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Whet he r you are
looking fo r full or
par t-time study,
Cardiff Metro politan
University is an
ex cellent choice for
postgraduate study. ’
We pride ourselves on
having a strong reputation in A GLOBAL UNIVERSITY >>
applied research and active We educate students from over 140 Countries
engagement with business worldwide.
and industry. We can offer a
wide range of first-class A THRIVING POSTGRADUATE COMMUNITY >>
taught courses and unique Postgraduates make up 36% of our total student
research opportunities population – the highest proportion of all Welsh
across our five academic universities.
schools, all designed to help
you further your career. INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED RESEARCH >>
Results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise
recognised our success in supporting the development
of world class and internationally leading research.
INVESTING IN YOUR FUTURE >>
£50million planned investment on upgrading our
estates and student facilities.
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www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/postgraduate
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4. Investing in YO UR future
The university prides itself on providing modern, we ll equipped
buildings wit h all t he facilities t hat a student needs to succeed.
’ >>
It was announced in 2011 that the
Cardiff School of Art & Design will
Over the last few years open a brand new, £10million,
considerable investment has state-of-the-art facility in 2014 at
the Llandaff Campus.
been made across the whole
of the university, with over
£50million of planned
We are a forward t hinking
investment in estate
institution and we are
developments alone, that proud of our reputation for
include: providing a student centred
approach to learning. We
>>
want t his excellence and
The award winning, £21million
quality to be reflected in
state-of-art Management Building
our new buildings by
was opened in Autumn 2010 at the
creating an environment fit
Llandaff Campus.
for 21st century higher
education.
>>
A new Learning Centre and
Fur t her inform ation:
refurbished Student Centre, also
opened in 2010, both at the www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/
Llandaff Campus. investing
>>
The £4.9million Food Industry
Centre at the Llandaff Campus was
opened in 2009.
>>
Opened in 2010 and based at the
Llandaff Campus, the iZone is an
innovative and integrated service
hub for current and potential
students. Im ages from top to bottom:
// Cardiff School of Management
>> // Learning Centre
// Food Industry Centre
A new Campus Centre opened at // iZone
the Cycnoed Campus in 2009.
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CONTENTS
INVESTING IN YOUR FUTURE 2
CARDIFF 4
TRAVEL TO CARDIFF 6
CO URSE DIRECTORY 8
RESEARCH CENTRES AND GROUPS 10
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES 16
CARDIFF SCHOOL of ART & DESIGN 20
CARDIFF SCHOOL of EDUCATION 34
CARDIFF SCHOOL of HEALTH SC IENCES 48
CARDIFF SCHOOL of MANAGEMENT 68
CARDIFF SCHOOL of SP ORT 88
A DM ISSIO NS AND ENTRY REQUIREMENTS 106
CPPD/CWBL 108
TUITION FEES AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT 109
ST UDENT SUPPORT SERVICES 110
INTERNATIO NAL ST UDENTS 112
ST UDENT FACILITIES AND LEARNING CENTRES 1 14
SP O RT FO R ALL 1 16
AL UMNI 118
INDEX 1 19
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6. CARDIFF
Cardiff is an exciting, modern European capital city, which punches well above its
weight for its size and was recently described as t he ‘epitome of cool’ in t he renowned
Lonely Planet travel guide and as a top travel destination by National Geographic
Magazine.
’ SOCIAL SCENE thriving scene. The Motorpoint
Arena and Millennium Stadium
Traditional student areas in Cardiff host all the big-name tours, while
ABOUT THE CITY smaller independent venues like
are Roath and Cathays - where
there are plenty of pubs, cafes, bars Clwb Ifor Bach and the Students
Europes youngest capital packs all
and shops. Whether you’re looking Union bars are home to more
the benefits of a major
to watch sport on a big screen with intimate music nights. The
cosmopolitan destination into a
a cheap meal and a drink, or prefer renowned Swn Festival takes place
friendly, affordable and easy to
cocktails in a trendy cafe with live every October, promoting new
navigate space and is a great place
music, this is an area which caters music coming in and out of Wales.
to live and study as a student.
for every taste.
St David’s Hall in the city centre
An impressive civic centre with and the Glee Club in Cardiff Bay
In the city centre, pubs and bars sit
wonderful buildings, including the are both great venues for live
alongside super-clubs which all
National Museum of Wales is comedy, and if film is your thing,
host weekly student nights and
surrounded by acres of parkland, a Cardiff is home to 3 mulitplex
drinks offers. Cardiff’s ‘Cafe
thriving city centre, a brand new cinemas as well as a fantastic
Quarter’ on Mill Lane is popular for
shopping and entertainment centre independent cinema with bar and
it‘s stylish late-night bar and
and Victorian boutique shopping cafe at the award-winning Chapter
restaurant scene.
arcades, world-class sporting Arts Centre.
stadiums, and a lively Cafe Quarter
If you enjoy eating out Cardiff has
which stretches down to a stunning For theatre and musical fans,
plenty to offer. Whether tapas,
waterfront area with bars and The Wales Millennium Centre in
fajitas, steak, sushi or a full Welsh
restaurants at Cardiff Bay. Cardiff Bay is a world-famous,
breakfast is your thing, you won’t
struggle to find something good to iconic theatre and arts venue.
