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Study Details: MRes 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time
The MRes Visual Anthropology offers advanced-level training to students who normally already have an undergraduate or MA degree in Anthropology.
You will gain a wide range of generic training in social science research methods, and in-depth training in anthropological methods and research issues.
The programme also aims to develop understanding of visual theory and practice in order to carry out visual-based research.
The MRes is designed to serve either as the first (training) year of a research degree (MPhil/PhD) for those starting MPhil/PhD studies at Goldsmiths, although it can also be taken as a stand-alone programme.
The programme includes research design, visual practice, qualitative research methods, and a dissertation, which together prepare you for undertaking doctoral research in visual anthropology.
Most direct entrants to the MRes or MPhil already have a first degree or an MA in Social Anthropology. If you don’t have this, you should normally do an MA, or you may be able to take a qualifying year conversion course.
There is little difference between the taught Masters and the qualifying year, except that the qualifying year is not a qualification in itself and involves no dissertation. If you achieve the required standard, you can apply to register for the MRes or MPhil/PhD.
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Our MRes programme will enable you to:
n the week before the beginning of the academic year in mid-September there is an Induction Programme for all new research postgraduates at Goldsmiths.
You will be introduced to College and departmental facilities and procedures, and attend workshops on what is involved in doing a research degree.
The MRes is a training year, in which work on your own research project is coupled with general training in Anthropological and Social Science Methods – as follows:
Doing Ethnography (10 weeks x 2 hrs)
Research Design (10 weeks x 2.5 hrs)
Visual Practice in Anthropology (10 weeks x 2 hrs)
Department of Anthropology Research Seminar
You are encouraged to audit other modules depending on your specific training needs, such as learning a language, or auditing an MA module, either in the Department or elsewhere, of particular relevance to your research project.
You are also encouraged to attend seminars in other parts of the University of London, attend conferences.
There are funds available across the university to enable you to attend such events.
At the end of the year, MRes Visual students present a 10,000-word dissertation with a portfolio of multimodal work in September, which discusses in depth their proposed research topic and the relevant
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