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Welsh School of Architecture

Postgraduate research

PhD students on a picnic

Our research degrees offer you an opportunity to work and study alongside internationally recognised academics.

Our MPhil and PhD programme relates to the School’s established reputation across all aspects of architectural research, offering you the opportunity to work closely with experts in your chosen field of study.

Our PGR community is lively, dynamic and diverse, with students from around the world exploring a wide variety of topics and questions relating to the built environment. A selection of projects representing individual works-in-progress and providing a taster of the research interests and activities in the School can be found on the MPhil/PhD pages of our summer exhibition.

Find out more about studying for a PhD or MPhil in Architecture on our Course Finder page:

A full-time PhD registration is three years (or five years part-time) and a full-time MPhil is one year (or two years part-time).

Research and Scholarship Groups

All PGR students have the opportunity to join our thematic Research and Scholarship Groups (RSGs), which sustain and support our research culture. Membership of an RSG maximises exposure to your subject area and fosters collaboration with other researchers, who mentor and nurture our research students and early career researchers.

We have five research groups:

Current supervisors and PhD students are listed on each individual RSG page under 'People.'

Careers

A research degree is excellent training for those who wish to pursue a career in research, higher education, industry or professional consultancy. It leads to the development of new knowledge and skills in their own right, but also informs teaching and makes an impact on the world beyond academia. A research degree is is confirmation that you have gained expertise in developing and employing appropriate research methods and in drawing conclusions from their results.

Contact us

For more information about postgraduate research opportunities, please contact: architectureadmissions@cardiff.ac.uk.