As the Welsh capital, Cardiff boasts
eat in Cardiff. From waterside fine
an excellent, year-round calendar Cardiff is also home to an
dining in Cardiff Bay, to
of events and culture; from theatre, excellent selection of sporting
independent cafes and restaurants
comedy and concerts to music and events, from international cricket
in Roath and Cathays, Cardiff is a
food festivals and major sporting at the SWALEC stadium, to rugby
great, affordable city to enjoy
events. and football at the Millennium
eating out. Cardiff is also home to a
major international food festival Stadium and Cardiff City Stadium,
every summer in Cardiff Bay. as well as the annual Speedway
For music lovers, Cardiff has a motorsport and Wales GB Rally.
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Beyond The City Cardiff students can enjoy surfing, hiking or horse riding and again are only
sailing or sunbathing at world-class a short distance from the city itself.
Cardiff has to be one of the UK’s best- beaches within an hour’s drive from the Indoor climbing centres, white water
placed cities for outdoor activities. With city. rafting and ice skating are also all
Wales’ coastline being named as ‘the possible in the city.
greatest region on earth to visit in 2012’ In-land, the Brecon Beacons are
by travellers’ bible Lonely Planet, stunning areas for mountain biking,
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8. TRAVEL TO CARDIFF
’ 4 By bus Llandaff Campus
The central bus station is adjacent Post Code fo r GPS:
to the central railway station. Local CF5 2YB
1 By car
services connect to all campuses. This is located on Western Avenue
The M4 motorway lies just a mile or
(A48).
so to the north of the city centre
5 By air
giving easy access to London and
Cardiff International Airport is Plas Gw yn
the South East or, via the M5, to the
approximately twelve miles from (Halls of Residence)
Midlands, the South West and the
the city centre. There are regular Post Code fo r GPS:
North.
services to many British cities and CF5 2XJ
to other European capitals. From the A48 follow the signs for
2 By train
Llandaff. Take Cardiff Road to
Rail travel is just as easy. A good rail
Llantrisant Road.
network links Cardiff to all parts of
Wales and there are fast, daily HOW TO FIND US
The campus is on the left, opposite
services to other major cities and
Directions by Car: the main BBC building.
London is only two hours away by
Inter-City.
Cyncoed Campus
The main station for Inter-City Post Code for GPS:
services is Cardiff Central in the city CF5 6XD
centre. It’s a short distance from From the A48(M) Eastern Avenue,
our Howard Gardens campus, and travel via Llanedeyrn Road to
approximately 2.5 miles from the Cyncoed Road.
campuses at Llandaff and Cyncoed.
Taxis and buses to all the campuses Howard Gardens Campus
and halls of residence are available Post Code for GPS:
from the station. Local train CF24 0SP
services operate from both the From the A48 Eastern Avenue,
Cardiff Central and Queen Street follow signs for Newport Road
stations. (A4161) and the city centre.
3 By coach Nearing the city centre follow the
National coach services operate direction sign for the Howard
from the city centre bus station, Gardens Gallery, the turning is on
adjacent to the central railway the left.
station.
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TRAVEL DISTANCES:
Birmingham 110 miles
Bristol 47 miles
Gloucester 57 miles
Hull 251 miles
Leeds 236 miles
Liverpool 202 miles
London 153 miles
Manchester 190 miles
Newcastle upon Tyne 319 miles
Newport 15 miles
Oxford 108 miles
Plymouth 160 miles
Southampton 122 miles
Swansea 41 miles
’ Information supplied by RAC
Motoring Services.
More detailed directions can be
accessed on our website at
www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/
findus
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12. RESEARCH
CENTRES & GROUPS
The National Centre fo r products, automotive, medical and
Product Design & defence.
Development Research
(PDR)
Designated a national Centre of CARDIFF SC HOOL
Excellence for Technology & of ART & DESIGN
Industrial Collaboration, PDR works
in close partnership with Wales Institute for
manufacturing industries, Research in Ar t and Design
particularly small and medium sized (WIRAD)
enterprises (SMEs) and Much of the schools research is
government bodies, offering conducted through the Wales
applied research and consultancy Institute for Research in Art and
in the fields of product design, Design (WIRAD). WIRAD’s
development and manufacture. founding partners, Cardiff
PDR’s mission is to aid the Metropolitan University and the
development and adaptation of University of Wales, Newport
new processes, tools and scored 4 and 5 respectively in the
techniques for use in new product 2001 RAE. In the 2008 RAE the Art
development. & Design panel rated 95% of the
WIRAD research submission as
The centres research team is made international standard, with 70%
up of senior and junior researchers, rated as either internationally
research assistants and research excellent or world leading. World
students. The focus of this team is leading research was specifically
on research which reflects the noted by the panel in the film
strategic importance of the creative photography & screen media, fine
application of design and the art and ceramics research groups.
design process in the development
of new products, systems and
methodologies. As a result PDR has
gained an enviable reputation for
the development and transfer of
design knowledge and expertise
into industry. This is evidenced by
the number of products produced
(over 350) for a wide range of
clients to include consumer
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Research at t he university is organised t hrough a number of research centres, offe ring
applied research and consultancy to business and industry, and to local and national
government across t he UK and t hroughout t he wo rld.
CARDIFF SC HOOL the latest analytical equipment. In Further information:
of EDUCATION addition to research funded by www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/
medical charities, government and research
Pedagogy and Andragogy industry, the centre provides a
Research Group (PARG) range of consultancy services to the
The PARG group focus their private sector.
research on the following areas:
// Culture and Pedagogy Centre for Healt h Safety
// Higher Education and t he Environment
// Physical Education The centre delivers applied
// ICT in Education research and consultancy in
// Language in Education occupational and personal health
// Music Education and safety, environmental risk
// Early Years and Outdoor management, pollution and health
Learning and waste management. It works
// Adult and Continuing closely with industry and has a
Education. collaborative programme with the
School of Professional and
Ar ts and Hum anities Continuing Education at the
Research Group (AHRG) University of Hong Kong.
