Our one-year Full-Time course with a two-year Part-Time option is positioned in the rich geographical area of the South West of England with plenty of opportunities for experiential learning, responding and working alongside outside environments in Plymouth, the UK’s only ocean city and nearby moors of Dartmoor and Cornwall.
Discover the empowerment of innovative art-research practice. Open up your sensorium, sharpen your sensitivities and attune yourself to the more-than-human world by evolving inventive, creative responses to global challenges. From climate change to social and environmental injustices and AI, explore how they affect our sense of self, ability to act and connections with others.
Our programme has dedicated, caring lecturers who will guide and inspire you through your journey. We offer access to a wide range of digital and analogue media, audiovisual and photographic equipment, plus generous practical and technical support. Work to expand the field of photography by embracing openness, originality and risk-taking through practical and conceptual experimentation in still and moving image-making, sound design, curation, creative and critical writing while learning rigorous, innovative approaches to both practice and theory.
Join our dynamic research culture and be supported by a collective of international academics, researchers, artists, curators and writers. Share your practice with like-minded peers and be transformed by an educational experience that prepares you for future challenges in a dynamic, fluid and complex world.
If you or someone you know is interested in trans-disciplinary research and eco-critical approaches to an expanded notion of photography, please do apply or share!
Quotes from recent graduates:
“I really gained something incredible out of this experience of doing my masters”.
“You can find out exactly what it is you specialise in”.
“I’ve never felt more supported within a course before”.
Application
If you are interested in applying for the MA Photography please contact Course Leader Dr Carole Baker or paste the following URL into your Browser: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/ma-photography And, click on the red box to ‘Apply Now’.
Deadline: 12th July 2024 for September 2024 entry
Contact: carole.baker@plymouth.ac.uk
We are happy to arrange a friendly and informal Zoom chat to tell you more about our course and answer any questions you might have, so please get in touch.
You can see more about the course on Instagram, Facebook and on the Plymouth University web page HERE
Further Reading
UoP MA in Photography website – https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/ma-photography
Financing your Masters Study
Alumni Discounts
If you have previously studied and successfully completed a University honours or masters degree programme either at the University of Plymouth or at one of our partner colleges, you may be entitled to an alumni discount on the tuition fee of many postgraduate taught masters programmes.
The following discounts are available:
• A 20% alumni discount is available on most postgraduate taught masters programmes for
UK alumni (with ‘home’ fees status).
• For 2024/2025 entry, a 20% alumni discount is available on most postgraduate taught masters programmes for international alumni. International alumni who have applied to the University through an agent are not eligible to receive the discount plymouth graduates
Alternative Funding
The Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding
Guide (AGO) is a web resource for current and prospective postgraduate students (any subject, any nationality) who are looking to fund PhD, Masters, and PGCE study in the UK through grants from charities, trusts, and foundations.
Charities and trusts sometimes provide grants, often for students from poorer backgrounds or those who’ve achieved academic excellence. Find out more at your local library in these publications:
- Educational Grants Directory
- Charities Digest
- Grants Register
- Directory of Grant Making Trusts
You can also use the Family Action grant search.
https://www.family-action.org.uk/what-we-do/grants
https://www.family-action.org.uk/what-we-do/grants
Postgraduate student finance advice studentaccountsteam@plymouth.ac.uk
How to apply for Postgraduate Funding https://www.gov.uk/masters-loan/apply
https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/student-finance/postgraduate-masters-loan=
how-to-apply.
How to Apply through the University of Plymouth for MA Photography First contact course leader Dr Carole Baker: carole.baker@plymouth.ac.uk
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/ma:photography
Postgraduate Scholarship search:
https://www.postgraduatesearch.com/funding
Masters funding from scholarships, grants, bursaries, loans and more If you are a student from the UK there are different potential sources of Masters funding available that you could be eligible for.
Part Time Work
A resource of part-time vacancies including jobs on campus as well as opportunities advertised by local employers in all sectors to help you develop skills whilst studying.
https://www.plymouthiac.uk/services/careers/student-jobs
The Royal Photographic Postgraduate Bursary
The RPS offer an annual bursary of £3,500 in support of a postgraduate student. For this bursary, photography is interpreted in its widest sense to include digital and traditional photographic media, the art and science of photography and image-based written work.
Applications are invited from postgraduate students on courses in photography or undertaking research in photography. Applications must be written in English if applying from abroad. Applicants can apply at any stage of their studies but must demonstrate a specific outcome for their proposed project.
https://rps.org/opportunities/bursaries/rps-postgraduate-bursary
