This module will emphasise independent research leading up to your Developmental Project (Dissertation). You will select an area of investigation in the arts, related to cultural identity and contemporary performance, with the advice of tutors and fellow students. This module is designed to facilitate your development as a researcher through the formulation and realisation of a self-directed research project into theoretical research into your own practice with reference to the work of other theatre practitioners. You will be expected to contextualise your work in the light of contemporary developments in arts practice, arts research and cultural identity.
This module will take the learning from Research Methodologies 1 and deepen and develop this in relation to your own artistic practice. Radical, innovative and current modes of research and study will be investigated relating to your own practice. A refinement and deepening of methods and methodologies will be encouraged and will be applied to your learning and analysis of your own work in relation to the themes of culture and identity that you are interrogating.