The AHRG group focus their
research on the following areas: Centre for Nutrition,
History and Politics; Identities; Dietetics and Food
Space, place and location; Internationally recognised for
Creativity. applied food safety research, the
unit has a world leading reputation
for research on the psychology of
food handlers’ behaviour. The unit
CARDIFF SC HOOL of
delivers applied research and
HEALTH SCIENCES
consultancy in food science,
nutrition & health for numerous
Ce ntre for Biomedical
clients including the Food
Research
Standards Agency, Welsh
The centre has an international
Government and industry.
reputation for research on the
biology of disease with a focus on
molecular and cell biology.
Researchers have access to state-
of-the-art laboratories and
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CENTRES & GROUPS
Zero 2 Five speech & language therapy, dental
Food Industry Centre technology, housing and
Nationally recognised as a partner community studies.
in Food Network Wales, the Food
Industry Centre provides technical Psychological Research
expertise to the Welsh Food The Department of Psychology
Industry and undertakes are currently engaged in a range
consultancy services and training of applied research projects. The
programmes for a wide range of university has invested heavily in
clients, both in the UK and the development of Psychology
overseas. postgraduate research
infrastructure, with the
Wales Centre for Podiatric development of our new
Studies postgraduate research resource
Celebrating 50 years of training centre. Psychology at Cardiff
health care professionals, the fosters a synergistic approach to
Centre delivers a range of research and postgraduate learning
academic programmes and by offering a range of postgraduate
enterprise activities, ensuring the taught programmes along with the
best integration of theory and opportunity to engage in
evidence-based practice. individualised MPhil/PhD research
The Centre uses its own facilities programmes.
including three large clinics,
laboratories, x-ray unit and a
private practice facility. CARDIFF SC HOOL of
MA NAGEMENT
Centre for Applied Social
Science Cardiff Institute for Co-
This unit acts both independently, operative Studies (CICS)
and in collaboration with other CICS was formerly known as The
higher education institutions, Wales Institute for Research into
health and social care providers Co-operatives (WIRC), was
and the voluntary sector. It established in 2002 as in
provides a committed and unique interdisciplinary research centre.
team of researchers to meet WIRC was the first Wales-based
applied research needs in health research centre working to focus
and social care including primarily on exploring and
psychology, nutrition & dietetics, developing knowledge about co-
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operatives, credit unions, mutuals between Cardiff Metropolitan Further information:
and member-based organisations University and Bangor University www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/
in the region. and in 2009 CLEC was awarded a research
£3.8m contract from the Wales
Centre for Visioning European Funding Office to run a
Sustainable Societies major leadership development
The Centre acts as a catalyst for the course for business owners and
development of cross school managers – The 20Twenty
research activity, generating journal Leadership programme.
articles, conference papers and
applications for research funding The Welsh Centre for
and Knowledge Transfer Tourism Research (WCTR)
Partnerships relating to the areas of Established in 2001, it is one of the
sustainable development, global most recognised centres of
citizenship and ethics. research excellence at the
university and the only UK research
The Centre assists in the Schools centre of its kind to be rated as
response to the Welsh Government producing world-leading and
and the Higher Education Funding internationally excellent research.
Council for Wales agenda for In the 2008 Research Assessment
integrating issues of sustainable Exercise the WCTR was the only
development and global citizenship tourism research centre in the UK
into the undergraduate and to have its own research profile.
postgraduate curricula.
The Centre is home to a
Creative Leadership and burgeoning suite of international
Ente rprise Centre (CLEC) projects and networks which focus
CLEC was established at the Cardiff on the linkages between tourism
School of Management in May and sustainable economic
2007. It delivers top class development, inequality, injustice
leadership training to the future and poverty alleviation.
leaders of both private and public
sector organisations. It also carries
out research projects on local
enterprise and SMEs. CLEC is
currently running a pan-Wales Post
Graduate Certificate in Leadership
for Collaboration, a joint project
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16. RESEARCH
CENTRES & GROUPS
CARDIFF SCHOOL Spor t Psychology Research
of SPO RT Group
Sport Psychology research
National Indoor At hletics examines a range of psychological
Centre (NIAC) factors within sport and physical
Wales’ £7 million indoor athletics education. Main areas include:
centre, housed at the Cyncoed Competition and organisational
campus is a state-of-the-art stress; positive organisational
athletics centre, that offers multi- psychology, mental toughness; the
sport provision and includes a psychology of sports injuries and
sports injuries clinic and bio- social support; reflective practice
mechanics laboratory. NIAC puts and consultant effectiveness; goal
the university at the forefront of setting practices; motivational
performance facilities in the UK. It theory and climate; and self-
is the only designated ‘High confidence.
Performance Centre’ in Wales and
has hosted many national and Physiology and Healt h
international events. Research Group
The physiology and health team
Centre for Perform ance are engaged with a broad range of
Analysis research, ranging from the
The performance analysis research physiology underpinning elite
group are working in the following performance to the role of exercise
areas; feedback technology, in the management and treatment
developing theoretical models of of disease. Recent projects have
sports performance, application of examined; the impact of the playing
performance analysis in the surface on the development of
coaching process, selection and fatigue, the use of functional
judging contexts, work-rate electrical stimulated rowing to
analysis, analysis of injury risk, improve cardiovascular function in
tactics in sport and technical people with spinal cord injury, the
effectiveness role of exercise in cardiac
rehabilitation and the development
of talent in children.
