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Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA)

1st

For Dance, Drama & Cinematics, Complete University Guide 2018

3rd

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

5th

For Communication & Media Studies, Complete University Guide 2018

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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.

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News

Becky Bowman creating some stained glass windows in her studio

Placement Year Prize Winner

Rebecca Bowman, LICA’s first BA(hons) Placement Year student, will return to finish her studies in fine art in October bearing a prize.
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Drawing Conversations 3: Drawing Talking to the Sciences

The Drawing Conversations conference will be taking place in early 2020 and will assesses the potential for drawing to make meaningful contributions to knowledge outside the arts by bringing together examples of drawing used to co-investigate. ‘Sciences’ is used in the most inclusive sense, embracing all forms of thorough investigation, spanning anthropology to physics, conservation to mathematics, forensics to zoology.
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Success! Further funding received for the Funding Accelerator project:

We are really pleased to announce that we have secured funding to continue the Funding Accelerator project until the end of September 2019.
Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts which will house the new Beyond Imagination project

New £13 million project goes Beyond Imagination in tackling world issues

Beyond Imagination, a radical £13.2 million research project announced today, will explore and demonstrate how cutting-edge design research can create a healthier, more prosperous and sustainable world.

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