MRes in Design


Director of Studies: Stuart Walker. Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 months part-time. Entry Requirements: An upper second class honours degree, or its equivalent, in Design or a cognate discipline. Normally, successful applications will also demonstrate a high level of attainment in their dissertation or equivalent from their first degree. The subject of their dissertation from their first degree dissertation must also clearly demonstrate an element of research. Industry-based applicants should demonstrate appropriate transferable skills required to undertake a work-based research and a design project. Assessment: Successful completion of three taught modules, and original research and creative practice as demonstrated via thesis. IELTS: 6.5


Further Information: www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/lica


The MRes in Design (Masters by Research) is a highly flexible research degree aimed at students who wish to pursue a particular topic in depth, rather than taking a traditional taught postgraduate degree. It develops design-literate individuals capable of applying a range of research and creative methods to achieve robust design solutions that address the challenges of design, innovation, and sustainability in the 21st century. It will prepare you for a higher research degree and is suited both to recent graduates and mature students with industrial experience.


You will take three taught modules and a self-directed design research project which may include creative practice and/or industry linked research topics. Research areas are supported though ImaginationLancaster, a creative design research lab, who apply experimental research approaches for the design of products, places and systems. Particular research expertise includes design thinking, design for sustainability, design futures, design management, design strategy, innovation and design, service design, and urban environments.


This course is suitable for individuals who wish to develop their research and creative skills, and modes of thinking required to address complex contemporary challenges through critical inquiry, project-based learning and practice- based research. Graduates are innovative, creative thinkers, and change makers who are prepared for PhD studies or for leadership roles in industry.


DOCTORAL STUDY


We welcome applications and enquiries from individuals seeking to undertake research for a PhD in the Contemporary Arts. There are no prescribed areas of study for a research degree provided supervision from an appropriate member of staff is available.


PhD


Director of Research Studies: Antti Saario. Entry Requirements: An upper second class honours degree, or its equivalent and a research-orientated masters degree in an appropriate discipline plus a viable research proposal. Applicants for practice-based doctoral research should also be able to demonstrate appropriate professional experience. Assessment: Original research and thesis and/or creative practice. IELTS: 6.5 Funding: LICA offers one full AHRC PhD Block Grant Partnership Studentship (for UK/EU students) covering fees and a maintenance stipend for 3 years to study Dance, Drama, Theatre or Performance for a PhD in the Contemporary Arts. The award is also open for interdisciplinary applicants in relevant fields. See also page 205. Further Information: www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/lica


LICA offers you the opportunity to undertake research integrating creative practice with theoretical or historical work, as well as offering more traditional research programmes assessed by thesis only. The relationship between theory and practice, whilst approached in different ways, forms the central theme that links and shapes the Institute’s research priorities and orientation.


LICA offers research training in the use of electronic bibliographic resources and software, and audiovisual material; contemporary aesthetics; and practical and analytical methods of research and interpretation. LICA’s research students also participate in the Research Training Programme of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences which is geared towards providing generic research skills to support students’ research throughout their time at Lancaster.


40 Arts and Social Sciences


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