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Spor t Biomechanics Sociology and Philosophy Further information:
Research Group of Spor t Research Group www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/
The internationally recognised The group’s research interests are research
Sports Biomechanics research wide-ranging and include aspects
group is based in the National of social interaction, ethnography,
Indoor Athletics Centre, and philosophy and ethics. The
equipped with modern research staff’s work is concerned
measurement systems, including with gender, ‘race’ and ethnicity,
novel athlete worn wireless embodiment and identity. These
sensors. We investigate two major are reflected in research on sports
research themes; the coaching- coaching, socio-political theory,
biomechanics interface and sports moral development and sport and
medicine. Our global aim is to leisure cultures. There is a strong
enhance performance and reduce interest in research methodology,
injury. ethnography, action research, and
research ethics.
Spor t Coaching Research
Group
The sports coaching academic area
at the university is diverse and wide
ranging. Although principally
driven by a perception of coaching
as a complex social endeavour
contributions to a holistic view of
the activity come from many
quarters. These include
considering coaching from the
perspectives of reflective practice,
chaos theory, change management,
and as a ‘community of practice’
Investigations are also under way in
relation to the delivery of sports
coaching units (e.g., PBL, action
research and ethno-drama), in
addition to exploring various
formats through which the social
phenomenon of coaching can be
represented.
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18. RESEARCH
OPPORTUNITIES
’ You can study for a research degree completion of a preliminary
full or part-time which may take programme (usually one year full-
place entirely on campus, or at your time or two years part-time to
All five of our academics place of work, or a combination of transfer to PhD, or completion of
schools provide both. the MRes programme to transfer to
opportunities to undertake a Professional Doctorate).
supervised research leading Additional opportunities are
to the awards of Master of available to study for the awards of The Program mes
Philosophy (MPhil) or Doctor Master of Research (MRes) or The awards of MPhil and PhD are
of Philosophy (PhD). Professional Doctorate; the achieved through a sustained piece
designation varies with the of original investigative research
professional area - Doctor of and the presentation of a thesis.
Education, (Ed.D) Doctor of The university provides all its
Tourism (DTourism), Doctor of research students with expert
Biomedical Science (DBMS), supervision and facilities relevant to
Information Systems (Dlnfosys) and their chosen area of research. Each
Doctor of Business Administration research degree candidate has a
(DBA). supervisory team of two or three
members of academic staff, one of
whom acts as the candidate’s
PERIOD OF ST UDY Director of Studies.
MPhil or MRes All candidates for MPhil or PhD are
The period of study for MPhil is required to undertake a
usually between one and two years compulsory programme in research
full-time, or between two and five methods, which better equips them
years part-time. The period of to undertake research. The
study for MRes is usually between programme is free to all students
three and four year years full-time, accepted for admission and is
and between four and seven years usually undertaken within three
part-time. months of enrolment.
Entry Conditions Professional Doctorates
Applicants without a Masters The Professional Doctorate
degree may register for a Masters programme includes:
by research with the possibility of
transfering to the Doctoral // Taught modules of an advanced
programme, subject to satisfactory nature concerned with
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professionally-relevant knowledge APPLICATIO N FO R The university will notify you of the
// Opportunities to apply ADM ISSIO N outcome as soon as possible. If you
knowledge further in the work are made a conditional offer of
place You are required to submit an initial admission you will need to fulfil any
// A requirement for the creation application form, which will enable requirements that are stipulated
of new professional knowledge. the university to identify an and provide relevant documentary
appropriate academic school within evidence before you are permitted
The Professional Doctorate is which the research project will be to enrol. For more information:
differentiated from a PhD because located. www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/howtoapply
it is a professional qualification that
includes taught, experiential and You may apply at any time of year
research elements at doctoral level. although you are advised to do so ENROLMENT
The Professional Doctorate as early as possible prior to your
incorporates a variety of forms of intended commencement, Enrolment takes place three times a
cohort-based and individualised particularly if you are seeking year, at the start of each academic
learning appropriate to the very external sponsorship from a term (September, January and
highest levels of achievement: research council or charitable trust. April). At enrolment you will be
didactic teaching, questioning and required to bring your original
debate, enquiry based learning, Applications are considered by the degree certificates, pay your fees
guided study, negotiated study, relevant School or Unit in which or provide documentary evidence
and research. you would undertake your research of your financial sponsor.
project. It usually takes several
It is Professional because it weeks to process an application.
integrates taught, experiential and The application process involves SPONSORSHIP &
research elements to address assessing the viability of your RESEARCH ST UDENTSHIPS
current professional issues. The intended research project,
first part of the Professional identifying an appropriate The following organisations
Doctorate programme, which is academic supervisor and following provide financial awards and
taken by all candidates, consists of up references. sponsorship for research.
the Master of Research As part of the application process Individual awards are determined
programme; candidates you will be contacted by one of our on a competitive basis through an
terminating their studies at the end members of academic staff who will annual competition. Students
of this phase are awarded the discuss with you your proposed should have or expect to attain a
degree of MRes. project. This will usually take the first or upper second class honours
form of an interview for applicants degree and must be eligible to pay
resident in the UK. tuition fees at the UK rate.
