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Introductionthe word requirement is adjusted.The creative and written elementsof the thesis are carefully related. It isexpected that the written element willset the creative work in its relevanttheoretical, historical, critical ordesign context.Bath Spa University PhDResearch Network (RESNET)RESNET is a research studentnetwork run by and for Bath SpaUniversity research students. Thenetwork arranges seminars, aresearch student support groupand an annual symposium. It alsoliaises with the Graduate Schoolwith the aim of promoting researchstudent work within the universityand beyond. All students are invitedto join the group on enrolment.Research strengthsBath Spa has particular researchstrengths in the following areas:Bath School of Art and DesignIn Art and Design we are able to offersupervision in research degrees thatinvolve creative work in the followingdisciplines: ceramics; fine art, whichincludes painting, photography,sculpture and video; graphicdesign; fashion and textile design;illustration; new media, interactivityand narrative; digital imaging;electronic printmaking; interactivefilm; electronic design; media artpractice.We can also offer supervision inaspects of the history and theory ofart, craft and design, visual culture,material culture, museum and gallerystudies and critical theory from the18th century to the present day.School of EducationIn the School of Education we areable to offer supervision in researchdegrees linked to the followingresearch centres:- Centre for Educational Innovationand Technology (CEIT)- Centre for Research in EarlyScientific Learning (CRESL)- Centre for Research in ArtsEducation (CRAE)- Children and the EnvironmentResearch Centre (CERC)- Centre for Research into Inclusionand Vulnerable Learners (CRIVL).Further details can be found athttp://www.bathspa.ac.uk/schools/education/research/default.aspResearch programmes can alsobe offered in the areas of educationpolicy and practice, internationaleducation, sociology of educationand mathematics education.26
IntroductionSchool of Humanitiesand Cultural IndustriesThe School can offer supervision in English literature; creativewriting; history; study of religions;communications, cultural andmedia studies.Creative Writing: Candidates areinvited to submit proposals for PhDprojects that combine a manuscript(fiction, poems, play-scripts orliterary non-fiction) with an elementof supporting or contextualisingresearch. The School has some of the country’s best postgraduateprogrammes in Creative Writing,with an exceptionally strong team of publishing novelists, poets,scriptwriters, children’s writers and writers of literary non-fiction.We have a good record of securingAHRC funding for PhD students in this subject, and many of ourstudents have been successful in publishing their work.English Literature: Candidatesmay propose English LiteraturePhD projects in any literary field.The School has distinctive expertisein contemporary novels and poetry,ecocriticism and nature writing,early modern literature, literature andplace, gothic studies, postcolonialwriting and modernism.In RAE 2008, a large majority ofthe School’s research in these subjectswas classified as internationallyexcellent or internationally recognised,and some was classified as world-leading.History: The Department of History atBath Spa has active research clustersin British and Irish history (earlymodern and modern), internationalhistory, and the history of gender andthe urban experience. The 2008 RAErecognised the excellence of thedepartment, awarding the bulk ofits historians top 4*(world-leading)and 3* (internationally excellent)grades. The department currentlyhas an active group of doctoralstudents working on a range ofsubjects, extending from 16th centuryqueenship in Navarre through varioustopics redefining the 18th-19th centurycultural history of Bath, to the study ofearly 20th century Turkey.The department encouragesresearch proposals in early modern/modern British/European social,political and cultural history; Irishhistory; the history of the Islamicworld; and gender, politics andidentity. The Department’s newCentre for the History and Culture:the Urban Experience encouragesapplications exploring the culturalhistory of the town and questionsaround gender, space, place andenvironment.Study of Religions: Study of Religionsat Bath Spa is known for its focus onreligions in the contemporary worldand contains scholars of internationalexcellence, as rated by RAE 2008.Among its areas of research strengthare South Asian religions (particularlyBuddhism and Hinduism), new age,paganism, new religious movements,contemporary spiritualities, genderand religion, Christianity, Africanreligions, Buddhist ethics, Buddhisthermeneutics, and religion andeducation. The departmentwelcomes applications fromprospective research students in anyof these areas. Previous and currentPhD students have worked in areassuch as Buddhism in Britain,theosophy, contemporary ‘rites ofpassage’, Madhyamika philosophyand postmodernism, contemporaryforms of Christianity, culturalastronomy, and Christian Science.Communications, Cultural andMedia Studies: The department,which includes RAE-rated scholarsof world-leading and internationalimportance, encourages researchproposals from applicants interestedin pursuing postgraduate studies inmedia institutions, print media andjournalism, media history, popularculture, stardom and celebrity, media and videogames, film history,Hollywood, European cinema, andcultural theory.Registration periodMPhilFull-time:-Maximum: 36 months;-Minimum: 18 months.Part-time:-Maximum: 48 months;-Minimum: 30 months.Registration periodPhDFull-time:-Maximum: 60 months;-Minimum: 24 months.Part-time:-Maximum: 84 months;-Minimum: 36 months.27
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