Course summary
The MRes (A&D), Master of Research in Art & Design is ideal for students who want to prepare for doctoral level research in Art & Design (PhD or Professional Doctorate) or to develop a range of advanced creative research skills to enhance their art or design practice or career, nationally and internationally. The programme is suitable for students with little or no background experience of research from any field, as well as those with previous experience of professional and/or academic research in Art and Design or a related field. Our seminar-based teaching is combined with online delivery and assessment. This means that the programme can be studied flexibly on campus and/or from a remote location. Students may elect to spend all or some of their time studying on campus or from a remote location, and can swap between modes with ease. Cardiff School of Art and Design has creative research at its heart. It is home to a range of centres and groups engaged in cutting-edge, world-leading creative and transdisciplinary research, drawing upon the Arts, Sciences, Humanities and Philosophies. The School encourages multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research collaborations. We support our students to work with other research disciplines, commercial and community sectors in society around the world and other research centres across the wider University. We will work with you to put together a workable and attractive research proposal for further research and study. We will also help you to connect with other researchers around the world. Cardiff Met is ranked as the top post-1992 University in the UK for ‘world leading’ (4) or ‘internationally excellent’ (3) research in the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) (2014).
Modules
Course Content The MRes (A&D) is project led. Students identify a research topic and question/s and build upon that, whilst learning a range of research methods and by testing their ideas in a supportive but rigorous community of artist and designer researchers. The course begins with no preconception whatsoever with regards to where student projects might start or how they might develop and has an open mind with regard to the possibilities of creative research practices in Art and Design. The programme will familiarise and connect you with our world leading research expertise in Cardiff School of Art and Design. Our research ranges across the empirical and the scientific to the poetic and speculative, drawing upon the Arts, Sciences, Humanities and Philosophies. We encourage projects that seek to work in a multidisciplinary, co-disciplinary or transdisciplinary way with other research disciplines as well as commercial and community sectors in society anywhere in the world and of course the other research centres across the wider University. The programme length is three semesters full-time and five semesters part-time. Each of the credited modules runs for one semester: •Semester One (Autumn) – Research Territories •Semester Two (Spring) – Research Skills •Semester Three (Summer) – Research Output or for (full-time students only) an option is offered. •Semester Three (Autumn) – Research Output Full-time students may or may not choose to include a break during the Summer. Students may use this period as they see fit for family time or a vacation, personal research, work experience or to return to employment. A full-time student starting the programme in October may complete either the following September (by continuing the programme through July and August, 12 months duration) or the following December (when a break is taken over the Summer period, 18-month duration).
Assessment method
All credited modules are assessed via a ‘portfolio’ comprising coursework, including text and presentation, viva-voce and practice if appropriate and as detailed in the module description, handbook and briefing documentation. The portfolio assessment is critical to Masters level assessment in Art & Design and is a long-established and widely used methodology in that field. The portfolio assessment is familiar to undergraduate students and has been used for some years in the other programmes in the school of Art and Design and has proved very successful. The portfolio assessment is designed with the transdisciplinary and inter-disciplinary nature of Art and Design practice and research in mind. Art and Design research commonly combines textual material with creative practice in varying amounts, accordingly the portfolio assessment consists of a combination of: • Academic text •Speculative text •Directed text (i.e. Research Proposal) •Practice •Viva Voce •Presentation •Exhibition These items are not assessed as individual items but taken as a body of work in a single ‘portfolio’ assessment to arrive at a single summative mark. It is the responsibility of the student to reflect upon what it is necessary for them to present in their portfolio in order to meet the learning outcomes and to ensure in their viva voce that they can convey critical insight and depth of knowledge in the connectivity and coherence between the various forms of text-practice-presentation-exhibition.
Entry requirements
A good undergraduate honours degree (2.1 or above) is normally required for entry. However, applicants with relevant professional experience or qualifications are welcomed and will be considered individually and students who have a weaker overall undergraduate degree but who have demonstrated excellence in the theoretical aspects of Art & Design will also be considered. Selection Procedure: Once a student application has been received they may be invited in person or by Skype (or similar) for a short meeting with the Programme Director or nominee to discuss the programme in more detail and consider how the programme will suit their background and future needs.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| Republic of Ireland | £1225 | Module |
| England | £1225 | Module |
| Northern Ireland | £1225 | Module |
| Scotland | £1225 | Module |
| Wales | £1225 | Module |
Additional fee information
No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Provider information
Cardiff Metropolitan University
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