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20. RESEARCH
OPPORTUNITIES
Applications for research council Economic & Social Research COMMONWEALT H
studentships are submitted via the Council (ESRC) SC HOLARSHIP AND
institution in which you intend to www.esrc.ac.uk FELLOWSHIP PLAN
undertake your study and for which
you should already have obtained Medical Research Council (MRC) Scholarships are available to
confirmation of a conditional offer. www.mrc.ac.uk students of intellectual promise
who are likely to make a significant
If you are interested in applying for National Environment Research contribution to their resident
a research studentship you should Council (NERC) country on their return from study.
indicate this in your application for www.nerc.ac.uk
admission. There is considerable Awards usually cover travel costs,
competition for such awards and Engineering & Physical Sciences tuition fees and living expenses.
whilst the university is keen to Research Council (EPSRC) Candidates should normally be
encourage such applications you www.epsrc.ac.uk Commonwealth citizens or British
may not necessarily be successful. ported persons normally resident in
Particle Physics & Astronomy a Commonwealth country, other
For further information see the Research Council (PPARC) than the United Kingdom and be
Prospects Postgraduate Funding www.pparc.ac.uk holders of at least a second class
Guide, available from careers honours degree or equivalent
offices visit www.prospects.ac.uk General Social Care Council qualification.
or the website of relevant funding (England) Applicants should contact the
bodies. www.gscc.org.uk Commonwealth Scholarship
Agency in their resident country.
Care Council for Wales
RESEARCH COUNCILS www.ccwales.org.uk Enquiries in the UK should be
addressed to:
Arts & Humanities Research Board Northern Ireland Social Care
(AHRB) Council Commonwealth Scholarship
The Postgraduate Awards Division www.niscc.info Commission,
www.ahrb.ac.uk Association of Commonwealth
Scottish Social Services Council Universities,
Biotechnology & Biological Information Service 36 Gordon Square,
Sciences Research Council www.sssc.uk.com London,
(BBSRC) WC1H OPE
www.bbsrc.ac.uk Department for Education & Skills
www.dfee.gov.uk tel: +44 020 7387 8572
www.acu.ac.uk
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BRITISH COUNCIL In addition to formal research
FELLOWSHIP training, the university offers
research students opportunities to
If you are applying to register for a develop their personal effectiveness
PhD you may be eligible for a through a range of on-line and
scholarship. Further details and workshop-based programmes.
information on how to apply is Because these skills are so important
available from your local British in the workplace, students maintain
Council Office. Enquiries in the UK a Professional Development
should be addressed to: Portfolio of their skills and training,
and review their personal
The Director, development plans regularly with
Development and Training their supervisory team.
Services,
The British Council, Students who are involved in
Bridgwater House, undergraduate teaching may
58 Whitworth Street, choose to undertake training in
Manchester, Higher Education pedagogy. The
M1 6BB university Skills Week, which
currently runs for the week before
www.britishcouncil.org Easter, offers research students the
opportunity to network, as well as
to learn how to make effective
presentations, write applications for
GRADUATE SKILLS
funding, or develop a variety of
management skills.
Skills Agenda
Research training is about more
than producing a thesis, although
that, of course, is key to the
successful completion of the
process. The university expects
that its research students will
develop a broad range of skills
during their training, appropriate
for a wide range of careers in the
public, professional or private
sectors.
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22. CARDIFF SCHOOL
of ART & DESIGN
’
CSAD has a long history of
postgraduate study and in
the generation of art and
design research. It has an
active and supportive
postgraduate environment
and its tutors and
supervisors have significant
expertise in the various
ways in which art, design
and engineering theory and
practice can contribute to
knowledge.
In the 2008 Research Assessment
Exercise the Art & Design panel
rated 95% of the research
submission as international
standard, with 70% rated as either
Internationally Excellent or World
Leading. Postgraduate study
opportunities exist both at Masters
and PhD level. Masters courses
offered include:
// Master of Fine Art
// MA Art & Design
// Master of Design
// MA Ceramics
// MSc Advanced Product Design
The school also offers specialist
routes for the MA Art & Design
course in Communication, Fine
Art, Art & Science, Ecologies, and
Philosophy.
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Research degree supervision is Full-time research students are For further details of the
available for a wide range of topics allocated a dedicated and suitably research undertaken by Cardiff
and the School has an excellent equipped workspace, with access School of Art and Design and
record of successful completions. to specialist facilities in one of the the range of research degrees
and financial support that may
This reflects the close supervision School’s research centres. Many
be available, visit:
and the support its research students have successfully secured
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the case with international fees and maintenance for their
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significant additional support from notably from Arts & Humanities Research Co-ordinator at:
the university’s International Research Council (AHRC), where csadresearchdegrees
Office. In addition to the the School has worked very closely @cardiffmet.ac.uk
university’s training programme in with candidates, on their
generic research methods, the application. For further details on the taught
School provides specialist training postgraduate programmes
contact Gareth Loudon,
in methods specific to the
Head of Masters Studies:
discipline e.g. art and design
gloudon@cardiffmet.ac.uk
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24. UNDER THE SP OTLIGHT 2009 >> 2011 >>
’ Graduates with a BSc in Product Design Works at the Samsung Institute of Art
and Design in South Korea
201O >> Works at PER Design in Beijing
2006 >> Graduates with an MSc in Product
Left school with A Levels in Art and Design at Cardiff Metropolitan 2012 >>
Secures a post as Foreign Scholar at
Design, Design and Technology and University
Dong-A University, South Korea
History
25. 22/23
Eifion has Designs on
International Career
When design student Eifion and I found it really interesting.
