Program Overview

Visual Culture MRes

Research Overview

This MRes is designed for those passionate about digging deeper into art history. It provides the time, support, and skills to carry out research.

Specialisations

• Nineteenth-century art and cultural exchange
  • Issues of national identity, intercultural contact, migration, and innovation
• Collecting, reception, and revival
  • Issues of display, imperialism, power, travel, and memory
• Photography, film, and spectatorship
  • Issues of representation, status, politics, and relationships to other media
• Politics and identity
  • Issues of gender, class, race, identity, propaganda, power, protest, and memory

Who is the MRes for?

• Those who cannot commit to a PhD but still have a topic they want to research further
• Those whose topic doesn't require three years of PhD study
• Those who want to develop their research and academic skills before starting a PhD

Course Content

• Research dissertation (120 credits)
• Taught modules (60 credits)
• Students must choose 60 credits from:
  • Arts in Society
  • Mastering the Arts
  • Issues and Challenges in Contemporary Media
  • Technology and the Transformations of Communication
  • MRes Research Skills 1

Entry Requirements

• Home / UK students: 2:1 (or international equivalent) in art history or a related subject
• EU / International students: 2:1 (or international equivalent) in art history or a related subject
• English language requirements: IELTS 7.0 (no less than 6.0 in any element)

Applying

• We encourage you to get in touch with a member of academic staff about your research proposal before submitting an application
• Most students start the course in September but February starts are also possible
• How to apply: contact our postgraduate admissions tutor Dr. Mark Rawlinson

Fees

• Home / UK: £5,006
• International: £23,000

Support

• Research seminars
• Digital Transformations Hub
• Crop up gallery
• Language learning
• Researcher training and development
• Graduate centres
• Student support

Careers

• Careers advice
• Graduate destinations
• Career progression
• Placements
• Hollywood Internships programme

Research Excellence Framework

• The University of Nottingham is ranked 7th in the UK for research power
• 90% of our research environment recognised as of world leading quality
• 100% of our impact case studies recognised as having outstanding or very considerable impact
• 90%* of our research is classed as 'world-leading' (4) or 'internationally excellent' (3)
• 100%* of our research is recognised internationally
• 51% of our research is assessed as 'world-leading' (4*) for its impact**