Lancaster Institute for the
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Contemporary Arts (LICA)
Profile
Research Degrees Director of Institute
MPhil/PhD Professor Rachel Cooper
Taught Courses Postgraduate Enquiries
MA/PgCert in Creative Arts Consultancy tel: +44(0)1524 593056
MA in Contemporary Arts Research fax: +44(0)1524 594900
MA in Design: Management and Policy e-mail:
lica-pgadmissions@lancaster.ac.uk .lancs.ac.uk/fass/lica
.lancs.ac.uk/fass/apsocsci
MA in Professional Contemporary Arts Practice
MA in Sustainability, Innovation and Design Website
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www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/lica
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Number of Postgraduate Students
60 Location
The Round House
LICA
RAE 2008
Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (Art, Design,
Music, Theatre, New Media) is ranked in the UK top 3 with
80% of research classed as world or internationally leading.
The Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) houses
Lancaster’s postgraduate research opportunities in Computer
Music, Dance, Design (including Applied Design and Design
Management and Policy), Digital Arts, Fine Art, Live Art, Music
(including Musicology, Music Composition and Performance), and
Applied Social Science
Professor Rachel Cooper
Theatre and Performance. At either masters or doctoral level, you
Director of the Lancaster Institute for the
can focus on any one of these disciplines or you can combine them
Contemporary Arts
in any permutation. Furthermore, your research and its outputs can
be written (e.g. an academic thesis), practice-based (e.g. an
Professor Cooper is a Professor of Design and author of six
exhibition or performance), audiovisual (e.g. a DVD or website) or
books and more than 200 research papers. She is editor of The
any combination of these and other possibilities.
Design Journal and president of the European Academy of Arts and Social Sciences:
Design. She has undertaken research for the Home Office, DTI,
LICA offers an enormously rich and thriving interdisciplinary
the Design Council and a number of leading companies. She
research culture. You will reap the rewards of LICA’s creative
has recently completed a £3 million EPSRC-funded project
industry connections, for example to Lancaster’s public arts
‘Vivacity 2020 Sustainable Urban Design for the 24 Hour City’. providers (The Nuffield Theatre, the Peter Scott Gallery, and the
Her research interests cover design management, design policy, Lancaster International Concerts Series) and to the internationally
new product development, design in the built environment, renowned artists and performers who work in or who are linked to
urban regeneration, design against crime and socially- LICA, often as Creative Fellows (e.g. Rebecca Fortnum, John Fox,
responsible design.
Rebecca Prichard). You will also benefit from LICA’s research centres
and PALATINE, the national subject centre for the performing arts.
“Creativity has an important role part to play in the modern
world in terms of innovation, development and research. Our
LICA has a commitment to contemporary practice and critical
Arts and Social Sciences:
interdisciplinary approach lies at the heart of our activities.
thinking in the arts. It fosters cutting-edge research activity on
LICA offers excellent opportunities for postgraduate study -
contemporaneity, interdisciplinarity, and cross-arts practice in the
opportunities not only to cross disciplines within in the arts, but
creative arts and related industries. We are skilful in fostering
also with leading research centres within the Faculty of Arts
traditional modes of scholarship which theorise and engage with
and Social Sciences, and across the university such as the 5*
the arts and culture of the 20th and 21st centuries, or innovative
Management School, Lancaster Environment Centre and
approaches to the study of the more distant past. LICA is equally
InfoLab21. This means graduates can address any number of
distinctive in its commitment to the ‘informed practitioner’: the
cultural, societal and economic issues through their work and
in doing so illustrate the values and uniqueness of an arts-
contemporary artist who not only creates resonant works, but is
based approach to creativity.”
also able to understand their practice critically, conceptually and
historically and works both independently and collaboratively.
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