Davies began his South Asia is a really exciting place
undergraduate degree at for a designer, and South Korea in
particular is developing as the
Cardiff Metropolitan
future hub of the design industry.
University in 2006, he had
It was great to have the opportunity
never travelled abroad.
to take part in a SADI workshop.”
Fast-forward a few years
and Eifion has worked and Following his MSc qualification,
studied as far afield as Eifion was invited back to a further
Beijing and South Korea. exchange project at SADI where he
spent three months as a Professor’s
Eifion studied the MSc in Assistant. He then applied and was
Product Design at the Cardiff accepted for a role PER Design – an
School of Art and Design, award-winning product design
after completing his group, based in Beijing.
undergraduate degree.
Speaking about the experience,
Eifion said: “It was a fantastic
He said: “I was very keen to
experience to work at one of the
continue with my studies at Cardiff
world’s most well-respected
Metropolitan University, and I really
product design companies. My
benefited from the small class sizes
time at Cardiff Metropolitan
and one-to-one support offered by
University has sparked my passion
the course tutors.”
for research and also helped me to
make some great contacts across
During his MSc, Eifion was given
the world. I have now secured a
the opportunity to study at the
role as Foreign Scholar at the
Samsung Art & Design Institute
Industrial Design department at
(SADI) in South Korea, as part of
Dong-A University in South Korea,
Cardiff Metropolitan University’s
where I will be teaching, as well as
ongoing collaboration and
continuing to develop my interests
partnership with the institution.
in product design and research.”
Eifion said: “The exchange
programme was my first
experience of travelling abroad,
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26. UNDER THE SP OT LIGHT >> Society for Arts, Sciences, and
PhD and BA in Fine Art
’ Technology
>>
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts 2011 >>
Enterprise and Research
2000-2008 >>
Award, 2011
Associate Editor and web manager
of Leonardo Reviews, the International
27. 24/25
Professor
Robert Pepperell Professor of Fine Ar t
Head of Fine Ar t at CSAD
Professor Robert Pepperell topics on which he lectures
is Professor of Fine Art and internationally. His paintings and
Head of the Fine Art drawings are the result of intensive
experimentation in materials and
Department at Cardiff School
methods designed to evoke a very
of Art and Design.
specific, yet elusive, state of mind.
Engaging in an ongoing dialogue
He is well-known for his innovative
with art of the past, particularly the
electronic works, which were
widely exhibited throughout the
Baroque and early Cubism, his
late 1980s and early 1990s at Ars
works on canvas, panel and paper
Electronica, the Barbican Gallery,
weave a complex web of
Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art,
impossible and contradictory
the ICA and the Millennium Dome.
passages suggesting heroic dramas
with transcendental overtones.
He has also published several
influential books, including The
Professor Pepperell’s current
Posthuman Condition (1995 and
enterprise projects and industrial
2003) and The Postdigital
links include the Venice Project,
Membrane (with Michael Punt,
establishing links with the island of
2000), as well as many articles,
La Certosa and creating an
reviews and papers.
accommodation and studio base for
CSAD staff and students, as well as
Central to Professor Pepperell’s
‘Vision-Space’, working with
work is an investigation of the
Perceptual Technologies Ltd, to
nature of perceptual
develop and market a new form of
consciousness, carried out through
illusionary space.
both philosophical inquiry and the
practice of painting and drawing -
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28. ART & DESIGN
(with pathways)
MA
’ // Communication:
The Communication pathway is for
practicing artists and designers
The MA encourages you to who want to explore intellectual
develop your practice in a and creative territories that are
critical yet supportive current and challenging. There will
environment. Our aim is to be the opportunity to undertake
enable you to sustain your practical and theoretically-led
practice and to succeed at projects addressing the creative
the highest level. In order to dimensions, social contexts and
help to work towards this, cultural significance of mediated
you will be allocated a human interaction. It seeks to
encourage innovatory practice and
personal tutor and subject-
the scholarly investigation of what
specialist member of
is a complex field of means,
academic staff.
intentions and humanistic
potentials.
Our specialist MA areas currently
include pathways in the following // Ecologies:
subjects: ‘Ecology’ is taken in its widest,
philosophical sense to mean the
// Art and Science: study of relatedness. The pathway
This pathway explores the focuses on the capacity of art and
philosophical, historical and design to address the kinds of
practical dimensions of art–science contact we have with others, where
collaboration. It offers thorough the ‘other’ might be a person, an
engagement with key concepts and animal or an environment, and
questions at the intersection of art where there is mindfulness of the
and science, and critical evaluation difficulties inherent in being
of recent examples of art–science together. You will develop your
practice. You will develop your practical and theoretical interests in
practical and theoretical interests in relation to a body of work whose
relation to a body of work that will raison d’être is rooted in interaction
be relevant to wider contexts of and meaningfulness for others.
interdisciplinarity and the bringing
together of different subject
communities.
29. 26/27
// Fine Art: and wider academic fields of Art CAMPUS:
The Fine Art pathway helps and Design. Typically this might Howard Gardens / Llandaff
students develop their practical include teachers, aspiring artists,
SCHOOL:
and theoretical interests in relation aspiring academics, or recent
Cardiff School of Art & Design
to a body of artwork that is graduates in Art and Design who
important in a contemporary fine wish to further their professional CO URSE LENGT H:
art context. practice. One year full-time or two years
part-time.
