Careers with this subject
Key features
- Collaborate. Inform your individual photography practice with modules shared across other disciplines within the school.
- Specialise. Grow and develop your artistic profile by choosing an elective module relevant to your career goals. Elective modules are available in areas such as storytelling, printmaking and environmental futures.
- Experiment. Rigorous training in innovative art methodologies, which encourage experimentation, openness, originality and risk-taking, and encourages new conceptual and theoretical articulations that respond to our complex social and cultural world.
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State-of-the-art facilities. Make the most of our cutting edge
Digital Fabrication and Immersive Media Laboratories, photography studios and darkrooms, Media Hub and digital printfacilities. - Professional network. Grow your professional profile by establishing professional and creative links with the city and wider creative sector. We will foster connections with other international centres of photography and extensive networks of individuals and organisations around Europe and globally to provide professional opportunities in the fields of exhibition, curation, teaching and publication.
- Research informed teaching. Photography staff inform your learning with research in areas such as ecologies and the nonhuman, landscape and climate change, activist photography, place and community, and built environment.
Course details
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Year 1
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Develop an ethical and sustainable practice that responds to the challenges of the contemporary world through participation in lectures, visiting specialist talks, seminars, presentations, workshops and through the completion of set tasks and independent projects. You will be curious, rigorous and experimental in your approach and will engage with environmental and identity politics to develop your own unique response to the challenges ahead.
Core modules
ADA7300
Research Project / DissertationThis module supports students’ delivery of their final research project / dissertation through combinations of group and individual work. It includes broader disciplinary research skills, methods and ethical practices, as well as subject-specific supervisory arrangements for each students’ research interests. This can include practice-based, text-based or entrepreneurial research outputs.
MFAP7201
Creative CollaborationsThis outward-facing module allows students through research-informed collaborative art practice to strengthen their professional profile and increase their employability. Students creatively interpret their approach to collaborative practice (transdisciplinary interventions, partnerships with outside agencies, external audiences), and use appropriate methodologies and technologies to produce innovative outcomes and expand their range of practical and professional skills.
MPHO7101
Methodologies for Photographic ResearchStudents are introduced to experimental art research methodologies, including Diffractive and Affective, and consider how they are used in a range of research contexts before integrating them into their own personal practice. Through innovative uses of sketchbooking and journalling, students will expand their notions of practice to include making, feeling and thinking, in a processual unfolding of research-creation.
MPHO7201
Activist PhotographyStudents are introduced to a variety of theoretical and creative interpretations of the term ‘activism’ and will become familiar with, and evaluate, a diverse range of activist photographic, textual and filmic practices that respond to issues of social and environmental justice. They will develop their own activist practice in response to these issues.
Optional modules
ADA7103E
Spatial StorytellingStudents will explore using narrative space to create emotionally engaging audience experiences by experimenting with a range of spatial storytelling methods and technologies. The development of skills as narrative architects and storytellers in immersive, interactive, locative, game, sound, art, film and/or performance-based experiences and installations will result in the creation of a spatial storytelling project.
ADA7105E
Posthuman Environmental FuturesStudents will critically consider forms of creative and professional practices that engage with eco-critical debates around the environment. They will generate their own creative responses to these debates and will explore their effectiveness through experimentation and processual inquiry through critical creative responses within their own disciplines.
MACD7102
Innovations in PrintmakingThrough a negotiated selective process, you will be able to explore and develop responses using the printmaking facilities available to you within the School of Art, Design & Architecture, including screenprinting, letterpress, relief printing, intaglio, risograph and digital printing methods.You critically evaluate and reflect upon the success or failure of various approaches as appropriate to your practice and ambitions, forming a positive plan of action for the future.
Every postgraduate taught course has a detailed programme specification document describing the programme aims, the programme structure, the teaching and learning methods, the learning outcomes and the rules of assessment.
The following programme specification represents the latest programme structure and may be subject to change:
Entry requirements
Fees, costs and funding
2024-2025 | 2025-2026 | |
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Home | £9,500 | £9,700 |
International | £17,600 | £18,150 |
Part time (Home) | £530 | £540 |
Scholarships for international students
Postgraduate scholarships for international students
Tuition fee discount for University of Plymouth graduates
- 10% or 20% discount on tuition fees for home students
- For 2024/2025 entry, a 20% discount on tuition fees for international students (International alumni who have applied to the University through an agent are not eligible to receive the discount)
How to apply
When to apply
Before you apply
- evidence of qualifications (degree certificates or transcripts), with translations if not in English, to show that you meet, or expect to meet the entry requirements
- evidence of English language proficiency, if English is not your first language
- a personal statement of approximately 250-400 words about the reasons for your interest in the course and outlining the nature of previous and current related experience. You can write this into the online application form, or include it as a separate document
- your curriculum vitae or résumé, including details of relevant professional/voluntary experience, professional registration/s and visa status for overseas workers
- proof of sponsorship, if applicable.
Disability Inclusion Services
International students
Submitting an application
What happens after I apply?
Telephone: +44 1752 585858
Email: admissions@plymouth.ac.uk
Admissions policy
Realise your ideas with our state-of-the-art facilities

From the fully equipped studios geared at commercial level to our traditional darkrooms and analogue provisions, we have it all.

Experiment with cutting-edge technology such as motion-capture, augmented and extended reality.

Take advantage of multimedia equipment that can be loaned and facilities that can be booked in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business.
Learn from research-active experts
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Dr Carole Baker
Lecturer in Photography
Programme Lead. Research centres around the human relationship with nature
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Mr Jamie House
Visiting Specialist
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Ms Kate Paxman
International applicants
We offer several scholarships for international students wishing to study on this programme, including the
At the University of Plymouth, we have a thriving international community made up of 2,000 students from over 100 different countries.
