Supervision and Assessment

Supervision

As a research student, your closest contact will be with your supervisor, or co-supervisors, who will meet with you regularly to discuss your work. The supervisory relationship is at the heart of your research. Your supervisor(s) are experts in their field who will guide you throughout your degree and will agree upon a programme of reading, research and writing with you.

Thesis

Allowing for practice-as-research variations (see below), the final goal of the research degree is the production of your thesis. The word-length for the MA by Research thesis is 30,000 - 40,000 words (excluding footnotes, bibliography and appendices).

Practice as Research (PaR)

Candidates wanting to pursue practice-based research at MA level will be expected to demonstrate a proven track record of professional standard practice or other relevant and significant practical experience and competencies.

Subject to the approval of the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, a suitably qualified candidate for the degree of MA by Research may submit research that has two components: a body of creative practice (this may involve performance, curation, writing for performance, translation, applied theatre projects or digital outcomes) and a shorter written thesis.