Current research students
- Mahshad Afshar – Women on both side of the Camera: Representations of Women in Iranian Cinema by Women Filmmakers
- Ben Angwin – A Problem of Place: (Re)Locating The Omega Workshops into the Modernist Field of Artistic and Cultural Production
- Christine Atchison – DC Comics: Readership and Religion
- Pamela Breda (KU studentship) – "How to catch a star": the role of optical data and photographic documentation in explorations of outer space
- Helena Cuss (AHRC CDA with Ben Uri Research Institute) - Refugee Art Dealers in London 1933-1960: New Artists, Networks and Approaches
- Edward Dorrian – Working out of a contested common ground: A politics of drawing as collectivity and organisation
- Laura Elliott – The V&A and Transatlantic Exchanges in 'Modern' Art and Design: 1945-1955
- Gareth Fletcher (AHRC) – An analysis of the semiotics of provenance information in establishing symbolic and economic value for objects within the Near Eastern antiquities market
- Bruce Haines (AHRC) – What Might Alternative Methods of Supporting Artists in the Commercial Sector Look Like?
- Ayano Hattori – Memory, Narrative, and the Gaze in Japan after 1945 and 2011
- Sarah Hayward (AHRC) – John Langdon Down's Normansfield: Stories from the Archives and their Contribution to Heritage
- Marianne Keating (AHRC) – "They don't do much in the cane-hole way": Representing Caribbean Whiteness and the Irish Diaspora in Jamaica through visual and material culture
- Pirrko Koppinen – Trajectories of Museum Objects: A Study of Alexander Myyryläinen's Tannery, the Tannery's Logbook, and the Open-Air Museum of Iso-Pappila in South-Eastern Finland
- Christina Lambrou – Landscapes of Peripheral Modernism: The case of Adamantios Diamantis
- Amber Lamonby-Pennie – Cultural Production in the Digital Age: Art, Design and Fashion School Narratives
- Seoyoung Kim (AHRC) – Reinterpretation of Kingston Museum's Muybridge Collection for contemporary public engagement
- Eva Manticova – Art and the Politics of Counterculture: An Interrogation of the concept of 'influence' between the late 19th century café culture in Paris and the cabaret culture of Dada in Zurich during the Great War, 1881-1916
- Kaja Pawelak (KU studentship) – The City as Stage: Reading Poland's post-socialist transformation through art practices in (and on) public space in Warsaw
- Anna Pfautsch (KU studentship) – The Tradition of Social Documentary Photography in the GDR and it Impact on a Contemporary Documentary Photography Practice
- Matthew Richardson (AHRC) – I underline the things you should keep: The visual adaptation of the J.G. Ballard Archive
- Alice (Guo) Rui (government scholarship) – A Comparative Study of Art and Design Education in China and UK
- Charlotte Warne Thomas (AHRC) – Golden Age; On the Contemporary Agency of Gold
- Lauren Warner (university Scholarship) - A Little Duck's Nest...of Bad Words': The Sound Art and Visual Culture of Russian Futurist Books
Completed research students
- Karima Al Sholemy – An Intimate Object: A Practice-based Study of the Emirati Burqa (PhD, 2016)
- Ben Angwin (AHRC) – Pre-War Episodes of Modernism in England: An Investigation into the practices of Roger Fry and Herbert Read. (MA by Research, 2013)
- Maria Aroni (University Studentship) – The Aesthetics of Curating: Exhibition-making After the Conceptual Turn (PhD, 2017)
- Jim Backhouse (AHRC) – The ‘Collective Phantom': Convergent Networks, counterculture and the recomposition of the radical political subject (MA by Research, 2012)
- Kathryn Baird (nee Main) (AHRC) – To What Extent is there an opportunity for contemporary art consumption among London based small to medium enterprises (SMEs)? (MA by Research, 2008)
- David Cowlard – Photourbanism Documentary Photography and Urban Thinking (MA by Research, 2010)
- Ruth Debney – Personality, Patronage and Publishing: The Creative Relationships of Artist, Writer and Publisher in the Formation of Artistic Publishing in Fin de siecle London (MA by Research, 2008)
- Anthony Escott – Alan Cuthbert: Colour Theory and Practice and English Art School Change in the early 1960s (PhD, 2005)
- Lucia Farinati (University Studentship) – Audio Arts Archive: From Inventory Space to Imagined Space (PhD, 2020)
- Hazel Frizell (University Scholarship) – Representations of specific concerns of the women's liberation movement in British feminist art, 1970-1978 (PhD, 2009). Further details (PDF).
