Theatre Studies

Entry requirements

Our regular standard of admission is at least an Upper Second Class Honours degree (2:1), although candidates will usually also have completed or be undertaking a Masters qualification.

Research proposal

Candidates are required to provide an outline of the proposed research subject in about 1000 words. This need not be a final thesis proposal but should include:

• a straightforward, descriptive, and informative title
• the question that your research will address
• an account of why this question is important and worth investigating
• an assessment of how your own research will engage with recent study in the subject
• a brief account of the methodology and approach you will take
• a discussion of the primary sources that your research will draw upon, including printed books, manuscripts, archives, libraries, or museums
• an indicative bibliography of secondary sources that you have already consulted and/or are planning to consult

Your application, including your references and research proposal, will be passed to members of staff whose expertise and research interests most closely match the area of your proposed study.

Months of entry

Anytime

Course content

Our outward-looking, multi-disciplinary research activities are based on high-quality, challenging and flexible graduate programmes.

We offer postgraduate research students a wide range of options for independent study, from one-year taught degrees to three-year doctoral programmes. In undertaking such a programme, you will be joining a thriving and vibrant postgraduate community. We welcome students from a variety of backgrounds, working on areas of specialist interest using methods from the arts, humanities and social sciences, including, where appropriate, research through practice.

Topics in which we would welcome postgraduate research include:

• Dramaturgical Practices/Playwriting
• Contemporary European/UK Theatre/Performance Practices
• Live Art / Interdisciplinary Arts Practice
• Media & Digital Arts
• Ecology/Environment/Heritage
• History/Historiography
• Queer/Gender Theory
• Social/Political Arts Practices and Theory

Theatre, Film and Television Studies and the Centre for Cultural Policy Research (environment) was rated joint first place and in the Top 20 for (overall and outputs) in the latest research excellence framework (REF 2014).

Find out more about our Theatre Studies research.

Information for international students

International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Academic module (not General Training)

• 7.0 with no sub-test under 7.0.
• Tests must have been taken within 2 years 5 months of start date. Applicants must meet the overall and subtest requirements using a single test.