With currently over 60 PhD students and 80 Taught Masters students (home and overseas), the School has one of the largest cohorts of architecturally based research students in the UK, reflecting its pre-eminence in the field of architectural research. Responding to growth in this area, a Graduate School has recently been formed which embraces Doctoral and Taught Masters programmes. This should strengthen links between postgraduate students and research staff to support the flourishing research culture within the School.

Our postgraduate research is intrinsically inter-disciplinary and is open to students with an interest in any aspect of architectural research. These include histories, theories, practices and politics of architecture, environmental design (lighting, acoustics and the thermal environment), sustainability and structures, design processes and user behavior, computer-aided design, emergent systems and complexity, socio-technical systems (particularly related to sustainable energy technologies) urban design and development, community design and participation, places and place-making, children´s environments, feminist approaches, and transformative education. We also encourage proposals for research by design.