Postgraduate research
We are well-known in this country and abroad both for our teaching and for the scope and quality of our research. You can follow a supervised programme of study for an MPhil or PhD. Our research environment supports and encourages high quality, committed and enthusiastic research students with:
- a range of research opportunities from theory and practice of information design to history of printing and the book
- a large number of successful PhDs
- all members of staff carrying out research
- a mix of students from the UK and overseas
- experienced supervisors
- varied approaches to research including practical, empirical, theoretical and historical
- excellent library facilities on our main campuses and within our Department
- outstanding collections and archives relating to typography and graphic communication
- a programme of visiting lecturers
- informal and formal links with design institutions all over the world: in Europe, the US, South America, Australia, and India
- positioned halfway between London and Oxford
- links with many organisations and institutions such as the Rare Book School in Lyon, the Information Design Association, International Institute for Information Design, Sign Design Society, Association Typographique Internationale, Printing Historical Society, Musée de l'Imprimerie (Lyons), Monotype Imaging, the Newberry Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, St Bride Library.