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HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design
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Doctoral Studies

HDK-Valand offers doctoral (Third-cycle) education with specialisations in Craft, Design, Film, Fine Art, Literary Composition and Photography - which we gather under the broad heading of “Artistic Practice”. We also offer doctoral studies in the subject Research on Arts Education which includes pedagogical research in the aesthetic field aimed at primary and secondary school subjects such as visual art and sloyd.

Our doctoral programmes

Doctoral Studies
Doctoral Studies: The research on arts education
Doctoral Studies
Doctoral Studies: Artistic practices

Research schools connected to HDK-Valand

National Graduate School in Visual Art and Sloyd Education
Graduate School CUL
Doctoral Studies At the Artistic Faculty

Find doctoral courses / PhD courses

See our doctoral courses
For courses in artistic subjects - sort by Artistic Faculty.

More information PhD students

Rules and regulations for third-cycle studies
Doctoral education at Academy of Music and Drama and HDK-Valand
Doctoral (PhD) student at the University of Gothenburg
ArtMonitor's dissertation series
Dissertations from the Artistic Faculty
Senior research at HDK-Valand
The University of Gothenburg is the only Swedish university with practice-based research spanning the arts from design,…
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