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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

New and existing members of the ImaginationLancaster team who will work on the new BeyondImagination research project. Lancaster University’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) Distinguished Professor Louise Heathwaite is seen (centre) with Programme Principal Investigator Professor Leon Cruickshank (to her right) and Co-Investigator Professor Rachel Cooper (to his right)

Whole new team will put design research firmly on the global map at Lancaster University

Funded by Research England, this £13.2 million 3-year research ‘Beyond Imagination’ research project will put design research at Lancaster firmly on the global map, transforming the University’s ImaginationLancaster design team with the 33 new roles – a significant increase.
Eric Morecambe statue holding the project flyer showing a Casio watch in a pair of hands

Make sure you find the time to take part in new community artwork

It’s time...to take time and join a public art project. Lancaster University's Lancaster Arts team have commissioned ‘Taking the Time’, a project to create an imaginative new artwork, and they are appealing to the community for help.
Ollie Bradley-Baker, Hannah Ferreira and Paula Kolar - back at Lancaster University

And it all started at Lancaster University…

Three former Lancaster University Fine Art graduates, who also graduated from the Ruskin School of Art at Oxford this year, returned to their stamping ground on Tuesday to speak about their work.
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Fully Funded PhD Opportunity: Transnationalism, Mobility & Borders

This fully funded PhD provides an exciting opportunity to participate in a rich exchange of intellectual perspectives relating to the Institute’s disciplines, while focusing on the research theme “Transnationalism, Mobility & Borders”.

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