| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-26 | 2023-06-01 |
| 2024-01-23 | 2023-10-16 |
Program Overview
Course summary
Highly flexible and with a focus on one-to-one supervision throughout the course, you can tailor this MRes around your research and career plans. You’ll graduate with knowledge of research design, methods and processes, together with the creative, critical, reflexive, and analytical mindset that employers desire. The MRes can also be used as a stepping-stone to further research at PhD level.
From the outset, you will be paired with an experienced supervisor to support your personal and professional development, working together to advance your research interests and develop your individual research, writing and communications skills.
On the MRes Humanities (Music) pathway, you’ll be taught by staff with an international reputation for excellence in practice-led research in composition and music technology, and text-based research in musicology. With a focus on 20th and 21st century music, our shared research interests include instrumental and electroacoustic composition, sound design, game audio, aesthetics, music and the moving image, narrative, social context, embodiment and gesture and other related areas.
You'll develop key transferrable skills in research, analysis and communication to enhance your career prospects across a range of sectors or to prepare you for further academic study.
As part of the bespoke
Individual Research Orientation
module, you’ll agree a tailored learning plan to expand your knowledge, skills and experience. For example, you can learn a foreign language, study subject matter from a different discipline like statistical modelling or improve your ability to read old manuscripts.Using our contacts or through your own networks, you can also undertake a work experience placement here in the UK or abroad. In the past, our students have helped staged exhibitions, catalogued an archive, reviewed educational material and reflected on the selection of historical textbooks in a school.
The School of Humanities benefits from world-leading and internationally excellent research across the main areas of humanities: English Literature; Creative Writing; English and American Literature; Film Studies; History; Media, Communications and Creative Practice; and Music and Music Technology.
This wide range of staff expertise not only enables us to offer five specialist pathways (in English, Film, History, Media, or Music), but also considerably broadens the scope for potential interdisciplinary research topics. This makes it an ideal choice for students who want the freedom to conduct in-depth research on a subject of their choosing, while also receiving the guidance expected of a taught master’s.
Keele is a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership (
NWCDTP
) and the Economic and Social Research Council's North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (NWSSDTP
). These both offer financial support to outstanding UK students in applicable disciplines.Other courses you might be interested in: