Tate and University of Nottingham Collaborative Doctoral Partnership

Art and artistic practice in the art museum: how do these support creative learning within the primary school?

Tate and the University of Nottingham are pleased to offer a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership award, to commence 1 October 2019.

Currently Tate offers three regular forms of cultural resources to support school and teacher engagement in London: immersive professional learning for teachers; supported school visits and artist produced resources; and participation in artist-led workshops and projects. These resources provide an interconnected offer for primary schools. At present there is no in-depth research on how primary teachers take up these offers or how students benefit from each strand of activity.

To address this gap, this PhD will focus on four comparative case studies. It is anticipated that this research will inform Tate’s offer to primary schools going forward and make an important contribution to current thinking on how cultural institutions can best support schools in nurturing creative and cultural learning across the curriculum and the significance of art and artistic practice within this.

Supervision

Primary supervisor: Professor Pat Thomson (Professor of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences)
 Second supervisor: Dr Emily Pringle (Head of Research, Tate)

At Nottingham the student will benefit from Professor Thomson’s expertise in a range of research methods and in academic writing, as well as working in an environment where arts education research is a priority. At Tate the candidate will work closely with the Schools and Teachers team and programme and will have access to and benefit from the expertise of gallery learning professionals.

Further information and the application procedure can be found on the Univeristy of Nottingham's vacancy website. 

Deadline for submissions is 31 May 2019.