Manchester Metropolitan University
The MSA’s PhD programme focusses on transforming the way we think about cities and to envisage new ways of living and working. Our Research Degree students are supported by staff who possess unique and broad range of interests and expertise across theory, design, policy, and practice. Our approach is intrinsically inter- disciplinary and are open to students with interests in any aspect of architectural research including Architecture and Urbanism, Heritage, Urban and Community Resilience, Smart Cities, Adaptive re-use, Ageing in Place, Landscape Architecture, Digital arts and design.
Our students develop collaborative, inter-disciplinary methodological approaches to understanding architecture and engaging with contemporary practice in global contexts. Through this, PhD candidates build networks and relationships that will be beneficial for their future careers, whether in academia or otherwise.
MMU’s Researcher Development Programme provides research training, skills development opportunities and workshops on the various progression stages of the doctoral experience. Students are supported by seminars, exhibitions, and reviews, complemented by symposiums and student led activities.
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.