Students will be supervised one-to-one by one or two supervisor/s across the first two terms of the academic year. Topics will be agreed between the student and the supervisor/s, and will serve as a grounding for the dissertation, ie normally the first essay will be a study of an area (eg French romanticism, Italian avant-garde, German thought) and the second essay focused on a narrower part of the field, normally with a specified theoretical angle; the dissertation, at the highest level of focus, will be selected from this sub-field.
Meetings will be ca every three weeks (3-4 per term) and normally last 2 hours. At the first of these a reading list will be given to the student. The student will be expected to submit written work 5 working days before each meeting.
The MRes can be taken either full-time or part-time.
Full-time
If you choose this option you will complete the degree in one year.
Part-time students Applications now being accepted for full-time places only
If you choose this option you will take two years to complete the course. Part-time students will normally take the Research Training Workshops and one essay in Year 1, and the other essay plus the dissertation in Year 2.
A dissertation of maximum 40,000 words is supervised during the Summer Term (FT) or from October to August (PT) and the summer and submitted by 1 September. Oral examinations, at which students make presentations on their dissertation topics, are held in late May or early June; this carries 10% of the dissertation mark.
See details of the IGRS Research Training workshops.
