This programme enables students to study cultural phenomena, practices and texts at an advanced level, critically engaging with theories and methodologies of transdisciplinary cultural research.

The programme supports a range of research topics in visual and urban cultural studies, with a particular interest in:

place and memory
spatial violence and urban disintegration
post-socialist cities of Eastern Europe
visual and semiotic landscapes
materiality and spatiality of writing (graffiti, memorials and signage)
book space and architectures of reading
photography and visual knowledges
image-text-theory
forms of writing and experimental publishing
curatorial practices and multimodality in representation of research
The project will benefit from the diverse research expertise of staff from the Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture (ESALA), from the collaborative exchanges with academic colleagues and research students across the University, and a broad range of contacts with local and international research networks, cultural and heritage institutions and archives.