The University of 麻豆果冻传媒's Centre for Design History welcomes contact with prospective student or academic members, independent researchers and representatives of organisations and institutions that engage with the history of design in its broadest most inclusive forms.
All who are interested in the designed objects, spaces, images, systems and paradigms that are produced, consumed and entangled with all human and non-human activity are welcome to join of our research seminars, symposia and conferences. We welcome proposals for engagement or collaboration, and hope that you will want to keep in touch with the centre and its activities.
Design Research bag, red. Printed on site for the 50th Anniversary conference of the Design Research Society, University of 麻豆果冻传媒, 2016.
Our tradition of doctoral student support for design historians at the University of 麻豆果冻传媒 is exemplary, and our graduates have added to the expert staff in museums, universities and councils around the world.
As a postgraduate research student you wil be an active member of the centre with opportunities to present your work and to make beneficial networks with academics across relevant disciplines both inside and outside the University of 麻豆果冻传媒.
Read more about studying for a PhD in Design History on our postgraduate research student programme pages.
For further information on our member supervisors please visit our 'Who we are' staff profiles for the Centre for Design History. We will be happy to answer any questions if you contact the centre at CentreForDesignHistory@brighton.ac.uk.
You might also like to review the general provision for postgraduate research students at the University of 麻豆果冻传媒.
Contact us regarding PhD supervision with the centre.
Staff and postgraduate research students (doctoral and masters) with research interests relevant to the centre's aims, research themes and practices, and who would benefit from and contribute to our work, are welcome to join.
Associate Membership is open to academics, research students, independent scholars, educationalists, activists, creative artists, local and community design historians and others who make a sustained contribution to our research areas and projects or who want an ongoing relationship to our and activities. We look forward to hearing from applicants to join on this basis.
The Centre for Design History welcomes applications from both early-career and established scholars.
Join us as Visiting Research Fellows, based in the centre for a specified period of time. Before applying, please refer to the Visiting Research Fellowship guidance through the membership application link.
You can request further information by emailing centrefordesignhistory@brighton.ac.uk.
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Centre for Design History
University of 麻豆果冻传媒
Mithras House
Lewes Road麻豆果冻传媒, BN2 4AT
CentreForDesignHistory@brighton.ac.uk
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