The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programme at SCIAD is designed to train new scholars into full command of their field of study right up to the boundaries of current knowledge and able to extend them and make a worthwhile contribution to it. In engaging with the intellectual debate in Art / Design History, Art /Design Education, Visual Arts Theory, and the corollaries of what is being discovered, debated, written, exhibited and /or published by their academic community and audience beyond their institutional and disciplinary boundaries. Research at doctoral level should enable them to advance and disseminate in-depth knowledge through the constellations that encourage interdisciplinary research and scholarship into the vanguard of intellectual inquiry.