Course overview
Embark on this creative practice-based PhD and craft your literary masterpiece. Explore creative and critical practices and be inspired by our award-winning writers and the bustling literary scene on campus and in Birmingham.
Develop your creative and critical practice, whether you're looking for the right environment to work on an extended writing project or want to conduct practice-based research to prepare for an academic career.
You'll join an interdisciplinary Film and Creative Writing department where you'll be supported by writers in your chosen form, whether that's prose, poetry, scriptwriting or hybrid and new forms.
This PhD builds on your writing experience, which might be from an MA in Creative Writing, or from professional publication. By the end of the PhD you'll produce a creative work of publishable quality and complementary critical document.
You can choose to create a long form work or a sequence of related works for your creative document. In the critical document you'll present a structured argument showing your awareness of literary contexts and critical and creative processes.
Course structure
It usually takes three years (full-time) or six years (part-time) to complete a PhD.
The first year (or part-time equivalent) of a PhD usually includes a literature review specific to your critical thesis and topic. You'll begin to undertake your research and relevant training. Your creative piece and critical thesis are usually written in stages over the course of your PhD, and you’ll receive regular feedback.
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