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Research Degrees in Art and Design MPhil/PhD – (M.Phil.)
De Montfort University
Art and Design| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 4,487 - ≈ € 10,882 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Leicester / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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Research in the Faculty of Art & Design is rich and diverse, spanning a wide range of creative disciplines and methodologies, with significant contributions made to our cultural and economic life. Art & Design has a strong record in research activity, evidenced by its rating of 4 at the last Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).
Art & Design has four specialised Research areas:
* Design and New Product Development
* Fine Art Practices
* Photographic Studies and Creative Imaging
* Textile Engineering And Materials (TEAM)
The Faculty of Art and Design provides MPhil/PhD students with one first supervisor and up to two second supervisors. You have meetings with your supervision team normally once every month and this is usually supplemented by additional smaller meetings or tutorials when needed. MPhil and PhD students are supported by the University Research Office and there are a number of research student newsletters and conferences as well as on-line support groups.
To support your studies, you will undertake Training Needs Analysis and Personal Development Planning. This helps to identify a range of both Faculty and University training courses it would be helpful to attend.
Facilities
You are normally provided with your own individual workspace and computer, where you work with other PhD students in a dedicated area which provides a rich research environment. Practice-based PhD students are similarly provided with relevant studio and workshop facilities. You also have access to excellent specialist facilities across the Faculty, including suites of high-performance multimedia equipment, studios and workshops, specialist laboratories and individual study areas or studio space.
Our graduates
PhD study at DMU enhances your prospects of further research and opportunities to work in the academic field. It can also lead to higher level creative and professional careers.
Contents
The Faculty has a strong research profile. Its four specialisms cover Design and New Product Development, Fine Art Practices, Photographic Studies and Creative Imaging and Textiles Engineering and Materials.
We offer excellent supervision, study support and facilities to PhD students. There is a vibrant research culture fostered by research seminars where staff, students and visiting specialists contribute.
You are provided with first and second supervisors, regular study support, dedicated accommodation and appropriate research training courses.
About this course
The Faculty of Art and Design offers MPhil and PhD research opportunities in the following areas:
Design and New Product Development
* • Resource Efficient Design
* • Built environment
* • Design management
* • Design history
* • Digital media design
* • Fashion – including contour and footwear design
* • Interior design
* • Product development
* • Product, furniture and industrial design
* • Improving Business by Design
Fine Art
* • Digital Media
* • Sculpture – including rapid prototyping in contemporary sculpture
* • Painting
Photographic Studies and Creative Imaging
* • Photographic history 1839-1915
* • Holography and lenticular imaging
* • Knowledge media design
* • Photographic practice
* • Video production
* • Graphic design practice
Textile Engineering and Materials (TEAM)
* • Environmentally-friendly textiles and their production and processing
* • Technical, medical and smart textiles
* • Novel fibre crops such as flax, hemp, nettles
* • Application of enzymes in textile processes
* • Industrial textiles, including aerospace and military textiles, protective clothing and composites
* • Modelling the relationship between structure and properties of textile fibres, yarns and fabrics.
A research degree can be undertaken either as a creative practice based programme or as a programme involving the production of a thesis. You are normally registered for an MPhil (Research Masters) with transfer possibility to PhD. In certain cases, direct registration for PhD is possible.
Teaching styles and methods
All research students complete a probationary period (six months full-time or 12 months part-time) during which your personal research proposal is considered by the University’s Higher Degrees Committee. If you registered for the MPhil with possible transfer to PhD route, you present a report (after 9 months full-time or 18 months part-time) which is assessed before you transfer.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
You should have achieved a high standard in recent undergraduate work. Alternatively recognition of prior achievement, perhaps through a body of published work, can help with other entry qualifications.
If English is not your first language an IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent when you start the course, is required.
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