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A PhD seminar at NCAD where researchers discuss their work with peers (2005)

A group of MFA students responding to an exhibition of postgraduate work in the Digital Hub (2006)

A group of MA Art in the Contemporary World students attend a seminar by artist Jay Koh (2006)

NCAD Research Environment

Research Environment

NCAD seeks to offer a research environment that expands the frontiers of practice, knowledge, understanding, enquiry and debate in relation to the broad domains of art and design, visual and material culture, art and design pedagogy, creative technologies and the critical, theoretical and historical investigation of cultural practices, processes, institutions and products.

The foundation for the rich multi-disciplinary research environment at NCAD is the professional activity and output of leading national and international practitioners across a wide range of disciplines. Although many of our domains and practices have not typically been associated with notions of research, the definition of research asserted in the international standard reference tool for research and development measurement, the OECD Frascati Manual (first edition 1963), provides a framework for understanding research that accommodates the specificity of the knowledge domain of art and design practice:

creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications.

A roadmap for delivery against NCAD’s ambitions and research potential is outlined in the Research Strategy 2007-2011, and overseen by NCAD’s Research Committee in collaboration with the Head of Research and Postgraduate Development.

Contact

If you have specific questions about postgraduate applications please contact the Admissions Office at:

• Phone: 353 (0)1 6364200
• Fax: 353 (0)1 6364207
• E-mail: fios@ncad.ie

Office Hours 9:30-12:45 and 14:00-17:00.

[The Admissions Office is closed to the public on Friday afternoons.]

If you have more general questions about postgraduate study at NCAD please contact: postgraduate@ncad.ie