Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 12 months full-time; 24 months part‑time
This Masters provides you with the skills to research and interpret everyday clothing, fashion and textiles in historical contexts. The programme introduces you to theoretical and object-based approaches through a combination of taught and research-based components, showing you how historic dress and textiles can be studied both in their own right and as a means to understand the past. Close links with local and national archives, libraries and museums, including Glasgow Museums and National Museums Scotland, means the programme offers you a unique insight into the study, curation, interpretation and preservation of historic dress and textile collections.
2.1 Hons (or non-UK equivalent) in Arts or Humanities (including Textile or Fashion Design) is preferred but we may consider other backgrounds.
Relevant work experience may be considered in lieu of qualifications. Suitable experience could include roles in cultural heritage (such as museums, galleries, or archives), working with curators, exhibitions, or cataloguing. Professional qualifications may also be taken into account. Please provide a professional reference related to your work experience.
The attributes you gain from the programme will be attractive to employers from museums, the heritage sector, art dealers and auction houses.
Other potential career paths include theatre, film and television production as a costume researcher or designer.
The programme also offers an excellent foundation upon which to progress to PhD study and an academic career.
Core courses:
Framing Dress and Textile Histories
Research Methods and Skills
Applying Dress and Textile Histories
Optional courses:
Shaping Modern Artefacts: Material Form and Function
Understanding Textiles: Technology
Victorian Visions: Dress and Textiles, c.1837-1901
Material Cultures
Ethics for Artefacts: Modern Materials
Work Placement
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