MA by Research Film and Television

Research a topic of your choice or work on an extended creative project. Boost your professional practice and develop high-level skills and knowledge to progress your career.

You’ll benefit from an experienced team of research-active scholars and industry practitioners who can offer supervision across a range of topics. Staff specialisms include:

• gender and ageing in screen media
• US and European film history
• ‘heritage’ culture in film and TV
• cult film and TV
• the contemporary Western
• sci-fi TV
• animation and VFX
• community media
• documentary film
• screenwriting.

Study style

You’ll have the opportunity to choose between a research-based or practice-based project. For example, write a thesis of 80,000 words for the research-based PhD or, for the practice-based option, create a piece of content or stage a multi-media event and accompany it with a much-shorter written component. As a practice-based student, you’ll have access to our state-of-the-art studios and equipment.

This research contributes to the research priority area Being Human: Past, Present and Future and Creative Practice as Research.