At the doctoral level, the EUR Humanities, Creation and Heritage supports the creation of a practice-led PhD, selective, highly internationalized and open, among others, to architects, artists, landscape architects, restorers, curators or writers. About fifteen candidates are selected each year and five doctoral contracts are awarded in 5 mentions.

Conservation-restoration of cultural heritage

The practice-led PhD in conservation-restoration of cultural heritage is a professional research experience that is intrinsically linked to the practice of conservation-restoration.  Analysis and results implementation,  reflexivity concerning this practice, the invention or construction of  know-how, technology, or in a broader sense, tools, conceptual or methodological, which are at the centre of this doctoral degree, are today absent from the disciplinary field of conversation-restoration.

This doctoral degree is complementary and not in concurrence to the academic PhD already existing, whose topics are related to the history of restoration, technical art history or material sciences. It is awaited by conservation-restoration professionals and also by other stakeholders in heritage policy. It it thus mandatory to practice conservation-restoration to apply.

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Heritage studies

For the cultural heritage curator, a practice-led doctoral degree  should generate new knowledge, as much in the basic disciplines that serve as a reference in the expertise of cultural heritage (in particular history, history of art, archaeology, history of  science and technology) as in the technical disciplines that are implemented in the practice of cultural heritage (in particular museology, archival heritage, methods of analysis and description of  movable and immovable heritage, along with archaeological heritage).

The doctoral degree is focused on a cultural heritage project that could be, for example, the development of a new scientific and cultural project, the design and completion of new display of permanent collections, the treatment and presentation choices of an archival collection, the analysis and description of a series of movable objects or, following an archaeological dig. 

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