The Forum for Critical Inquiry (FoCI) is a central, research-led academic department of the GSA that provides a range of formal undergraduate and postgraduate courses and non-studio based learning opportunities in critical, historical and cultural studies. Core staff comprise: material culture specialists; art and design historians; critical theorists; critics; curators; educationalists; practitioners; cultural historians; and media & film studies specialists. Input to the Forum comes also from studio staff and from a wide range of External Affiliates, from disciplines as diverse as socio-management and bioethics.

Critical Inquiry is an essential component of all undergraduate programmes in the School of Design and the School of Fine Art, and the Forum also offers course choices to students in the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Year 2 and Year 3 of studies. For most of the four years of undergraduate programmes in design and fine art, one day per week of the student timetable is allocated to the Forum.

The Forum also offers postgraduate study as part of the Graduate School, principally the MLitt Writing and Criticism programme, which can be studied either full- or part-time. Core Forum staff are all active researchers and publishing academics, and expressions of interest in doctoral study are welcomed.

Head of Forum:

Dr Ken Neil MA(Hons) MFA PhD PGCert FHEA

Contact: +44 (0) 141 353 4556  foci@gsa.ac.uk