Practice Research Project

Wedi cwblhau'r modiwl dylai'r myfyrwyr fedru:

1. Demonstrate successful project design and application in the field of practice-based research
2. Demonstrate mastery of the strategies and operational procedures involved in formulating, planning, managing and realizing a research investigation through practical work leading to a substantial output
3. Demonstrate advanced skills - in a range of conceptual and representational practices and procedures - to achieve well-defined and conceptualized creative outcomes in addressing political and/or aesthetic issues
4. Critically evaluate these outcomes in relation to contemporary knowledge, practice and research traditions in the appropriate scholarly fields

This module enables students to complete their MA with a sustained and detailed practice-based research enquiry. Students will identify and pursue research questions that are addressed through their practical work and will create a substantial creative output, with supporting critical reflection and evaluation. Students will identify and pursue research questions that are addressed through their practical work and will realise a creative output of professional standard that provides an opportunity for a rigorous critical examination of the processes of performance or scenographic practice and their theoretical implications. The topic, rationale and practice-based methodology for the research project will be identified with the help of a research proposal, and students will work with the support of a supervisor. The form of the creative output will be developed through an assessed work in progress presentation. The practice-based research project can be submitted as an individually conceived and developed performance work or as a collaboratively conceived and developed performance work.

Students will be asked to begin thinking about their research topic (and its associated questions and methods) during semester 1 and 2. At the end of the second semester they will produce a research proposal which will inform the allocation of an appropriate supervisor, based on their expertise related to the proposed topic and methods. An assessed work in progress showing will be scheduled for late June or early July and students will present their final performances as part of a public platform in September.

Students will be supported with 4 x 1 hour group seminars which will help them develop and plan their practice-based projects. They will also be supported by six 1-hour individual supervision tutorials as they undertake their research.

The group seminars will cover: planning and executing your practice-based research project; planning the technical aspects of your practice-based research project; documenting your practice-based research project; and, reflecting on your practice-based research project.

Projects can be submitted as an individually conceived and developed performance work or as a collaboratively conceived and developed performance work. Where the submitted work involves joint collaboration, each student must identify their contribution to the work (which will be confirmed by a statement signed by each collaborator), provided that it is possible to apply to the work the same criteria used in judging independent work. The length of the performance will be negotiated as part of the proposal process. The student will have to provide sufficient evidence for the examiners to make judgements against the criteria of assessment. This may require the submission of carefully selected and presented supplementary material.

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