Taught at our state of the art facilities at MediaCityUK and available on either a full-time or a part-time basis, the Masters in Research in Journalism provides an ideal opportunity to enhance your employment prospects, give your existing career path a boost or set the ground for undertaking further research study at doctoral level.

The Masters in Research in Journalism allows you to acquire high level research and project development skills through studying three progressively linked core research modules: Research Methods and Methodologies, Formulating Research Projects; and the MRes Research Project.

While doing this, you will choose from a range of leading edge options available at taught Masters level in Journalism at Salford.

This course allows you to gain high level knowledge of research techniques and theories and to put these into practice in a field of your choice through an individually designed and organised major research project in your chosen field of journalism.  

Course details

Full-time

If you take the full-time MRes (Journalism), you will study a core research module in each semester, each of which develops your knowledge and skills in research and culminates in the production of a 60 credit Research Project on an aspect of Journalism of your choosing. Complementing your study of research processes and techniques in semesters one and two, you will be able to choose an optional module from the taught postgraduate suite in Journalism at Salford. The work that you do here will enrich your subject knowledge of Journalism to a high level and, additionally, can be applied to the design and completion of the MRes Research Project in Semester 3.

Semester 1

Core Module: Research Methods and Methodologies

One elective module from the Semester 1 MA provision within the Journalism directorate

Semester 2

Core Module: Formulating Research Projects

One elective module from the Semester 2 MA provision within the Journalism directorate

Semester 3

The MRes Research Project

Elective modules

Indicative list of the elective module options within the Journalism directorate:

Law and Government for Journalists

News and Ethics

Creative Networking

European and Global Media Policy

Multi-Platform Journalism

Sports Reporting

Journalism Online

Community Project

Broadcast Journalism

Digital Culture

Part-time

If you study the MRes (Journalism) on a part-time basis, in Year 1 you will take the Research Methods and Methodologies module, followed in semester 2 by an option of your choice from the taught postgraduate suite of modules in Journalism at Salford. In semester 3, you will study the Formulating Research Projects module. Your Year 2 studies will commence with an option of your choosing from the taught postgraduate suite of modules in Journalism at Salford, leading, in semesters 2 and 3, to the completion of the MRes Research Project.

Year 1, Semester 1

Core Module: Research Methods and Methodologies

Year 1, Semester 2

One elective module from the  Semester 2 MA provision within the Journalism directorate

Year 1, Semester 3

Core Module: Formulating Research Projects

Year 2, Semester 1

One elective module from the Semester 1 MA provision within the Journalism directorate

Year 2, Semesters 2 and 3

The MRes Research Project

Elective modules

Indicative list of the elective module options within the Journalism directorate:

Law & Government for Journalists

News and Ethics

Creative Networking

European and Global Media Policy

Multi-Platform Journalism

Sports Reporting

Journalism Online

Community Project

Broadcast Journalism

Digital Culture

Course Enquiries

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