This course is also available as an Extended Master's that helps international students adjust to studying in the UK.

The Master in Arts, Health and Performance offers an engaging course with a unique blend of academic study and practice.

We know that lives are busy, so we have designed the course to be taught through a combination of intensive in person sessions, online interactive and self-directed teaching, as well as group and individual tutorials. Our course will equip you with highly employable skills and advanced knowledge to critically understand and navigate related fields both as an individual and in your professional role(s).

Why study Arts, Health, and Performance?

This multi-disciplinary Master's course examines the potential of participatory arts, performance science and artistic practice to enhance health, wellbeing, education/training and performance. Theories, research and practice within disciplines of psychology, sociology, physiology and pedagogy will be related to participatory/inclusive and elite arts contexts.

There is engagement with research and practice throughout the course and there is an opportunity to develop a research project that can take different forms such as practice/performance-based, lab-based and/or written.

Students benefit from expertise, talks and workshops from clinicians, practitioners and artists as the Sidney De Hann Centre for Arts and Health and Centre for Practice Research in the Arts are part of the University and campus.

The Canterbury Campus offers a studio theatre, performance studios, studio-lab, music studios, a concert hall, a sports centre with fully equipped gym, and green areas and gardens.

Your future career

Graduates of this course will be able to pursue careers in a variety of arts roles, including in strategic development, project management in related fields, managerial positions in participatory arts and health/arts and education/arts and performance and in for profit or non-profit organisations. Graduates would have knowledge and understanding of arts for health and how to enhance health, wellbeing and longevity in performance, that would be an asset to arts companies and performers.

Students who are already in the workplace will benefit from using their new-found qualification and confidence to progress their careers with their current employer, or to use it to secure promotions or new employment elsewhere. They can also use the qualification as a way to improve what they are undertaking within their current role.

Students completing this MA could also go on to a PhD in Performing Arts or Music and could undertake a teaching qualification (PGCE or Schools Direct) to take their practice into a school, FE or HE setting.