Within the framework of the research assignment for Zurich University of the Arts, the Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts (ICS) provides support and funding for dissertation projects.
The professors at the ICS, Sigrid Schade and Sigrid Adorf, are supervising scientific and scientific-artistic dissertation projects in cooperation with the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (University of Fine Arts, Hamburg), the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the University of Applied Art Vienna and the University of Zurich. Professor Dorothee Richter is the Co-Director of the practice-based Research Program PhD in Practice in Curating which is offered in cooperation with the University of Reading (UK), which is offered in cooperation with the University of Reading in the UK. The Z-Node PhD programme introduced in 2004 offered researchers the opportunity to obtain a doctorate through a course of study conducted in cooperation with the University of Plymouth in the UK. This programme was discontinued at the beginning of 2016 after its Director, Jill Scott, was named Emeritus Professor.
The ICS allows a limited number of interested doctoral students to conduct their dissertation projects within the framework of the Zeichenwerkstatt (Drawing Workshop) research group.
Requirements
In its capacity as a member of the Zürcher Fachhochschule network, Zurich University of the Arts has not yet been issued the right to award doctorates. Dissertation projects can therefore only be carried out in cooperation with other universities that possess such a right. The PhD regulations of the partner university in question apply here.
The ICS can only supervise dissertations on topics that relate to the research focus addressed at the ICS. Along with personal supervision, the ICS also offers periodic exchanges and networking opportunities through the current study workshops/platforms mentioned above (Zeichenwerkstatt, Research Platform for Curatorial Studies and Cross-Disciplinary Cultural Studies/Reading).
Requests for supervision of projects can be submitted to the above-mentioned professors.