Launching a new collaborative PhD Programme with London Contemporary Dance School at The Place
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- Written byPress Office
- Published date 23 July 2024
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Combining the efforts of 2 world-leading specialist institutions, University of the Arts London and London (UAL) Contemporary Dance School (LCDS) at The Place announce an exciting new dimension to our collaborative partnership focused on Postgraduate Research.
Building on our successful strategic partnership, this programme focuses on specialist Postgraduate Research (PhD) degrees, with the ambition to establish a cross-institutional and cross-college supervisor network, providing student-researchers with a distinctive sense of community whilst promoting dance, choreography, performance and movement research.
Offering a progression route for MA graduates and artists active or with an interest in research, the collaboration aims at building a cohort of postgraduate research students in dance and related embodied practices within a cross-arts and interdisciplinary framework. Research projects will benefit from the interdisciplinary arts research of UAL and the professional environment, advanced training and artistic research culture of LCDS and The Place.
The programme is of strategic importance to both organisations, as we seek to enrich and enhance our respective research cultures, with a shared focus on practice and experimentation, producing, art and social purpose. The PhD projects undertaken as part of this collaboration speak directly to both organisations’ strategic aims and strengthen opportunities for partnerships with other research institutions and arts organisations, including in areas of priority, such as health and wellbeing; science and technology, AI and digital innovation; social justice, equity and inclusion; sustainability and environmental studies.