Key information
Duration
- Full-time: 36 months (3 years full-time)
- Part-time: 72 months (6 years part-time)
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting September 2026 - Apply anytime.
- Starting February 2027 - Apply anytime.
Language
English
Delivered
On Campus
Campus Location
York, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Visual Arts; Art History
Overview
This History of Art PhD programme from University of York is ideal for students with commitments which prevent them from being resident within reasonable travelling distance of York.
Key facts:
- The university welcomes students who seek an academic career, and those who require a further professional qualification; applicants who wish to extend their art-historical interests while pursuing other kinds of employment; and those who are seeking to develop an academic interest in their retirement.
- It requires a dissertation of not more than 90,000 words, to be submitted by full-time students after a period of three years' study, by part-time students after six years of study.
- While a minimum of two weeks of attendance per academic year is required (for registration, training, meetings with the thesis advisory panel and the annual PhD conference), this programme allows students to research overseas while still receiving support and training online and by video-conferencing. Access to an internet connection and relevant library and/or archives is essential for this programme.
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Programme structure
Research areas:
- British art and architecture of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries.
- Curating contemporary art; histories of exhibition-making and art institutions; contemporary art from the Global South.
- Post-war and contemporary art history.
- The relationship between stained glass art and craft and the interactions between art history and conservation.
- British, American and European sculpture in its global contexts, c.1760-1914; queer theory; animal studies; the polar world.
- British architectural history, 1550-1900, particularly architectural drawing, the English baroque, and architecture and intellectual history.
- Early medieval / Anglo-Saxon art, the history of its study, and the area of medieval revival art.
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Admission requirements
Academic requirements
Upper Second Class (GPA)
English requirements
TOEFL iBT: 96
IELTS: 7
Other requirements
General requirements
- Applicants should have a good 2.1 or 1st-class undergraduate degree, or equivalent; applicants for the PhD should also have or be currently completing an MA degree, and we normally require an MA dissertation mark, where one is awarded, of at least 65 or equivalent (where 50 is a bare pass and 70 or above is a distinction).
- Exceptions can be made for applicants with an unusual career profile, but who have substantial related experience.
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Fees and funding
Tuition fees are shown in AUD. International tuition fees: 47,710 AUD/year (approx. 25,350 GBP/year). Domestic tuition fees: 9,858 AUD/year (approx. 5,238 GBP/year). Living costs in York, United Kingdom: 1,216-2,115 AUD/month.
