Overview
The PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at Cardiff University caters to individuals keen to join a thriving community of writers from novelists and memoirists to poets and scriptwritersall of whom share the common purpose of immersing themselves in the composition of a substantial piece of creative research.
The programme includes a compulsory critical element in which students relate the creative work they produce to its wider critical and cultural contexts and evaluate the conceptual and theoretical contribution the work represents.
Programme aims
The PhD programme is designed to enable students to put together an original piece of creative work a novel, collection of poems or short stories, a play, film script, or work of creative non-fiction together with a reflective critical commentary.
The programme offers knowledge and expertise to take you on to a role in Higher Education, or employment requiring high-level skills in research or advanced subject knowledge.
The programme recruits a diverse range of Home/EU and International students who want to engage in a research environment characterised by world-leading research expertise in all aspects of creative writing.
Distinctive features
- The PhD programme offers a monthly seminar series specific to Creative Writing research students.
- The School makes funding available each year for PGR students who wish to attend conferences / undertake library or archive visits in order to assist with their PhD studies.
- PhD students are encouraged to attend the annual writers’ retreat at Gregynog Hall, a country house with a distinguished artistic heritage that is set in glorious countryside in mid-Wales.
- PhD students are also encouraged to publish and advice can be sought from Creative Writing staff, all of whom are published authors.
- We offer teaching opportunities on the undergraduate degree and PhD students can undertake the School’s unique “Learning to Teach” programme, accredited by the Higher Education Academy.
Career Prospects
The programme offers ideal preparation for those wishing to pursue careers in freelance writing and academia as well as journalism, publishing, teaching, public relations and arts management and administration.
Job roles: Writer, Lecturer, Editor, Head Teacher, English Teacher, EFL Teacher, PR Officer.
Employers: Universities from Cork (Ireland) to Wisconsin State (USA), Oxford University Press, Penguin Random House, Palgrave MacMillan, London Film School, Virgin Media, Literature Wales, Visit Wales.
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Examples of recent and current PhD topics:
- “Modest Venus: Experiments in Seeing” (Narrative Non-Fiction)
- “World of Appearances: Defining a Post-Projective Method in Contemporary Poetics”
- “Poetic Grief: Writing the Death of an Addict”
- “Representations of Italy in Contemporary English Literature” and a Novel
- “Root and Branch: Direction in the Urban Novel in Contemporary Welsh Fiction in English”
- “The Gwerin and the Crachach: A Novel”
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Duration
- Full-time
- 36 months
- Part-time
- 60 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Disciplines
Creative Writing General Studies Literature View 59 other PhDs in Creative Writing in United KingdomExplore more key information
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English requirements
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- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
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- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
- In addition to the application form, research proposal and supporting documents we also require copies of recent creative work, the word count of which will depend very much on the genre of work produced but we would expect approximately 3,000 words of prose or 10-15 poems.
- Applicants should include a research proposal (approx 1000 words), 2 academic references, a sample of creative writing, copies of BA and MA degree certificates and a transcript of the marks.
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International
24450 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 24450 GBP per year during 36 months. -
National
4712 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 4712 GBP per year during 36 months.
Living costs for Cardiff
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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Scholarships Information
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