PhD by the project

At doctoral level, the Institut national du patrimoine is a member of the EUR Humanités, Création et Patrimoine, which is attached to CY Cergy Paris Université and offers an innovative practice-led PhD methodology. Around fifteen candidates - architects, artists, landscape architects, heritage conservation and restoration professionals and writers - are selected each year, and four or five doctoral contracts are awarded in each of the five fields.

Heritage mention

The Heritage specialization offers two sub-specializations:

Conservation-restoration of cultural heritage

The PhD by the project in heritage conservation-restoration is a professional research experience based on practice. The invention or construction of know-how, technologies or, in the broadest sense, tools, whether conceptual or methodological, the analysis and perspective-taking of results, and reflexivity around practice, are at the heart of this doctorate. It is the ideal complement, both for conservation-restoration professionals and for all those involved in the heritage chain, to an academic doctorate in the history of restoration, the history of techniques or the science of materials. It therefore requires a master's degree in conservation-restoration and professional experience.

Contact
Oliver Zeder, Head of studies, Department of conservators-restorers
@email

Heritage studies

For heritage curators, the PhD by the project should enable new knowledge to be generated, both in the fundamental disciplines that serve as a reference for heritage expertise (in particular history, art history, archaeology and the history of science and technology) and in the technical disciplines that are used in heritage practice (in particular museology, archivistics, methods of analysis and description of movable and built heritage, as well as archaeological heritage). It is structured around a heritage project, which could be, for example, curating an exhibition, developing a new scientific and cultural project, designing and producing a new display for the permanent collections, processing and enhancing an archive collection, or analysing and describing a group of movable objects or objects from an excavation.

Contact
Séverine Blenner-Michel, Head of studies, Departement of curators
severine.blenner-michel@inp.fr