have an active exhibition With a passion for making interesting things workshops and lead critiques for our masters culture showing students’ work in Scotland happen, and a willingness to participate, staff students. For the School of Art, the Embassy and in international contexts. ESALA benefits and students at ECA share a very strong sense Gallery runs a professional development from its recently established projects office, of community. For example, the School of Art programme for our students that features which acts as a link between academic contributes to Edinburgh’s contemporary art regular guests. research, including design practice, and sector in the form of knowledge exchange external organisations. Our MSc Advanced agreements, working closely with galleries Our students of fashion and textiles benefit Sustainable Design programme includes including the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, from the successful interdisciplinary active community involvement and the Embassy Gallery, Collective, the Talbot collaborations taking place at all levels exhibitions. Our students are active in Rice Gallery, the Scottish National Gallery of both within the College and through our establishing outward-facing projects Modern Art and Deveron Arts. ECA staff relationship with the Scottish textiles and through our Agenda 25 group, which enable students to work with our partners on fashion industry. We also promote key links enables them to engage in promoting shared practical, theoretical and curatorial with National Museums Scotland and the shelter as a basic