Research-creation doctorate
For its third cycle, Ensad is partnering with the University of Limoges to offer a research-creation doctorate focused on ceramics.
In 2026, Ensad will select one or two applications whose project includes a strong practice of ceramics and whose research topic falls within one or more of the school's research areas:
- Images & Imaginations
- Traditional gestures / innovative gestures
- Territories of the living
The research-creation doctorate recognizes the specific nature of research based on both:
- the creation of artwork or design work(s) and a creative process
- scientific research that nourishes creation: this can be a reflective or critical look back at creative work (mobilizing the sciences of art and design: history, philosophy, aesthetics…), but also a parallel investigation into related subjects, mobilizing one or more disciplines belonging to the sciences of matter or the humanities and which is formalized in the thesis dissertation.
Candidates choose two people to direct their research prior to submitting the application: a teacher authorized to supervise research (HDR) attached to one of the laboratories of the University of Limoges and a teacher in art or design from Ensad Limoges.
Applications must be submitted before noon on June 5th.
Contact with the director of studies and research is essential before submitting any application: contact Delphine de Boisséson
