The Department offers a number of postgraduate programmes and each of them can be taken on a full or part-time basis. In addition to IT and research training, the department is a member of the AHRC funded RX-Network of universities that collectively offer a special programme of discipline specific training to History of Art postgraduates.

A variety of generic skills training is offered across the university. The department also offers PhD students training in the attribution of paintings and drawings, the cataloguing of collections, acquisitions for collections, and the work of commercial galleries and salesrooms.

The 2008 Research Assesment Exercise (RAE)  ranked 70% of research within History of Art as either world-leading or internationally excellent. Nationally, History of Art at Birmingham is ranked in the top ten*.

There is a thriving history of art postgraduate community at Birmingham, which offers a stimulating intellectual environment. A wide range of public lectures and seminar programmes are regularly hosted by the department, some of which postgraduates help to plan and organise. These provide opportunities to discuss art-historical questions with visiting speakers as well as to engage with the latest research of those working with in the University. Postgraduate students co-curate an exhibition at the Barber Institute annually and co-author and co-edit an accompanying catalogue.

Postgraduate Programmes Fees and Funding Current Postgraduate Research Student Profile Careers Research Facilities How to Apply

All our Postgraduates become members of the College of Arts and Law Graduate School (CALGS).  On www.alpg.bham.ac.uk Prospective students can find out more about funding opportunities, current research, career development and postgraduate life

Current students can also log on to the College Postgraduate Handbook, which contains procedures and practices, current forms and other useful information.

*Research Fortnight Power Rankings