Welcome to the MA Ceramics website

 

 

The programme offered by Cardiff School of Art and Design is one of the longest established Masters programmes in Ceramics in the UK.

 

Over four hundred graduates (with nearly a third from countries outside the UK) having successfully completed the one and two-year full-time and two-year part time routes. Many of these are now today's leading practitioners, researchers and academics in the field of ceramics.

 

Click here for information on the AHRC postgraduate awards scheme.

 

 

Who is the Programme for?

The MA Ceramics programme is for individuals seeking significantly to extend and develop their practice as artists, designers or makers through the medium of ceramics or deepen their knowledge and understandings of the subject as future researchers or academics.

 

What previous experience do students have?

Students pursuing this programme normally have a BA Hons degree in the visual arts and are intending to build directly upon their undergraduate studies or are looking to use the opportunities offered by the programme to rethink their position and change direction. More typical is the graduate with a number of years professional experience, in areas related or unrelated to ceramics, perhaps as teachers in mid-career and occasionally post-career. All will have reflected on their experiences to date and have decided to deepen their engagement with practice or research in the discipline.

 

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Featured work: Alan Oldham

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What do students do following graduation?

A very high percentage practice professionally: many exhibiting work developed through their MA studies and links established with galleries and other agencies or organisations associated with the visual arts. Some establish their own studios and others base themselves in co-operative studios.

A steadily increasing number are pursuing research degrees (M.Phil/ PhD), either within the School or in other institutions and establish themselves as researchers or teachers and it is interesting to note the number of other courses in the UK, which have Cardiff graduates on their staff.

 

For more information, visit the Cardiff Ceramics website

 

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Featured work: Amy O'Driscoll

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Funding

 

June '09

New Fee-Reduction Bursaries and Assistantships announced for MA Ceramics programmes

We are pleased to announce that students applying to the MA programmes from within Cardiff School of Art & Design can now apply for £500 bursary for the new MA Ceramics programme. If you have been awarded a 2:1 or First* for your BA, you can apply for a fee-reduction, lowering the Full-Time fee to £2890. Please contact CSADMaFineArt@uwic.ac.uk for details.

 

*In addition to this, if you have been awarded a First from UWIC you are also eligible to apply for a further £1,000 fee-reduction. Click here for more details.

 

Mar '09

Postgraduate Scholarships

All Applicants to a taught masters programme from the UK or EU, who are privately funded and have obtained a first class degree, are eligible for a scholarship of up to £1,000.

 

For further details visit the UWIC information page .

 

 

 

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) postgraduate awards

 

The AHRC administers two schemes for postgraduate awards which provide funding for students undertaking Masters-level courses. If you are interested in applying for one of these, you should visit the AHRC web-site (http://www.ahrc.ac.uk), download the relevant form, and submit it to the Programme Leader no later than the 1st February in the year in which you intend to begin study. The School will then make a decision as to whether or not it will support your application.

Further Information