Research Profiles

At BCA, research is at the centre of our pedagogy and the art practices we foster.

We see ourselves as a community of researchers and practitioners who collaborate and support each other to engage in world class artistic research. Our aims are to disseminate and publicise that research internationally and to engage with others in our fields of enquiry. Our research degrees are ‘practice based’ and our emphasis is to encourage and nurture the making of art works that emerge from the research process and further our research goals. We understand art practice to be a form of research in its own right and as a dynamic form of communication, art practice functions as a powerful tool to make public, to share and disseminate our enquiries.

Additionally, we sustain and develop partnerships across academic, cultural and artistic contexts which reflect our commitment to collaboration and supporting diverse creative cultures. These partnerships have included collaborations fostered by our research community and are documented in the texts available on this webpage. Institutional partnerships include: University of Galway, Royal College of Art, London; Glasgow School of Art and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

We welcome and celebrate the diverse scope of individual interests and practices found within our community of researchers. The following texts provide some examples of the range of artistic, philosophical and transdisciplinary enquiry our students engage with.