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Tate Research Strategy

Mapping out the next five years and our vision to create a vibrant research culture across Tate

Research at Tate involves a range of subject disciplines, including art history, conservation and conservation science, collection management, education and museology, as well as a variety of research methods and outputs.

Projects often bring together specialists through interdisciplinary collaborations and partnerships with organisations such as museums, universities, other Independent Research Organisations and industrial partners.

Research helps us encourage new knowledge, address practical problems, develop new tools for practice, and allows us to contribute to broader debates.

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Research hubs

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  • Henry Moore OM, CH Family Group 1949, cast 1950–1

    Publications

    Our large-scale publications present in-depth research into key areas of interest, from Henry Moore to performance at Tate

  • Vanessa Bell, Abstract Painting c.1914

    In Focus

    In Focus projects examine artworks in Tate’s collection from a range of perspectives, reflecting contemporary approaches to object-based scholarship

  • Cleaning Modern Oil Paintings research project

    Features

    Browse a growing range of interviews and articles related to research activity at Tate

Projects

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All current and past projects

Studentships

Tate is delighted to host a growing number of doctoral students who gain professional experience and contribute ideas and knowledge to Tate’s programmes and projects.

Here, Maria Balshaw, Director of Tate, introduces the Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme with insights from doctoral students engaged in research at Tate.

Current studentships and how to apply

Opportunities

Details of current opportunities are given below. Follow us on Twitter for updates, news and opportunities.

Brooks International Fellowship Programme

The Brooks International Fellowship Programme at Tate and Delfina Foundation is an annual fellowship and residency generously supported by the Elizabeth and Rory Brooks Foundation. Applications are now closed; future opportunities will be advertised here, on Working at Tate, on the Delfina Foundation website, and on Twitter @TateResearch.

Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational

The Centre offers a variety of short-term posts to offer developmental opportunities to researchers and curators from around the world including Adjunct Curator posts, a Visiting Fellowship programme and a Travel Grant programme.

Find out more

Duncan Grant, ‘James Strachey’ 1910

Research FAQs

See our Research FAQs for more information and details on how to contact us.

Research Facilities

  • Felicitas Vogler, ‘Photograph of Ben Nicholson holding his cat, Tommy’ 1968

    Tate Archive

    A wealth of material relating to the history of British art from 1900 to the present

  • Situationist Times, published by Jacqueline de Jong. Photo: Matt Greenwood

    Tate Library

    A collection of books, catalogues and rare items relating to British art from 1500s and international art from c.1900

  • Photograph of visitors viewing watercolours in Tate's Prints and Drawings Room

    Tate Britain
    Venue

    Prints and Drawings Rooms

    View drawings, prints and more from Tate’s collection not currently on display in the galleries

  • Chris Ofili, ‘No Woman, No Cry’ 1998

    Art and Artists

    Artworks, films, articles, biographies, glossary terms and more. Explore Tate’s growing collection of British and international art

Banner image: Performance of Tony Conrad’s Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain at Tate Liverpool, May 2019, part of the research project Reshaping the Collectible: When Artworks Live in the Museum. Photo: Mark McNulty
Tate Papers banner image: Detail of damaged lower panel of Marcel Duchamp’s The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) 1915–23, Estate of Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Bryony Bery