Tate collaborates with a wide range of academic institutions, both nationally and internationally, in a variety of ways. Below you can find details of some of Tate's longer-term academic partnerships and collaborations. These involve, for example, post-graduate teaching and the organisation of education programmes. Partnerships based on specific research initiatives are described under Research Projects and are listed with links to the project description at the end of this section.
Liverpool John Moores University: BA History of Art & Museum Studies
Launched in 2006, the BA (Hons) History of Art and Museum Studies degree offers a theoretical and practical framework for the understanding of and contribution to the history of art in a professional context... 
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Universities of Central Lancashire, the University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University, Manchester Metropolitan University and Staffordshire University: The Postgraduate Module at Tate Liverpool: Contemporary Curating
The Postgraduate Module in Contemporary Curating replaces the former University Network Programme at Tate Liverpool and consists of three distinct strands: teaching, research and exchange... Read more
CAVA (Centre for Architecture and Visual Art) at the University of Liverpool and Liverpool University Press: Critical Forum
Critical Forum is a longstanding research, programming and publishing partnership in collaboration between Tate Liverpool, CAVA (a Liverpool University inter-disciplinary research centre) and Liverpool University Press... Read more
Liverpool John Moores University: Research Masters
Research Masters is an annual research partnership between Liverpool John Moores University's School of Art and Tate Liverpool... Read more
University of Liverpool Continuing Education: Continuing Education Courses
University of Liverpool Continuing Education and Tate Liverpool devise study days, talks series and year long courses for adult audiences... Read more
London South Bank University and Wimbledon School of Art: Tate Encounters
The project will produce in-depth case studies of how fifty London migrant families, primarily from the African/Caribbean and Asian diasporas, encounter Tate Britain and the National Collection of British Art over a three year period... Read more
The AHRB Research Centre for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies
Tate is a partner, along with the Universities of
Essex and of Manchester, in a Research Centre devoted to surrealism
and its legacies... Read more
Liverpool John Moores University: Artist Teacher MA
The Artist Teacher MA is a response to the changing
nature of the disciplines of art, design, craft, art history and
theory that have occurred since many teachers gained their initial
qualifications...
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Liverpool University: Critical Forum
The Critical Forum is a longstanding research collaboration
between Tate Liverpool, Liverpool University and Liverpool University
Press...
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The London Consortium
The London Consortium is a postgraduate programme
in the humanities, leading to an MRes or PhD degree from the University
of London. It is a collaboration between the Architectural Association,
Birkbeck College (University of London), the Institute of Contemporary
Arts and Tate... Read more
The Open University
Tate has collaborated for a number of years with
The Open University at the level of both research and teaching.
The collaboration has led to student study days and to conferences
and other public events... Read more
The Royal College of Art: Curating Contemporary Art
The two-year Masters course ‘Curating Contemporary
Art’ was set up in 1992 and quickly established a reputation
as one of the world's foremost curatorial programmes... Read more
University of Central Lancashire: Making Histories Visible
This new three year partnership (2004-7) between
Tate Liverpool and the Making Histories Visible Project at UCLAN
will support research into how collecting, curating and programming
impacts on audience, future development...
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The University Network
Established in 1998, the University Network is a
unique teaching partnership between Tate Liverpool and the Universities
of Central Lancashire, Keele, Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores,
Manchester, MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan...
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Research Projects
- The Camden Town Group: Paintings and Drawings in the Tate Collection
- Contemporary Art Research: Modern Paints
- Interviews with Artists
- J.M.W. Turner: Drawings, Watercolours and Sketchbooks in the Turner Collection
- Media Matters Collaborating Towards the Care of Time-Based Media Works of Art
- MultiEncode
- Inside Installations: the preservation and presentation of installation art
- Recording Changes in Naum Gabo's Plastic Sculptures
- The Sublime Object: Nature, Art and Language
- Tudor and Stuart Paintings and Drawings: Works in the Tate Collection
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