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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

Top-down view of four researchers assessing design research documents in the LICA Building.

Design Research Works: Funded PhD Studentship

3.5 year, fully funded PhD opportunity for UK and EU applicants, based at ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University, UK.
BFI London Film Festival Official Selection 2020 logo image.

LICA Alumni Featured at BFI London Film Festival 2020

LICA Alumni Featured at BFI London Film Festival 2020.
LICA student ambassadors outside the LICA Building.

LICA Guardian 2021 Results

LICA Guardian 2021 Results
Out of isolation came forth light: Image courtesy of Tess Baxter (aka Tizzy Canucci)

Out of isolation came forth light – art for today goes on show at major exhibitions

A Lancaster University contemporary art researcher, Tess Baxter, aka Tizzy Canucci, has been selected for several prestigious exhibitions.

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