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Architecture at University of Manchester - UCAS

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2024 - 2025
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Course summary

PhD Architecture is based within the Manchester Architecture Research Group (MARG), and looks beyond technical design to the complex processes and practices that run through the development adaptation and the use of built environments. We traverse the disciplinary boundaries of architecture and social sciences to open up new areas of architectural research, create new standards of architectural study, and craft new conceptual language to inform and influence architectural policy. Sitting within the School of Environment, Education and Development allows us to benefit from synergies with Planning and Environmental Management, Geography, and a number of other disciplines. Through the connections between these disciplines and practices, we have developed a distinctive expertise based on theoretical experimentation, methodological rigour, empirical attention, and a hands-on study of architectural practice, building technology and techniques of architectural representation and mapping. Our research themes include:

  • Architectural history and theory;
  • Networks of architectural expertise;
  • Social studies of architecture;
  • The politics of urban infrastructures.
We have specialist and research-active staff who provide a rich and stimulating environment for everyone. Many staff are practicing, or have practised, as architects and have strong links with the architecture community in Manchester and beyond. Although we welcome applications on any subject, we are particularly keen to receive research proposals on topics including:
  • Anthropology of architectural production;
  • Pragmatist turn in architecture;
  • The mobility of architectural discourse;
  • The politics of construction;
  • Transdisciplinarity in architecture;
  • Political economy of architecture.

How to apply

International applicants

This course has a subject classification which requires students whose nationality is outside the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland to have an ATAS certificate, irrespective of country of residence at the point of application.

Further information can be found on the UK Government's website: www.gov.uk/academic-technology-approval-scheme

Entry requirements

A First or Upper Second Class Bachelor's degree (or its international equivalent) and a relevant master's degree, with Merit and a minimum average grade of 60% in both the taught course units and your dissertation (or international equivalent of 60%).

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

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Additional fee information

Fees for entry in 2023 have not yet been set.

Sponsorship information

We receive money from a range of sources to help you fund your research and have a variety of awards on offer, covering tuition fees and a generous stipend, including school and departmental studentships and the President's Doctoral Scholar award . Application deadlines for internal funding opportunities are often at the beginning of February for programmes starting the following September, and many external funders have earlier application deadlines. If you're planning to apply for a scholarship or award that is not attached to a particular project, you'll normally need to hold an offer of a place from the University before applying. Search for current funding opportunities by country and research programme using our funding database search tool.

Architecture at University of Manchester - UCAS