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MRes - Master of Research
Royal College of Art
Full Time
SEP-25
1 year
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MRes - Master of Research
Royal College of Art
Full Time
SEP-25
1 year
MRes - Master of Research
Royal College of Art
Part Time
SEP-25
2 years
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The MRes RCA is a dynamic, interdisciplinary degree that fosters innovative thinking and equips students for PhD-level study or professional industry research roles. By teaching processes and methods that are informed by art and design thinking, you will be introduced to and develop practice-led and experimental research skills.
The MRes curriculum offers a transformational experience and gives you the opportunity to construct your own area of expertise. It offers vibrant, rigorous and experimental research training in a broad array of research methods, allowing students to innovate and interrogate their disciplines by learning from methods across art and design practice.
Specialisms
The MRes RCA is interdisciplinary in nature, however at application you will elect a specialism. This specialism will be your central discipline and you will be assigned a related expert supervisor for closer supervision of your research project.
Architecture
Communication
Design
Fine Art
Experimental Humanities.
This programme is open to a wide range of applicants, including graduates of the RCA or other MA programmes from the UK or around the globe, mid-career artists and designers seeking to further their education and practice, and career-changers who wish to bring their knowledge into the context of art and design research. The MRes award will also appeal to those in, or working towards, an academic career in a range of contexts.
Students living in
Domestic
£15,150 per year
Students from Domestic
This is the fee you pay if the University is in the same country that you live in (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
£35,950 per year
Students from EU
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from somewhere in the EU.
£35,950 per year
Students from International
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from a country outside the EU.
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