- Rebecca Fortnum – The Vision of Others: works by Rebecca Fortnum (PhD by Publication/Portfolio, 2019)
- Kit Hammonds – I Am Doing Curating Now (and Then) (PhD by Publication/Portfolio, 2019)
- Nina Holmes (University Scholarship) – State-issued Design in the 20th Century: Irish Government Health Campaigns: 1970s–1990s (PhD, 2018)
- Indre Jakucione – The Representation of Mother and Daughter Relationships in Contemporary Cinema (PhD, 2019)
- Mercy Kagia – Documenting Daily Life through Reportage Drawing (PhD, 2013)
- John Keefe – A Spectatorial Dramaturgy: Ethical Principles of Recycling, Habitus and Estrangement (PhD by Publication, 2013)
- Ellen Kirkpatrick – A Curious Tale of Transformation – The promise and perils of representing Superheroes (PhD, 2019)
- Juliette Kristensen (University Scholarship) – Writing Acts: The Rise of Mechanised Writing and the Body of Modernity, 1711 - 1905 (PhD, 2012)
- Rahat Masud – Materialising the Spiritual in Contemporary Painting in Pakistan: An Artist's Exploration of Figurative Art and Sufism (PhD, 2010). Further details (PDF).
- Rosalind McKever – Futurism and the Past Temporalities, avant-gardism and tradition in Italian art and its histories 1909-1919 (PhD, 2013)
- Katya Micallef (government scholarship) – Understanding the Context of Contemporary Visual Art in Malta from 1989 to 2018: A Curator's Perspective (PhD, 2020)
- Joana P. B. Neves (AHRC) – Following the Indexical Line: Etienne-Jules Marey, Douglas Huebler, Sol LeWitt (PhD, 2020)
- Patrick O'Neill – Investigating the 1980s Hollywood Teen Genre: Adolescence, Character, Space (PhD, 2016)
- Daniel Palmer – Exhibiting Practice: Retrospective Survey Exhibitions of Conceptual Art 1989 - 2000 (PhD, 2007)
- Mary Pearce – Colour and Communication in Twentieth Century Abstract Art (PhD, 2001)
- Alice Planel (AHRC) – Artists of Algerian origin exhibiting in France in 1989–2012: An analysis of selected artists' work and its reception – the urban, the home and the Arab woman, and the ‘global' art world (PhD, 2014)
- Ann Rau Dawes – Milein Cosman: A Critique of the Biography and Representation of the Jewish Émigré Artist 1939-1959 (MA by Research, 2013)
- Alexandra Reynolds (AHRC) – Crowdsourcing, Curating and Network Power: Towards a Critical Crowdsourced Cultural Archive (PhD, 2016)
- Michael Robinson – The Dealer System in Early 20th Century Britain (MA by Research, 2005)
- Michael Saunders – The Inward Light: Messianic Immanence and Radical Nonviolence in Henry and Laruelle (PhD, 2020)
- Yoshiko Shimada – Gendaishicho-sha BigakkÅ: Undercurrents in Japanese Art and Politics from 1960 to 1975 (PhD, 2015)
- Lina Stergiou – The Concept of the Avant-Garde in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Architecture. History, Theory, Criticism (PhD, 2015)
- Eliza Tan (University Scholarship) – Yoshiko Shimada: Art, Feminism and Memory in Japan after 1989 (PhD, 2016)
- Phillip Warnell – Anatomy of the Incorporeal (PhD by Publication/Portfolio, 2020)
- Jane Wildgoose (University Scholarship) – Collecting and Interpreting Human Skulls and Hair in Late Nineteenth Century London: Passing Fables & Comparative Readings at The Wildgoose Memorial Library. An artist's response to the DCMS Guidance for the Care of Human Remains in Museums (2005) (PhD, 2015)
- Valerie Webb – Representations of Class and Gender in Selected Paintings of London Interiors by Artists Belonging to the Camden Town Group (MPhil, 2003)
- Sarah Zaidan – The Adventures of MetaMan: The Superhero as a Metaphor for Modern Western Masculinity (1940-2010) (PhD, 2011). Further details (PDF)
- Aleksandra Zavjalova – Small voices, big narratives: Problems of remembering and identifying the Post-Soviet Space. The case of Stalinist architectural ensemble in Sillamae, Estonia (MA by Research, 2013)
See example career trajectories of former research students.