Creative Arts (Performing Arts) Doctorate

This programme provides a space within which practising writers/artists can develop and refine their compositional ability and rigour within the broad paradigm of writing/performance and within advanced, professional practices. We focus on the student's ability to conceive, realise and critically evaluate the success of her or his original writing. We understand success can be defined in many ways, but we insist every person must settle on his or her own definition of success and be able to defend it.This means we provide a reflective, creative space, with a focus on advanced, informed, sophisticated creative practice which experiments and innovates. The programme helps each student to further uncover, reveal and discover their originality and to articulate the contribution that original work is making to the larger artistic sphere or the professional environment.Students may either choose to bring some of their ongoing creative writing/practice within the framework of the doctorate, or they can elect to use the doctorate to experiment with new and untested ideas, away from the commercial, financial and political pressures of their practice and its funders.After the first module, assessment can be by creative practice portfolio and viva voce without written theorisation, as long as the practice evidences a clear, distinct and original contribution to the profession of making and realising. However, students always have the option to write a critical piece.