AD[A]PT: A Room of One's Own

About the project

Each year, Falmouth University invites MPhil and PhD project proposals that align with and respond to the Doctoral Project briefs.

About Doctoral Project briefs

Doctoral Project briefs are prospective research calls devised by Falmouth University staff to indicate our priority areas of research interest for research degree applicants.

Each brief considers our overarching Research & Innovation strategy and has been subsequently designed to align with one, or more, of our strategic aims. It's expected that research MPhil and PhD applicants will emphasise the link between their proposed project idea and our Research & Innovation strategy within their application.

Doctoral Project briefs are expressed in the form of challenges and have been designed to elicit a range of creative responses. In each case, it is imperative that applicants are able to demonstrate an imaginative, methodologically robust and independent response to the thematic area.

AD[A]PT: A Room of One's Own

How participatory, arts-based research in architecture, interior design and spatial planning can inf...

AD[A]PT: Open Call for Student-Led Project Proposals

The open call invites students to respond directly to: The AD[A]PT Research Vision and Shared Resear...

Celtic Crescent: Positively Dispensable and Present Abundance

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

If you have any queries about future funded project briefs, please contact:

E: pgr@falmouth.ac.uk

African Portrait Photography Archives

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

African Textile Archives

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Algorithmic Dramaturgies

We invite proposals for a PhD project exploring algorithmic dramaturgies: the temporal, affective, a...

ANIMAL/LAB

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Art + Science as Planetary Practice

This doctoral brief will examine how art-science collaborations can move beyond communication or ill...

Capturing “The Spirit of Kneehigh”

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Colliding voices

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Cozy Crime

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Creating a Destination Storyworld

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Creative placemaking

The tangible, intangible, and mixed elements of place can be explored within this brief, to animate ...

Design for active living

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Credit: Matt Jessop

Design for Healthy Ageing

This doctoral brief invites you to investigate opportunities for design to support healthy ageing ac...

Destination-making and the visitor economy

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Digital Curation and the Networked Image

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Digital Dissent

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

ENVIRO/PHOTO

Based within Falmouth’s Institute of Photography, but working with partners locally and globally, ...

Exploring the Salience of Sustainable Development

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Exploring the Transformative Potential of AI-Powered Serious Games in Education

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Fashion Responses to Wearable Haptic Technologies (‘FRWHT’)

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Folk Horror and Gothic/Crime Fiction

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Futures of Audio Storytelling

We're looking for theoretical and and practice-based doctoral project proposals which explore produc...

Games Education Landscapes

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Glitching Gender

This doctoral project will open up new critical and creative ways of thinking about the ways in whic...

Graphic Design Urgencies

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Grunts and Squeaks and Squawks

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Liveness in Audiovisual Performance

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Liveness, collaboration and sustainability in immersive audiovisual performance

This doctoral research project investigates how real-time audiovisual practices consider immersion, ...

Mixed-initiative artificial intelligence for the aquaculture industry

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Movement ecologies

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Neurodivergence in Magical Universes

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Neuroplastic Reflective Game Design (NRGD)

This research project will investigate how structured reflection in digital games can activate neuro...

Peacegaming

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Playing to Learn

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Post-Digital Poetries and Poetics

This doctoral brief calls for creative new interpretations, examinations, and performances at the fo...

Post-Immersive Futures

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Radical Ceramics and Alternative Communities

This collaborative project proposes developing a research project looking at new and diverse narrati...

Radical Localism

Radical Localism then is an inquiry into method and making, looking to utilise the scope of an allot...

Re-performing Story Archives

This doctoral proposal encourages candidates to consider the distinctive nature of Cornwall, its wri...

Work by Deborah Bunce

Re-thinking diagnosis: an artistic approach to diagnosis in mental health

The aim of this practice-led research project is to contribute to existing knowledge surrounding...

Reconstruction at a Distance

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Regenerative Economies

We invite expressions of interest for doctoral research into the evolving field of regenerative econ...

Revisioning the Mire: ‘Improving’ the valuations of wetland ecosystems

We welcome practice-based projects that examine wetlands in any region and in all conditions (e.g. i...

Right support, right place, right time

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Romance and/or Erotica

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Social Sustainability

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Surfing & Sustainability

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

The Future of Parish and Town Councils in Delivering Sustainable Development

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

The Pedagogy of Creative Writing

The tangible, intangible, and mixed elements of place can be explored within this brief, to animate ...

The Role of Cornwall National Landscapes in Supporting Sustainable Development and Regional Resilience

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

The UK’s participation in the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

Research proposals should capitalise on this crucial moment for ICH in the UK, and should pose resea...

Tourism Futures

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Virtual Study Buddy

This PhD project explores the concept of a "virtual study buddy," a digital character designed to su...

Voice, Sonic Agency and the Environment

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

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