Research Associates are Courtauld postgraduate students appointed to specific collection-based projects in the Courtauld libraries, archive and Gallery. Research Associates are apppointed in December for a year. Between two and five Associates are appointed to each project, to form a team investigating a topic or theme chosen to explore and to interpret the collection. They work under the supervision of collection curators and / or academic staff members. The Research Associates present the result of their investigation at workshop sessions.

The 2009 Research Associates are:

Claire Brisby (PhD research on nineteenth-century Balkan icon-painters' perception of western art )
Katie Faulkner (MA The Aesthetic Body: Science, Aestheticism and the Image of the Body in British Art 1860-1900)
Joanna Milk (PhD 'Visio Dei: The Iconography of Contemplative Vision in the Lives of the Saints in Tuscany, 1450-1500' )
Gregory Salter (MA Modernism in Britain 1890-1970)