There are no pre-requisites for this module to be added

This module provides you with the opportunity to undertake a large-scale project in your chosen area of study. Your project may have a scholarly or a practice-led focus and you will be guided by a supervisor to develop your ideas, practice, and methods in a manner appropriate to your chosen field or area of study. This module runs across all three trimesters to allow for long-term, in-depth study/investigation and practice/development throughout the programme. The first trimester includes workshops and seminars designed to help you select, refine, and begin to develop a viable project. Contact in the second trimester is intended to support you in honing your research process and to further develop your use of the tools, methods, and processes that pertain to your specific project. You will be supported through these trimesters by seminars in which you will present on and discuss your work with staff and peers. You will also have individual tutorials in which you can bring specific questions to your assigned supervisor receive feedback on formative work. In the third trimester contact will take place during 2 intensive study weeks (weeks 4 and 9) in which you will have the opportunity to discuss and present your work in detail, and to receive feedback and support from staff and peers. You will also have the opportunity for more individual tutorials with your supervisor.

You will finish your project and submit it for consideration by the programme team. Your work will be critiqued and scrutinised by a panel of examiners from the programme team and the questions and queries that arise will form the basis of discussion in the viva voce exam. The viva voce exam forms the entirety of the summative assessment for this module.

LO1: Conceptualise your scholarly/artistic research intentions and effectively locate your practice within the context of your field.

LO2: Rationalise the use of particular methods, materials, and theoretical frameworks in your practice.

LO3: Appraise your practice and any products/findings (and those of others) in a critically informed manner.

LO4: Draw conclusions from data, literature, and practical/artistic investigations and use these to inform your understanding of your practice, and its value, within the wider scholarly/artistic field(s) it inhabits.