PhD in
PhD in Design Studies Izmir University of Economics
Scholarships
Introduction
Design Studies graduate program has been established with the aim of uniting all design disciplines in order to make these more creative by interacting. The program commenced its facilities in the 2006-2007 academic year, though advanced level research in Design Studies area is needed. That is why the doctoral program of Design Studies is going to admit students in the 2013-2014 academic year for the first time.
The priority of the program is to be creative in the design field. It is aimed to make further research and acknowledge the innovational updates on environmental design, interior architectural design, industrial design, fashion and textile design, visual communication design. That is why the curriculum of the program has many options in manners of the elective courses. Students may choose related elective courses for their individual research. As soon as the courses are completed, students start to write their doctoral theses after their qualification exam and thesis proposal. Design Studies doctoral program also allows students to accomplish conjunct doctoral studies.
In the last years, there has been a rising interest in multidisciplinary studies thereby uniting varied disciplines; Design Studies doctoral program provides this multidisciplinary study pool
The students have the ability to spend a part of their educational life abroad within the scope of ERASMUS. We have exchange agreements at the graduate level with the following universities in different fields of design:
- UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE - BELGIUM
- ECOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE DES ARTS DÉCORATIFS (ENSAD) - FRANCE
- ALBSTADT-SIGMARINGEN UNIVERSITY - GERMANY
- REUTLINGEN UNIVERSITY - GERMANY
- UNIVERSITY OF THE AGEAN - GREECE
- UNIVERSITÀ DI BOLOGNA - ITALY
- POLITECNICO DI MILANO - ITALY
- WEST POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SZCZECIN - POLAND
- ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS IN WARSAW - POLAND
- INSTITUTO DE ARTES VISUAIS, DESIGN E-MARKETING (IADE) - PORTUGAL
- UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO - PORTUGAL
- ESAD- ESCOLA SUPERIOR DE ARTES E DESIGN - PORTUGAL
- UNIVERSIDADE LUSOFONA DE HUMANIDADES E TECHNOLOGIAS - PORTUGAL
- FACULTY OF DESIGN - SLOVENIA
- UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA - SLOVENIA
- SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY - UNITED KINGDOM