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Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London - UCAS

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2025 - 2026
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7Dec
Goldsmiths, University of London - Postgraduate Open Day
Postgraduate

Course summary

This MPhil/PhD programme is aimed at practitioners of architecture and other related spatial practices who would like to develop a sustained multi-year practice-led research project.

  • It allows you to produce intensive, rigorous, and scholarly research as well as further elaborate your own practice.
  • The programme is structured around an annual series of two-day long seminars, which take place each month during the Autumn, Winter, and Spring terms.
  • The seminars are organised as a Roundtable discussion of student research projects as they progress each year. Each of the Roundtable seminars is supplemented by invited guests who bring relevant scholarly knowledge or practices into the Centre. Student and guest presentations, along with assigned readings, provide the common conceptual ground for discussion of work and ideas.

Assessment method

Visual Cultures assessment are 100% coursework. Normally this consists of essays, sometimes accompanied by creative projects, group projects, multi-media projects, presentations, symposia, reviews, and studio work.

Entry requirements

You should normally have (or expect to be awarded) a taught Masters in a relevant subject area or equivalent. You might also be considered if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level. If English isn’t your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or equivalent English language qualification) of 6.5 with a 6.5 in writing and no element lower than 6.0 to study this programme.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

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Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London - UCAS