Exercise: Beginning Your Research Project
Others, including most MAs and PhDs in the UK, are research-based degrees. These courses help you to become better at your craft, but that's only half of what they're designed to do. The other half is academic research. For most creative research degrees, this will consist of practice-related research, either practice-based or practice-led.
These are often new concepts, to postgraduate researchers and research faculty alike. It's important you understand the research you are undertaking as part of your degree from the start of your project.