MRes/PgDip/PgCert

Media

3 good reasons to study MRes Media at Salford:

Gain the high level research and project development skills invaluable in Media
Develop in-depth knowledge of a key chosen aspect of the Media sector
Acquire research and subject skills through working with leading academics at MediaCityUK

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 Media 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 Media 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 Media at Salford (see below).

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 media.

Course details

Full-time

If you take the full-time MRes (Media), you will study a core research module per semester, each of which develops your knowledge and skills in research and culminates in the production of a 60 credit MRes Research Project or piece of media practice as research on any aspect of Media of your choosing. Complementing your study of research processes, practices and techniques in semesters one and two, you will be able to choose an optional module from the taught postgraduate suite in creative media at Salford. The work that you do in these modules will enrich your subject knowledge of media and 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 Media directorate

Semester 2

Core Module: Formulating Research Projects

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

Semester 3

The MRes Research Project

Elective modules

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

Creative Development Project

Post Production Practice and Theory

Producing

Collaborative Projects

Advanced Audio Post Production Practices and Techniques

Advanced Post Production Practice and Techniques

Advanced Production Practices and Techniques

Animation Character Development

Collaboration Project

Entertaining Children and Young People

Practice Research Project

Part-time

If you take the MRes (Media) on a part-time basis, in year one, semester one you will study the Research Methods and Methodologies module, followed, in semester 2, by an option of your choice from the taught postgraduate suite of modules in Media at Salford. In semester 3 you will study the Formulating Research Projects module. In Year 2, your study will commence with an option from the taught postgraduate suite of modules 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 Media 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 Media directorate

Year 2, Semesters 2 and 3

The MRes Research Project

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

Creative Development Project

Post Production Practice & Theory

Producing

Collaborative Projects

Advanced Audio Post Production Practices and Techniques

Advanced Post Production Practice and Techniques

Advanced Production Practices and Techniques

Animation Character Development

Collaboration Project

Entertaining Children and Young People

Practice Research Project

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