Join us for study, work or visit

The University of Brighton's Centre for Design History welcomes contact with prospective student or academic members, independent researchers and representatives of organisations and institutions that engage with the history of design in its broadest most inclusive forms.

All who are interested in the designed objects, spaces, images, systems and paradigms that are produced, consumed and entangled with all human and non-human activity are welcome to join of our research seminars, symposia and conferences. We welcome proposals for engagement or collaboration, and hope that you will want to keep in touch with the centre and its activities.

A printed paper bag with pale cream capital lettering on red background, reads Design Research Bag

Design Research bag, red. Printed on site for the 50th Anniversary conference of the Design Research Society, University of Brighton, 2016.

Study for your PhD with the Centre for Design History

Our tradition of doctoral student support for design historians at the University of Brighton is exemplary, and our graduates have added to the expert staff in museums, universities and councils around the world.

As a postgraduate research student you wil be an active member of the centre with opportunities to present your work and to make beneficial networks with academics across relevant disciplines both inside and outside the University of Brighton.

For further information on our member supervisors please visit our 'Who we are' staff profiles for the Centre for Design History. We will be happy to answer any questions if you contact the centre at CentreForDesignHistory@brighton.ac.uk.

You might also like to review the general provision for postgraduate research students at the University of Brighton.

Join us as a researcher member, associate member or visiting fellow

Become a researcher member

Staff and postgraduate research students (doctoral and masters) with research interests relevant to the centre's aims, research themes and practices, and who would benefit from and contribute to our work, are welcome to join.

Become an associate member

Associate Membership is open to academics, research students, independent scholars, educationalists, activists, creative artists, local and community design historians and others who make a sustained contribution to our research areas and projects or who want an ongoing relationship to our and activities. We look forward to hearing from applicants to join on this basis.

Join us as a visiting fellow

The Centre for Design History welcomes applications from both early-career and established scholars.

Join us as Visiting Research Fellows, based in the centre for a specified period of time. Before applying, please refer to the Visiting Research Fellowship guidance through the membership application link.

Details of how to apply for membership can be found on our Centre for Design History blog site.

You can request further information by emailing centrefordesignhistory@brighton.ac.uk.

Stay in touch through digital media

We hope you will choose to stay in touch with the Centre for Design History.

Our regular blog posts will keep you up-to-date with activity across the centre. Sign up for alerts on the Centre for Design History blogs site.

Our Instagram social media account gives information and updates on our many activities and events including seminar presentations an publications.

Visit us in person

Centre for Design History

University of Brighton

Mithras House

Lewes Road
Brighton, BN2 4AT

CentreForDesignHistory@brighton.ac.uk