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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