MRes Visual Anthropology

at Goldsmiths University of London

Program structure

In the week before the beginning of the academic year in mid-September there is an Induction Programme for all new research postgraduates at Goldsmiths.

You will be introduced to College and departmental facilities and procedures, and attend workshops on what is involved in doing a research degree. 

The MRes is a training year, in which work on your own research project is coupled with general training in Anthropological and Social Science Methods - as follows: 

Doing Ethnography (10 weeks x 2 hrs) 

Research Design (10 weeks x 2.5 hrs) 

Visual Practice in Anthropology (10 weeks x 2 hrs) 

Department of Anthropology Research Seminar 

You are encouraged to audit other modules depending on your specific training needs, such as learning a language, or auditing an MA module, either in the Department or elsewhere, of particular relevance to your research project.

You are also encouraged to attend seminars in other parts of the University of London, attend conferences.

There are funds available across the university to enable you to attend such events. 

At the end of the year, MRes Visual students present a 10,000-word dissertation with a portfolio of multimodal work in September, which discusses in depth their proposed research topic and the relevant literature.

• An undergraduate degree of at least second-class standard in a relevant/related subject

International Tuition Fees:

£22000 per year

Career Opportunity

Our MRes programme will enable you to:

• gain a thorough knowledge of the main methods used by anthropologists 

• understand the principles of quantitative and qualitative research in the social sciences 

• plan, design and present a research project 

• evaluate the research of others