Student PhD research in design at the University of Brighton is embedded within an active research community whose supervisory support extends to expertise from around the university including craft and decorative arts practices, textiles, engineering and medicine in both theory and practice-based design research.
You will join an academic community whose research encompasses applied and theoretical approaches in equal measure, much of it marked by interdisciplinarity and international cooperation, through leadership and participation in major grant projects.
We have nurtured research students through to successful careers, with Design PhD projects in Brighton that have included: sustainable design, design for health and wellbeing, product design, contemporary textiles and digital user-experience.
October 2025
University of Brighton
Mithras House,
Lewes Road,
Brighton,
Brighton & Hove,
BN2 4AT, SOUTHERN ENGLAND, England
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.