The MRes Arts & Humanities pathway will equip students to progress to doctoral research or to pursue careers in the arts, and the creative industries and the pathway emphasizes professional skills alongside intellectual growth. The School's graduates have a strong track record in obtaining leadership roles in the arts and forging paths as leading practitioners within contemporary art practice.
We believe that research-informed approaches play an important role in new thinking in the arts, nationally and internationally, and the MRes pathway offers a training ground and networks to enhance developing careers.
The pathway offers:
- Training and support for the development of a research career in academia and/or the professional sphere of arts and humanities.
- A broad program of interdisciplinary research methods training across art and design, at the interface of practice and research
- Focus on the public value and contribution of research through understanding impact agendas for arts and humanities research
- A combination of time-tested and experimental research formats and approaches, including practice-led and practice-based research
- Designed to nurture an individual research project (potentially leading to Ph.D. or public project) and including an individual tutorial system
- Includes collective and collaborative ways of working, leading to enhanced peer networking
- Taught by Internationally-active, public-facing researchers
- London research community, national and international partners including museums, arts organizations, and academic subject specialist networks
