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Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA)

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For Dance, Drama & Cinematics, Complete University Guide 2018

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In the UK for Art & Design, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018

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For Communication & Media Studies, Complete University Guide 2018

Professor Judith Mottram, Head of Department, 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

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

Cities, Railways, Modernities: London, Paris, and the Nineteenth Century book front cover.

A new monograph by Dr Carlos López Galviz

Dr Carlos Lopez-Galviz, LICA Lecturer in The Theory and Methods of Social Futures, has contributed to the Routledge Advances in Urban History Series by writing 'Cities, Railways, Modernities: London, Paris and the Nineteenth Century'.
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Funding Accelerator: New Website

The HEIF funded project, The Funding Accelerator: co-design for health and wealth, has a new website.
Cityscape with Skyscrapers in Kuala-Lumpar

ImaginationLancaster is Awarded an International Grant

The project is aimed at Empowering Local Communities and Government in Malaysia in Addressing Social Issues in Ageing.
Congratulations 2018 Graduation Students

LICA Winter Graduate Prize Winners 2018

Two exemplary LICA postgraduate students, who graduated at the Winter Graduation ceremony 2018, were awarded prizes for their outstanding contribution to the postgraduate community.

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Forthcoming Events

26th Jan

LICA Applicant Visit Day

Saturday 26 January 2019, 11:00am to 4:00pm
13th Feb

Getting Through Upgrade

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
16th Feb

LICA Applicant Visit Day

Saturday 16 February 2019, 11:00am to 4:00pm

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