PhD at Arts and Cultural Studies

In the programme for Arts and Cultural Studies, the doctoral fellows regularly meet for both academic and social activities. Recurring formats include doctoral research seminars, reading sessions, methodology workshops, seminars on work practices, funding workshops, and informal Friday lunches.

In addition, the programme collaborates with the PhD School at the Faculty of Humanities as well as a range of Danish and international partners to offer a number of doctoral training courses.

At the national level, these include an annual week‑long course held at Sandbjerg Manor, organized in cooperation with Aarhus University and the University of Southern Denmark. The course Cultural Analysis Now is also offered as a nationally coordinated course.

IKK's PhD programme in practice-based art studies brings together students who are conducting research projects that include a practical element, whether in the form of their own artistic and/or curatorial work, or through their affiliation with a museum, kunsthalle, archive or other cultural institution. The group meets at least three times per semester for 'Lunch & Seminar', where discussions and exchanges are based on presentations by invited artists, university professors, curators, and museum professionals with expertise in or recent experience with practice-based PhDs. We read drafts of participants' research work and encourage discussion about both the research and writing processes.