Design PhD

Royal College of Art

As a research student in Design, you may be designing an innovative object or system. The Royal College of Art is home to internationally significant research, much of which is practice-based. Our teaching and research areas in Design Products, Fashion, Innovation Designing Engineering, Healthcare Design, Robotics, Service Design and Textiles represent a wide range of approaches to design research. Research topics range from those which are strongly user-focused, such as designing new medical innovations or citizen science through to those which are more experimental, such as designing trust in AI systems or multi-species design. We particularly encourage applications in our strategic design research plan areas including: The future of making manufacture and materials systems and design design for safety design for health Intelligent machines data capture and creation design science and design resilience.