MPhil & PhD in Creative Writing
Jack, PhD in Creative Writing
3-4 years full-time or 4-6 years part-time.
Find out more about applying
If your degree is in an unrelated field, you may be considered subject to a qualifying interview and/or submission of sample essays. If your first language is not English, please check our English Language requirements.
For information on College and departmental bursaries please see the Department of English & Comparative Literature.
Publishing, journalism, public relations, teaching, advertising, the civil service, business, media.
Transferable skills, including enhanced communication and discussion skills in written and oral contexts; the ability to analyse and evaluate different textual materials, the ability to organise information, and to assimilate and evaluate competing arguments.
Please see Tuition fees.
Please see Staff research interests.
Contact Maria Macdonald
The inter-relationship between theory, scholarship and the creative process is key to the Goldsmiths MPhil/PhD in Creative Writing. Before applying, you will find it helpful to discuss your research/writing plan with an appropriate member of staff in the Department: please contact the Postgraduate Secretary, Maria Macdonald (as below) and see staff research interests. Doctoral students for the PhD in Creative Writing are expected to combine their own creative writing with research into the genre or area of literature in which they are working, to gain insight into its history, development and contemporary practices. This might be genre in the more traditional sense, for example satire, fictional autobiography, verse drama, or particular traditions to which they feel their work relates, for example projective verse; postmodernist fiction; Caribbean poetics. They are also expected to engage with relevant contemporary debates about theory and practice.
Find out more about our research degrees, including information about starting your research, upgrading to PhD registration, and submitting your thesis. North American applicants especially should note that the British system does not include preparatory taught classes or examinations as part of the MPhil/PhD programme, except for an initial course in research methods.
Assessment
Thesis and viva voce.
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