Cluster for Ontologies, Ecologies and Ethics

Our new transdisciplinary research cluster for Ontologies, Ecologies and Ethics is engaged across the fields of art and film history and theory, continental philosophy, critical ecologies, plant and animal studies, environmental humanities, ethics, affect theory, critical and political theory, feminist and gender studies, colonialism, realisms, and materialisms.

Research in the cluster explores human and other-than-human ecologies; notions of nature; ontologies of media, things, matter, and bodies; and creative rather than prescriptive ethics.

It examines singular practices in relation to general theories and philosophies, and vice versa.

Research degree students

We welcome PhD applications in these areas. The cluster is associated with a fee-waving VC studentship. Candidates should be practitioners of critical thinking and ideally have a background of engagement with art or lens-based images. They should be interested in challenging theory through practice, or practice through theory.