Applications
More information for applicants, professors, and policymakers on the requirements to join the PD Arts + Creative programme.
For requirements, finances and further information about the programme: read the programme report
Find all the relevant forms in the document archive
Information for Applicants
Would you like to do doctoral research in which your artistic or creative practice is an integral part? From 2022 onwards, you can apply for an Arts + Creative PD- (pilot) trajectory in the Netherlands at one of the schools participating in the pilot.
Requirements
The basic requirement is that you must have a relevant master’s degree or a validated equivalent, and preferably an active practice in the arts and design domain.
The PD programme is open to three types of candidates:
- Practicing artists and designers; and/or
- Teachers and researchers at the arts and creative schools, or in primary and secondary education; and/or
- Talented transfer students from the master programmes of these institutes
Selection
The selection of PD candidates is done by the art school to which you send your application, together with the PD Arts + Creative Graduate Network. This means the following: you send in your application directly to one of the participating institutions.
These sixteen institutions are jointly shaping the pilot for the PD programme in the Arts and Creative sector: Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU), Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (AHK), Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of the Arts The Hague, Hogeschool Rotterdam, Codarts Rotterdam, Hanze UAS, Avans Hogeschool, Buas Breda Universit of Applied Science, Fontys Academy of the Arts, Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE), Zuyd Maastricht Institute of Arts, Artez University of the Arts, Hogeschool InHolland and HZ University of Applied Sciences.
Study load and duration
The PD programme can be taken full-time (four years) or part-time; the latter with a maximum duration of eight years. During this period, PD candidates devote 75 % of their time to research, 12 ½ % to receiving instruction, and 12 ½ % to teaching.
After completion
After completion of the PD programme you should be able to perform four intertwined roles:
- as an innovator in the art and/or design practice itself and/or revises its relationship to other sectors.
- as a researcher you will be able to design and conduct methodical and transparent research that connects with and enriches the practices of the arts and design sector.
- as a change agent you will achieve change within other domains other than your own field of practice.
- as a professional you demonstrate professional reflexive and ethical capacity.
Following and completing a PD trajectory does not result in a formal degree in the pilot phase. Not yet. We expect the PD to be legally secured during the pilot phase. In addition, following and completing a PD trajectory in the pilot phase (and afterwards) can lead to a broader career perspective and career opportunities.
Information for Professors
The PD Arts + Creative is a research-intensive training program that trains highly qualified, investigative professionals in the arts and creative sector who ‘learn to intervene in complex practices’ at level 8 of the European Qualifications Framework (EQF).
Graduate Network & 16 institutions in the Arts and Creative sector
The programme is best characterised as a collective customisation, provided by the Graduate Network in conjunction with the participating Dutch art and design schools. These sixteen institutions are jointly shaping the pilot for the PD programme in the Arts and Creative sector: Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU), Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (AHK), Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of the Arts The Hague, Hogeschool Rotterdam, Codarts Rotterdam, Hanze UAS, Avans Hogeschool, Buas Breda Universit of Applied Science, Fontys Academy of the Arts, Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE), Zuyd Maastricht Institute of Arts, Artez University of the Arts, Hogeschool InHolland and HZ University of Applied Sciences.
Providing resources
All participating schools offer a local research context in which the possibility for inter- and transdisciplinary cross-fertilization exists, and an infrastructure in which (inter)national exchange is realized. In this environment, the PD candidate has access to adequate financial and infrastructural resources, as well as staff and technical support to carry out the research. The institution also gives the candidate the opportunity to teach about the candidate’s research.
Recruitment
The participating art schools are responsible for the initial recruitment and selection of PD candidates. This is done based on a research proposal (download page). The decision on the candidates formal nomination to the Graduate Network is made according to the applicable rules of the institutions involved. During the pilot period, the arts and creative professors nominate one or more PD candidates per year to the graduate committee. The number of candidates that a professor can nominate is limited by the possibilities of the institution concerned, as determined by the Executive Board of the institution.
Supervision
Supervision takes place by a supervisory committee in which two professors take on the day-to-day supervision, and in which two external professionals with relevant (international) arts, design or social practices are involved. Supervision takes place on the basis of a personal Training and Supervision Plan (download page) that defines the roles and responsibilities of the candidate, the supervisors and the institution.
Information for Policymakers
The PD Arts + Creative is a research-intensive training program that trains highly qualified, investigative professionals in the arts who ‘learn to intervene in complex practices’ at level 8 of the European Qualifications Framework (EQF).
Mono- and multisectoral art schools
A characteristic of the arts + creative sector is that practice-based research involves both interventions in its own arts and creative domain and/or a focus on other societal domains and issues. It includes creative production, design, curatorial and pedagogical practices, and this does not exhaust the list. This diversity and multidisciplinarity is also reflected in the training and research of the fifteen institutions that are jointly shaping the pilot for the PD programme in the Arts + Creative sector. It involves both monosectoral-art schools and the arts and creative studies in multisectoral schools.
The Arts + Creative PD programme does justice to the diversity in the sector. At the same time it has a clear demarcation with respect to other PD programmes and with respect to university PhD programmes in, for example, the humanities. This does not alter the fact that collaboration is possible with other PD programmes and with the universities.