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Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA)

Professor Judith Mottram, Director of LICA, welcomes you to Lancaster University

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Undergraduate Study

Our specialist degree courses are characterised by close links between practice and theory. We offer opportunities for an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach, which blurs traditional boundaries.

Degrees in Fine Art

Degrees in Design

Degrees in Theatre

Degrees in Film

Degrees in Architecture

Postgraduate Study

LICA offers discipline-oriented or interdisciplinary masters that blur traditional boundaries and explore links between theory and practice. We also provide opportunities to undertake doctoral study supported by world-leading researchers and active arts practitioners.

Masters Study

PhD Study

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Research

Research

LICA is committed to leading interdisciplinary and international research in contemporary arts and rigorous enquiry into the relationship between creative practice, theory and criticism.

Imagination

ImaginationLancaster is an open and exploratory design research lab which conducts applied and theoretical research into people, products, places and their interactions.

Insight

Insight is a creative research centre with disciplinary bases in Fine Art, Theatre, Film, Dance and Sound. It focuses on making meaning in the arts.

Facilities

LICA Facilities

Lancaster Arts

News

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Lancaster University students CUT/TO the chase with new film journal

This month will see the publication of the first issue of CUT/TO, a new, free, online cinema journal produced by students at Lancaster University.  
Professor Stuart Walker’s book ‘Design and Spirituality’ set against his photographic composition ‘Sacred Symbols’.

Lancaster University professor provides ‘real world’ anchor in new book

The link between design and spirituality comes under the microscope in a new book just published by a Lancaster University professor.
Two of the images from the book showing cities of the future

Capturing the curious world of future cities in pictures

Lancaster University academics Professor Nick Dunn and Dr Paul Cureton have just published research, the first of its kind, examining what our cities might look like over the next century.
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Innovative social distancing system in operation in Health Innovation One

The Health Innovation Campus is the testing site for a unique, automated, social distancing and way-finding system, devised by Lancaster University’s new School of Architecture.

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