Focusing on fine art research, we aim to help fulfil students’ aspirations as practising artists and writers. We place emphasis on interdisciplinary connections, and students network regularly with doctoral students across UCL and the London Arts and Humanities Partnership, gaining experience relevant to their careers as professional artists, writers, academics and researchers. The Slade School of Fine Art at UCL, is one of the UK's leading university departments for research in fine art. It approaches research as the practice of art - reflections upon that practice through methods that are experimental, imaginative and diverse. All studio staff are practising artists actively involved in research as well as teaching with a broad and diverse range of interests and expertise. Doctoral researchers benefit from the Slade's central London location and proximity to other research institutions. Practice-led students in full-time attendance are allocated studio space and all students have access to a project space and workshop facilities. Students graduating from the UCL Slade School doctoral research programme have, in the last three years, gone on to further their research through postdoctoral research, to establish international careers as professional artists, progressed to academic careers nationally and internationally and have established profiles in a range of related fields including art writing and criticism, and curating in galleries, museums and project spaces.