Individual Strand

This route allows students to carry out a substantial piece of supervised research on a topic of their choice leading to the submission of a thesis of 30,000 words in length.

Students who apply for this strand will be expected to submit a preliminary research proposal of about 1,000 words. Students accepted for this route would, normally, be expected to have previous experience of carrying out a substantial piece of project work, or its equivalent, and to be familiar with appropriate research methods as well as having specialist knowledge in the area of their research project. For the main areas in which supervision can be offered see information provided on our Research Development pages and on our Academic groups pages.