Manchester Metropolitan University
Our Research Degree students are supported by staff who possess unique and broad range of interests and expertise across theory, design, policy, and practice. The PhD and MA in Research programmes (MRes) are intrinsically inter- disciplinary and are open to students with interests in any aspect of architectural research spanning a wide range of subjects including Architecture and Urbanism, Heritage, Urban and Community Resilience, Smart Cities, Adaptive re-use of Buildings, Architectural Heritage, Inclusive Built Environments, Ageing in Place, Landscape Architecture, Urbanism Design innovation and design futures, Digital arts and design and Visual social media.
Our approach is interdisciplinary, researching architecture and its links to urban development, understanding technological innovation and urban change, analysing, and integrating previously disconnected research fields and stimulating collaborative, inter-disciplinary methodological approaches to understanding architecture and engaging with contemporary practice in a global context. Working across these range of research topics, students can build networks and relationships that will be beneficial for their future careers.
The Researcher Development Programme provides research training, skills development opportunities and workshops on the various progression stages of the Doctoral experience. Practice based students are supported by seminars, exhibitions, and reviews, complemented by symposiums and student led activities. Manchester Metropolitan University is a member of the Northwest Doctoral Training Consortium and students can join training and events across the region. They are other scholarship programmes available from time to time, that bring together all stakeholders to transform the way we think about cities and to envisage new ways of living and working.
Profiles of PhD students at Manchester Met
University of Manchester
PhD Architecture at the University of Manchester is based within the Manchester Architecture Research Group (MARG) and looks beyond technical design to the complex processes and practices that run through the development adaptation and the use of built environments.
We traverse the disciplinary boundaries of architecture and social sciences to open new areas of architectural research, create new standards of architectural study, and craft new conceptual language to inform and influence architectural policy.
Sitting within the School of Environment, Education and Development, and the Manchester Urban Institute, allows us to benefit from synergies with Planning and Environmental Management, Geography, and several other disciplines. Through these connections, we have developed a distinctive expertise based on theoretical experimentation, methodological rigor, empirical attention, and a hands-on study of architectural practice, building technology and techniques of architectural representation and mapping.