Community Research

Entry requirements

What to upload with your application

• Qualification transcripts and certificates
• English language qualification(s) if English is not your first language
• Certified English translation of your transcripts/certificates where the original transcripts are in a language other than English
• A copy of your Birth Certificate (long document)

English language requirements

Applicants whose first language is not English must provide evidence of either prior successful completion of a degree qualification taught through the medium of English or meet one of the criteria below (no longer than two years prior to application):

• Matriculation examinations from European countries where English is presented as a subject and an acceptable level is achieved
• Irish Leaving Certificate English –Ordinary Level Grade D or above
• TOEFL – 580 (paper based) or 90 (internet based)
• IELTS – Minimum score of 7.0 with no less than 6 in any one component.
• English Test for English and Academic Purposes (ETAPP) – Grade C1
• GCE ‘O’ level English Language/GCSE English Language – Grade C or above
• Cambridge Assessment English –Certificate of Proficiency in English - Grade C / Certificate in Advanced English Grade B
• GCE Examination Boards – Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations – Grade C / Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate – School Certificate Pass 1-6 / University of London Entrance and School Examinations Council – School Certificate Pass 1-6

Results in examinations other than those listed above may also be accepted as meeting our English language requirements. Contact the International Education Division for advice.

Months of entry

September

Course content

Overview

• MA Community Research + Journalism, Department of English, Irish and Communication;
• MA Community Research + Development, Department of Politics and Public Administration.
• MA Community Research + Journalism

• News and feature writing;
• Broadcasting;
• Multimedia journalism;
• Interviewing;
• Investigative reporting;
• Research methods.

The application of these skills across print, broadcast and multimedia journalism is a major part of the course.

• Get practical experience in engaged Research practice and community co-design;
• Develop critical understanding of contemporary national and international institutions supporting development;
• Examine the origins and impacts of contemporary conflicts in the Global South and the complex relations between development and violence;
• An understanding of the key theories, concepts and debates relating to conflict.

Fees and funding

Assessment