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Postgraduate subject

Creative Practice

09 October 2024
Explore your creative practice through original PhD research and practical works.
HOW TO APPLY

Enrolments opening soon

This new programme is subject to Te Amorangi Mātauranga Matua | Tertiary Education Commission approval.

Some details may change before the PhD in Creative Practice is open to enrolments from 2025.

Overview


Creative Practice

Introduction

Combine your artistic practice with research insights through creative PhD studies, producing both a thesis and a body of creative work in your field.

The Creative Practice PhD study at UC covers a range of artistic media, from creative writing, music, film, visual arts, to dance or dramatic performance, and more.

Study in a diverse creative environment at UC, with the opportunity to engage and collaborate with others studying creative practice across a range of disciplines.

Art piece by a UC student as part of a UC Fine Arts Open Studio event.

Creative Practice

What will my study involve?

  • Doctoral studies in artistic practices such as creative writing, fine arts, digital screen, dance and moving arts, journalism, filmmaking, music composing and performance, toi Māori, creative technology, and more.
  • Complete both a research thesis and body of creative work reflecting your artistic media.
  • Build connections and engage with the wider creative industry within Canterbury for your research project through UC's contacts.

Creative Practice

Courses

The Creative Practice PhD involves producing both a written thesis of at least 40,000 words and a body of creative work.

Depending on your practice, this could be in the form of an exhibition, performance, written publication, recordings, film documentary, or other creative media.

See the Doctor of Philosophy for more information on requirements.

Creative Practice

Career opportunities

Creative Practice provides the opportunity for the production of ground-breaking postgraduate research in an interdisciplinary space. Graduates develop a deep knowledge of practice, theory, and scholarship across their areas of creative research.

Along with research skills, your studies will build on your technical, critical, and artistic skills relevant to creative industries.

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Postgraduate Prospectus 2025

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