All staff involved with the Fine Art
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
pathway are actively involved in Career Potential >>
Applicants should have a good
making and/or writing about art. The programme is mainly intended BA (Hons) degree (or
They bring this knowledge and for art and design graduates who equivalent) in a relevant field.
research experience to the want to explore intellectual and We also recognise the value of
programme, entering into an creative territories that are current prior learning and experience
ongoing dialogue with you in order and challenging. MA graduates are within related fields.
to develop and strengthen your art well placed to pursue their career
FEES:
practice. as either practising artists,
www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/fees
designers or communicators in a
// Philosophy: variety of professional or creative CO URSE CO NTACT:
Art and design challenge the industries contexts, or to develop Gareth Loudon:
meanings and values we attach to their careers in education and gloudon@cardiffmet.ac.uk
objects and situations, and have the academia.
FULL CO URSE PROFILE:
potential to transform human being
www.cardiff-school-of-art-and-
and action. Philosophy offers some
design.org
of the most stimulating and
influential ideas about art, design
and experience in modern thought.
Putting philosophy and art and
design together will generate
discussion, proposals, challenges,
artefacts and situations which will
alter and expand what it means to
think, make and experience.
The programme is designed for
students who wish to develop their
academic and research knowledge
from within the practical disciplines
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30. ADVA NCED PRODUCT DESIGN
MSc
’ The course has an excellent track CAMPUS:
record of project success in a very Llandaff
wide range of product areas
This unique course is including consumer electronics,
SCHOOL:
designed to equip students Cardiff School of Art & Design
education, child development,
with knowledge and skills in domestic, industrial, disability, and CO URSE LENGT H:
the advanced techniques, medical as well as many others. One year full-time.
technologies and tools being
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
used by today’s designers at Career Potential >>
A good honours degree,
the cutting edge product The course is principally aimed at
normally at least 2:1 (in an
design practice. enabling students to develop their appropriate discipline) or
careers in the world of professional appropriate professional
Initially the various taught modules product design and development. experience within the subject.
help achieve the above and often A key advantage in achieving this
aim is the industrial placement FEES:
involve live projects as well as
module. All students are given www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/fees
being able to draw on the staff’s
real-world case studies. In the latter assistance in gaining a suitable CO URSE CO NTACT:
half of the course students are free placement either in industry or Paul Wilgeroth:
to choose the overall focus of their within the National Centre for pwilgeroth@cardiffmet.ac.uk
major design project. Each project Product Design and Development
Research (PDR) which located on FULL CO URSE PROFILE:
may also have an additional
the university campus. www.cardiff-school-of-art-and-
emphasis on one or more of the design.org/mscapd
following: rapid product
development, social responsibility, On completion of the course,
sustainability, inclusivity and graduates should expect to find
interaction design. Students are employment in design
encouraged to either link their consultancies or manufacturing
major project with their industrial companies anywhere in the world.
placement or to solicit the support
of an industrial advisor and/or
sponsor.
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CERAMICS
MA
’ The programme encompasses the CAMPUS:
technical/conceptual exploration of Howard Gardens
material and processes, the
CSAD has the largest discreet SCHOOL:
potential interfaces within these
ceramics centre in Europe, Cardiff School of Art & Design
and other subject disciplines. The
with a global reputation for
programme initiates the cross- CO URSE LENGT H:
its programmes that attracts
fertilisation of practice based One year full-time or two years
students, practitioners and
methodologies and the revealing of part-time.
academics from all over the
new contexts and methods of
world. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
practice, encouraging creativity
embedded within innovation and A good honours degree in an
Ceramics at CSAD is not confined to appropriate discipline, or
invention and research. This
any category of art, design or appropriate professional
thinking is underpinned by a critical
making. It has always taken risks and experience within the subject.
and historical approach and the
risen to creative challenges born of
exploration of personal themes and FEES:
critical engagement and enquiry. Its
questions through the making of www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/fees
work has brought together
outcomes.
traditional ceramic processes with
CO URSE CO NTACT:
new and emerging technologies.
Career Potential >> Peter Castle:
At the conclusion of the pcastle@cardiffmet.ac.uk
The philosophy of the programme
programme, a very high percentage
is to enable students through their FULL CO URSE PROFILE:
of MA graduates develop 'mixed
subject specific experience as www.cardiff-school-of-art-and-
portfolio' careers. They establish or
graduates or professional design.org/maceramics
continue their professional practice,
practitioners of Ceramics. It will
enabled by the links they have made
provide opportunities for graduates
with galleries or organisations
from alternative areas such as Print,
associated with the visual art, or are
Textiles and Fine Art, to challenge,
able to return to their professional
reinterpret and extend the potential
employment as teachers, lectures
of Ceramics within the 21st century
and arts related organisations. Some
post material culture. Students are
elect to continue with ceramics at
encouraged to challenge norms and
CSAD by undertaking a PhD.
question conventions, and respond
Current and recent AHRC doctoral
to these with answers and
awards have included the study of
possibilities that carry their
the following: The importance of
signature of interpretation, driven
process and materials to ceramics
by their sense of curiosity that can
practice; the investigation of colour;
be experienced through things that
within ceramic surface; the
are made; are visible to be engaged
development of video as a tool for
with and owned.
the investigation of the creative
process; the relationships between
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ceramics and sculpture.
