Introduction

Part One:Theories and Histories

Six Cultures of the PhD Around the World - James ELKINS

List of PhD Programs Around the World - James ELKINS

Researching the PhD in Art and Design: What Is It, and Why Do A PhD in Art and Design? - Judith MOTTRAM

When Management Speaks... - Charles HARRISON

Thoughts on 'Research' Degrees in Visual Arts departments - Victor BURGIN

The PhD in Studio Art Revisited - Timothy Emlyn JONES

The Artist-Philosopher and the New Philosophy - George SMITH

Singing Across Thresholds - Iain BIGGS

The Studio Art Doctorate in America - Timothy Emlyn JONES

Four Theses Attempting to Revise the Terms of a Debate - Mick WILSON

Experimental Aesthetics - Henk SLAGER

The Future of the Doctorate in the Arts - Jan BAETENS, Hilde VAN GELDER

Fourteen Reasons to Mistrust the PhD - James ELKINS

Notes in Response to the Fourteen Reasons - Judith MOTTRAM

Positive Ideas for PhD Programs - James ELKINS

Writing as Practice: Notes on Materiality of Theory for Practice-Based PhDs - Jonathan Lahey DRONSFIELD

Between Apparatus and Ethos: On Building a Research Pedagogy in the Arts - Mick WILSON

Part Two: Examples

Fritha Langerman (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Ruth Waller (School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra; MA)

Kyoko Nakamura(Tokyo Geidai)

Yuki Matsueda(Tokyo Geidai)

Maria Mencia(Chelsea College of Art and Design/ University of the Arts, London)

Phoebe von Held(University College London/ Slade School of Art)

Marcela Quiroga Garza(Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico )

Qi Zhen(Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing)

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