History of Art (Research)

The MSc by Research programme is for students looking for a one-year Masters degree, who have strong research skills and wish to include a substantial research element within their study, and those who also wish to focus their interests and deepen their knowledge of a specific topic.

The History of Art department at Edinburgh College of Art provides a dynamic and supportive research environment for your MSc by Research studies.

The research topics that we can supervise include but are not limited to:

• modern and contemporary art history

• artists’ film and video

• digital culture and internet art

• medieval art history

• South Asian art history

• premodern visual and material cultures

• eighteenth-century history of art

• Islamic art

• nineteenth-century art

• curatorial theory and practice

• Scottish visual culture

• Chinese art