32. MASTER OF DESIGN
MDes
’ CAMPUS:
Howard Gardens / Llandaff
Our new Master of Design SCHOOL:
programme focuses on the Cardiff School of Art & Design
professional and applied CO URSE LENGT H:
aspects of creativity One year full-time or two years
generated in the realm of part-time.
contemporary design. Taking
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
a lead from the established Applicants should have a good
teaching specialisms within BA (Hons) degree (or
the school – graphic design, equivalent) in a relevant field.
product design, architectural We also recognize the value of
prior learning and experience
design, and textile design –
within related fields.
you will strengthen your
existing practice and FEES:
generate new work within a www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/fees
negotiated programme of CO URSE CO NTACT:
learning supported by Gareth Loudon:
experienced academic staff gloudon@cardiffmet.ac.uk
and technicians.
FULL CO URSE PROFILE:
www.cardiff-school-of-art-and-
Career Potential >> design.org/mdes
With emphasis on practice, the
MDes is intended for those who
have, and wish to maintain, a career
in any form of professional design
practice. The MDes provides an
opportunity for advanced design
study in the context of a
professional situation and to
specialise in a particular area of
design practice. Typical career
destinations include Professional
Design Practice, Design Enterprise,
Design Management as well as
careers in education and academia.
33. 30/31
MASTER OF FINE ART
MFA
’ CAMPUS:
Howard Gardens
The MFA aims to challenge SCHOOL:
your preconceptions about Cardiff School of Art & Design
your own art practice, and
CO URSE LENGT H:
that of others, and to One year full-time or two years
provide you with a platform part-time.
from which to make
informed judgements on the ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
future development of your Applicants should have a good
career. The MFA encourages BA (Hons) degree (or
you to develop your art equivalent) in a relevant field.
We also recognize the value of
practice in a critical yet
prior learning and experience
supportive environment. Our
within related fields.
aim is to enable you to
sustain your practice and to FEES:
succeed at the highest level. www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/fees
In order to help to work
CO URSE CO NTACT:
towards this, you will be
Gareth Loudon:
allocated a personal tutor
gloudon@cardiffmet.ac.uk
and subject-specialist
member of academic staff. FULL CO URSE PROFILE:
www.cardiff-school-of-art-and-
Career Potential >> design.org/mfa
This programme is designed to fit
the requirements of contemporary
professional artists. The aim is to
help students develop and
strengthen their existing practice
within a critical academic context
through a negotiated programme
of learning with the support of
highly skilled staff and technicians.
Graduates of the MFA programme
are well placed to continue to
pursue a career within the field of
contemporary visual art.
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34. PROFESSIONAL & R ESE A RC H
SKILLS (Ar t & Design)
PgC
’ CPRS is included as part of Cardiff CAMPUS:
School of Art and Design’s MA (Art Llandaff & Howard Gardens
& Design), MDes, MFA, MPhil and
The programme offers a PhD programmes. It can also be
SCHOOL:
detailed and comprehensive Cardiff School of Art & Design
taken as a stand-alone programme
introduction to the range of in preparation for writing a research CO URSE LENGT H:
methods, strategies and application or a professional One semester part-time.
debates which can apply to intervention project.
art and design professional ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
practice and research. It is Modules include: A good honours degree, and/or
// Professional Methods in Art equivalent professional standing
built around the four key
and Design or experience in an art and
areas of professional design discipline, or a discipline
// Research Methods in Art
practice, research methods, associated with their programme
and Design
research design, and the of study.
// Project Design
criticality that is essential for
// Critical Positions in Art and FEES:
the generation of Design. www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/fees
knowledge.
CO URSE CO NTACT:
The programme is ideal for artists Dr Clive Cazeaux:
and designers who want to develop ccazeaux@cardiffmet.ac.uk
a research proposal or a
FULL CO URSE PROFILE:
professional intervention project
www.cardiff-school-of-art-and-
based on their practice.
design.org/cprs
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We offe r a wide range of
EXCELLENT RESOURCES
and FACILITIES…
’
There are many specialist
workshops and studios
including those for painting,
sculpture, sound, ceramics,
print, textiles, graphics,
architecture, and product
design.
Image:
Ceramic studio, Howard Gardens Campus
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36. CARDIFF SC HOOL
of EDUCATIO N
’
The Cardiff School of
Education’s research
community is continually
developing around its three
main departments: Teacher
Education and Training,
Humanities and Professional
Development.
Most of its educational research is
firmly grounded in applications to
practice and knowledge transfer,
while research in humanities
focuses on English literature and
creative writing and, to a lesser
extent, history.
Staff within the school have a wide
range of research interests. As
well as those with well established
research profiles, a significant
proportion of lecturers are
undertaking higher degrees and
developing additional research
interests to contribute to the
School's portfolio. The School also
has Education research links with
the Cardiff School of Sport, Cardiff
School of Art and Design and
Cardiff School of Health Sciences
with an interdisciplinary focus.
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Postgraduate Study & Research Oppor tunities
Our research and research For further details of the
supervision teams are based on research undertaken by Cardiff
two groups: Pedagogy and School of Education and the
Andragogy Research Group range of research degrees
offered, contact Research
(PARG) and Arts and Humanities
Degree Programmes Director:
Research Group (AHRG). These
groups also include Academic Dr Sian Rhiannon Williams
Associates (PhD and EdD srwilliams@cardiffmet.ac.uk.
(Professional Doctorate) Research
students). Research within the www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/cse
AHRG group centres around the
theme of ‘Narratives, Identities and
Place’ while the main areas of
research of PARG members are ICT
in education, Language in
education, Music education, Early
Years education and outdoor
learning and Adult and Community
education.
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