Looking to expand your artistic and academic portfolio while developing as a theatre practitioner working in various performance styles and disciplines? Our MA in Theatre Making is for you.
Benefit from our unique network of theatre companies and arts groups, and craft your creative journey. Work independently, in companies, or with external partners, under our expert guidance.
And experience hands-on theatre creation for different audiences and settings. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn how to launch and manage your own theatre company.
Gain the skills, knowledge and confidence to pursue a music career. Whether as a performer, radio broadcaster, songwriter, music technologist, or events organiser.
When you join Hull, you join a buzzing creative community. A tight-knit group of performers, composers, songwriters, producers, music psychologists, and writers.
You work on major creative projects – both on your own and with like-minded creatives. You use industry-standard recording studios and performance spaces. And you get the chance to gain work experience at local live events.
Learn to communicate through storytelling, content creation, and branding across platforms. With hands-on projects, industry tools, and real-world experience, you'll build creative and professional skills for careers in media, marketing, and communications - preparing you to shape the stories that inspire and connect diverse audiences.
This professionally oriented degree equips you with creative and critical thinking, executive skills, and business awareness crucial for success in the creative industries. Learn key media functions that shape consumer culture, preparing you to excel and innovate in your career, including:
In addition, you will develop journalistic skills such as conducting research, identifying and interviewing credible sources, editing texts, and selecting stories for publication. You will also gain general knowledge about the business of media, familiarising you with the professional media environment already before you graduate.
Today’s musicians must be creative, knowledgeable, adaptable and entrepreneurial. At Hull, you not only learn about music. You learn on the job, by making music.
You’ll work on major creative projects, both individually and collaboratively. Surrounded by a tight-knit community of performers, composers, songwriters and producers.
You’ll use industry-standard recording studios and performance spaces. And get the chance to work at live events in and around Hull. So by the time you graduate, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to become the musician you want to be.
While studying for an MPhil or PhD, students have the chance to undertake independent research in an area of their choice, supervised and supported by a team of academics. A range of training opportunities enables the development of key research skills.
The Lincoln School of Creative Arts boasts extensive research expertise in the fields of drama, theatre, and performance studies where a team of academics offer continued supervision and support throughout. Areas of specialism include playwriting, dramaturgy, scenography, musical theatre, Asian performance, intermediality, and historiography, as well as practice as research and practice-based research.
Research students are invited to join one of the School's thriving research groups and participate in the Critical Encounters Research Series alongside academic staff and other postgraduate students. Students are encouraged to present their work at national and international conferences and to publish their findings.
Get creative with practical filmmaking, digital media and industry collaboration opportunities on our Media Studies degree.
Master creative production skills. Develop your knowledge of how the media industries operate, the ways that they represent society, and how you can shape their future. And learn about the opportunities and challenges of the industry.
You’ll benefit from our strong relationships with industry too, with awesome placement opportunities and extra-curricular activities that can help your CV stand out from the crowd.
The MA Performance Design course explores scenography and performance-making from various perspectives informed by current research and innovative practices including immersive and participatory forms of performance design, design-led performance, audience experience and contemporary spectatorship.
On this course, you'll experiment with the creative application of design elements, including space, light, sound, costume and digital media, discovering how to shape live performance and generate meaning for contemporary audiences.
This course allows you to extend your own creative practice through developing an understanding of the theories and concepts of scenography and designing for live performance.
You’ll use our specialist facilities to explore the performance experiences that can be created with space, light, objects, costume, sound, projection and other digital technologies like virtual and mixed reality, creating original performance work that is design-led.
You’ll work collaboratively to create dynamic cutting-edge work and you’ll develop skills in documentation and reflection so that you can develop your individual creative practice.
You’ll devise and carry out an independent research project into an aspect of performance design that interests you. You’ll also examine contemporary performance practices, from immersive and participatory experiences to site-specific work staged outside of traditional theatre spaces and locate these within their wider social and cultural contexts.
This course offers you the chance to concentrate on your development as a performing musician, and benefit from studying with our expert professional instrumental/vocal teachers, our experienced performance staff and our resident repetiteur, to develop your skills in technical proficiency, presentation and interpretation in musical performance.
This flexible course enables you to enhance your technical prowess, expand your repertoire and hone your interpretative strategies as a performer, alongside developing your critical skills in commenting on your own performances and those of others. Through individual lessons, performance classes and masterclasses, you’ll prepare and perform a recital as the major part of your course. You’ll also choose one or two further modules offering opportunities to explore an extended work, undertake a distinctive applied performance study, engage with performance practice, or develop your understanding of relevant research methods and approaches in music to support your interpretation and discussion of performance. Depending on which performance options you select, you may also have the chance to expand your studies by choosing to do a Short Dissertation on a musicological topic of your choosing.
This course is ideal if you want to focus entirely on your performing interests by taking a smaller selection of modules than the more intensive MMus Performance course.
It all starts here. Develop your dance practice, teaching and leadership skills over two years with vibrant and supportive teachers
As a dancer with an interest in expanding your skills, this practice-based programme will help you to:
Build a rewarding career as a professionally-qualified registered dance movement psychotherapist. Graduates are eligible to register with the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy UK. This programme is designed for people who have prior dance experience and professional or volunteering experience with people in need.
We believe that focusing on the creative potential of individuals in a relationship creates a sound ethical basis for psychotherapeutic work.
You will be taught by leading experts who will equip you with the skills, experience, and confidence to work as a dance movement psychotherapist.Read More
All graduating students are eligible to apply for registration with the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy (ADMP UK). Graduates often create their own positions; facilitating dance movement psychotherapy sessions within settings including: social services; special needs; schools; psychiatry; probationary and rehabilitation units; forensic psychiatry.
