At the Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) School of Art they provide a highly dynamic and supportive research environment for the large and diverse graduate community. University of Edinburgh's research students benefit from ECA’s interdisciplinary research environment, which attracts postgraduate students and researchers across the fields of art, design, music, architecture, landscape architecture and history of art.

Research in this environment is further informed by collaborative exchanges with other areas in the University’s College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, as well as the wider University (such as the School of Informatics in the College of Science & Engineering).

Their current areas of expertise include:

Art
Art and architecture
Art education
Artist-run initiatives and DIY culture
Art and anthropology
Cultural memory, trace and place
Curating
Expanded painting
Feminism and intersectionality
Folklore, ritual and superstition
Haptic experiments
Human, animal and ecological interactions
Industrial landscapes
Installation art
Lens-based (film and photography)