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Doctorat en Design (Centre de Recherche en Design, ENS Paris-Saclay / ENSCI) at ENSCI – Les Ateliers

ENSCI – Les Ateliers, France

Programme overview

The doctoral training in design is run by the Centre de Recherche en Design (CRD) across the ENS Paris-Saclay and ENSCI-Les Ateliers sites, offering practice-based research in design linked to major societal transformation challenges. Doctoral students are supervised by CRD research staff throughout the three years of the thesis.

Department: Centre de Recherche en Design (CRD)  |  Duration: 3 years  |  Study mode: full-time; French  |  Intake: Rolling selection  |  Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France

What you will study

Doctoral students complete 100 hours of complementary training: 50 hours of transversal courses offered by the Collège doctoral and 50 hours of design-specific project reviews. The CRD is attached to two doctoral schools: ED Sciences Sociales et Humanités (no. 629) and ED Interfaces (no. 573).

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Application information

Entry requirements

Selection is rolling and carried out by CRD research staff. Applicants download and complete the application form and email it to the admissions contacts; the selected candidate is helped to formulate a thesis subject by a supervisor who handles enrolment at the doctoral school. Support is provided for CIFRE industry-funded theses.

Intake: Rolling selection

Duration: 3 years

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