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Welcome to the Art & Design
Research Institute
Director - Prof
Kerstin Mey
The Research Institute Art and
Design is substantial in size with its more than sixty committed
academic staff actively engaged in research, knowledge and technology
exchange as well as teaching. The unit gained a '5'grade in the
Research Assessment Exercise in 2001 and currently ranks in the
top ten units of Art and Design in the UK. Research in Art and Design
has been designated a highest priority area by the University of
Ulster.
The expertise brought together in the Research Institute
includes and reaches beyond Fine and Applied Arts, Fashion and Textile
Design. 2d and 3d Design, Visual Communication, History and Theory
of Art and Design. Members of the Institute are also engaged in
a growing number of collaborative Teaching Company Schemes, which
facilitate technology transfer, in Knowledge Transfer Projects (KTP)
with business and industry, as well as in collaborative research
programmes in partnership with other research areas within the University
and with other UK and international institutions. Working creatively
in and with communities, engaging in consultancies, entrepreneurial
activities and advocacy complement the extensive research portfolio
of the Institute.
Core research activities are managed through Research
Sub Groups along disciplinary and thematic orientations, and through
Registered Research Groups.
Research and teaching are interrelated. A number of
Master Programmes form an integral part of the research culture.
The Research Institute has a vibrant PhD programme with currently
more than 30 students working on a diverse range of projects. Postgraduate
provisions play an important role in engendering the Institute's
'research ethos'.
For further information please contact the Director
of the Research Institute Art and Design: Prof.
Kerstin Mey
July 2006
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© 2007 University of Ulster
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