| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-19 | - |
Program Overview
This course has been devised for creative practitioners, recent graduates and professionals who wish to examine, strengthen and deepen their practice within their own context.
This course offers a bespoke learning experience that is tailored to each student’s practice. A wide range of creative practitioners have all graduated from this course.
MA Creative Practice encourages you to pursue an individual research interest for the duration of your study. Allowing you to examine and strengthen your own practice and place it at the centre of your studies in a transdisciplinary learning context. The course addresses the needs of graduates and practitioners who want to continue to develop their practice and identities in the creative and cultural industries.
You will be encouraged to maintain contact with other creative practitioners and develop freelance or other creative career paths within a portfolio career. This course will also support and prepare you to develop ideas for application to a practice-based PhD.
The course provides formal opportunities where you will be taught with students from other postgraduate courses. This rich transdisciplinary approach is practice-research led and uses a range of research methods to expand your critical thinking, helping you to deliver innovative creative outcomes. The shared entrepreneurial modules aim to enhance your analytic and presentational skills, giving you the opportunity to position yourself professionally to a range of audiences.
Program Outline
Access to specialist resources for MA Creative Practice students is negotiated based on their specific individual research interests and skill set.
Our courses are subject to regular review during which we may adjust aspects of the curriculum to ensure that it is current and reflects development in the subject area. This course is currently undergoing Periodic Review. If you apply for this course we will inform you of any changes at the earliest opportunity.
Our postgraduate courses are transdisciplinary and underpinned by independent learning. You will be supported with a variety of teaching and learning methods, including individual supervision, group tutorials, live briefs and project proposals, as well as being encouraged to collaborate with students from other postgraduate courses.
Our academic staff are engaged in contemporary practice in their specialism and will support, encourage and challenge you during your studies. You will be taught in a vibrant and bespoke postgraduate suite. All postgraduate students are taught together in research methods and business-related modules.
Postgraduate courses can be studied either full-time over 36 weeks or part-time over 72 weeks. Teaching is broken down into three teaching blocks per year, each comprising 12 weeks.
Students are able to access a range of specialist facilities aligned to their research interest.
Our postgraduate minimum requirements are:
Applicants who hold a degree from another discipline or have experiential learning in lieu of a degree that can demonstrate appropriate knowledge and skills may also be considered for entry, subject to a satisfactory portfolio of related work in support of their application.
Examples of work
For all postgraduate courses you will need:
English Language Requirements
Leeds Arts University will accept IELTS (International English Language Testing System) with a minimum overall score of 6.0, with no individual component below 5.5, as being the minimum acceptable level for English Language proficiency. Comparable English Language Tests may also be considered and further information is available on the Home Office website.
You must also supply one reference to support your application. This may be from an academic or a creative practitioner.
Applicants who meet the entry requirements above will be required to submit a personal statement outlining their intentions for MA study.
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
Leeds Arts University has a commitment to widening access to higher education. The University demonstrates this commitment through its widening participation schemes, arrangements for transfer and recognition of prior learning.
