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12016-06-27T06:02:55-07:00Lyle Skains8ec9a01530aed114a2d78c359a32a6560b8c2714101231plain2244682016-06-27T06:02:55-07:00Lyle Skains8ec9a01530aed114a2d78c359a32a6560b8c2714Many creative artists enter into postgraduate degrees from a simple desire to create more, write more, produce more, and to become better at their craft. Certain degrees, most notably the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) cater to this desire and this desire alone.
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.
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12016-06-27T06:02:56-07:00Lyle Skains8ec9a01530aed114a2d78c359a32a6560b8c2714ExercisesLyle Skains1Exercises for developing and planning your practice-based research projectplain2244712016-06-27T06:02:56-07:00Lyle Skains8ec9a01530aed114a2d78c359a32a6560b8c2714
12016-06-27T06:02:55-07:00Lyle Skains8ec9a01530aed114a2d78c359a32a6560b8c2714Option 1: Brainstorming a Project1plain2016-06-27T06:02:55-07:00Lyle Skains8ec9a01530aed114a2d78c359a32a6560b8c2714
12016-06-27T06:02:56-07:00Lyle Skains8ec9a01530aed114a2d78c359a32a6560b8c2714Option 2: Developing Your Practice Research Project1plain2016-06-27T06:02:56-07:00Lyle Skains8ec9a01530aed114a2d78c359a32a6560b8c2714