We welcome applications from international students registered for a PhD in their own country to join the Institute as an occasional student.

We also welcome those who are not currently enrolled on a PhD programme, but who are professionals whose work relates to academic considerations of culture and art history.

Occasional students pay a monthly fee (contact us at warburg@sas.ac.uk for details) and receive an academic mentor and access to the LibraryPhotographic Collection, and Archive. They are encouraged to attend open lectures, seminars and colloquia and to become part of the Institute’s international research culture.

Please note that this is not a formal exchange programme and therefore occasional students do not receive formal supervision and we are unable to sponsor visa applications.

We recommend that occasional students spend at least one term at the Institute, but we will consider applications for a shorter stay. The maximum length of stay is one year. View the Instutute's term dates.

To apply for a place as an occasional student, download and complete  either (as relevant) the PhD OR Non-PhD pathway application form below and email into: warburg@sas.ac.uk. 

Occasional students' fees: £500 per month or £1000 per term

Deadline for submission of application

Notification of decision about award

Friday, 6 October 2023 End of October 2023
Friday, 23 February 2024 End of March 2024
Friday, 24 May 2024 End of June 2024

Application Forms

Occasional student application form_PhD pathway DOC 76 KB
Occasional student application form_non PhD pathway DOC 76.5 KB

Occasional Students confirmed for the next academic year 2023/24 and ahead

  • Dimitrios Giagtzoglou October 2023
  • Daniel Sik  September 2023 - December 2023
  • Rita Aloy Ricart September 2023 - December 2023
  • Nathaniel Sola Rubio September 2023 - December 2023
  • Emanuele Rovati September 2023 - December 2023 
  • Mattia Petrini November 2023
  • Michael Chappell September 2023 - January 2024
  • Sabine Karlen April - June 2024

I would unreservedly recommend the Institute as a place of study. It offered me a unique understanding of the interactions between image and word, art history, religion, literature and philosophy, across space and time.

Dr Laura Popoviciu, former MA and PhD Student