The Master of Arts in Contemporary Creative Writing at Northeastern University London equips students with the knowledge, craft skills and discipline needed to be a creative writer now. There are more routes to publication available than ever before. However, navigating the twenty-first century literary marketplace requires specialist skills and knowledge alongside artistic prowess.

Rooted in the real world, this course will help you to gain all the practical skills and experience you’ll need to pursue a thriving career in journalism. Good journalism is essential to a functioning society. This course is designed to give you all the valuable skills and knowledge needed to work in the diverse and fast-moving environment that is modern journalism and media.

Our MA Illustration course encourages you to question the nature of your practice and its context and position relative to the creative industries. The course allows you to further refine your creative identity, offering a bridge between HE and professional illustration practice. It offers a great opportunity for creative professionals to return to university in order to reflect upon their creative practice and change direction.

The MA in Library and Archive Studies is taught in collaboration with The University of Manchester Library (UML). This is major multi-site research library with National Research Library status. It includes the stunning John Rylands Research Institute and Library with its world-leading collections of archives and rare books and cutting-edge digital practices. The Library has close links to research and teaching through the John Rylands Research Institute and Library and the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. These relationships give students on the MA in Library and Archive Studies the opportunity to engage with a wealth of academic specialisms closely linked to Library and Archive Studies, in addition to benefitting from broad-ranging core courses centred on working with special collections.

The Intelligent Mobility MA programme builds on the rich history of vehicle design at the RCA, and places this within the context of a number of emerging social, cultural and technical changes. These include the shift to autonomous systems, renewable power, demographic changes and the increasing synthesis between man and machine. The programme defines and describes a paradigm shift which brings together existing fields with a design-led approach that addresses both physical and virtual aspects of the mobility space as an integrated whole.

Our MA International Luxury Brand Business presents an exceptional, industry-focused programme designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the commercial, business, and strategic facets of fashion media, alongside business management and leadership skills relevant to media industries.

Creative technologies are transforming the way we engage with the world, and extended realities (XR) - such as Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) -are at the forefront of this change, increasingly shaping industries like arts, entertainment, gaming, architecture, and education.

The specialized modules offered in this MA Serious and Violent Crime course delve into the various forms of serious and violent crime. With a practical approach, you will acquire the necessary expertise, skills, and qualities to take on leadership roles in this field. These modules encompass topics such as reflective practice, leadership, the psychology of serious offenses, and more, providing you with a distinctive opportunity to thoroughly examine serious and violent crime.

In this Gender Studies course, you’ll gain a deep understanding of a range of topics, from identity and the social construction of gender to political aspects of gender and feminist research. You’ll benefit from the expertise of the Centre for Gender Studies. We look at many areas of gender research, nationally and internationally. We’re intersectional, trans-inclusive, and advocate for sex workers’ rights.

Political violence, terrorism, and civil conflict have seriously affected the lives of millions of people around the world. Moreover, the legacy of 9/11, the rise of groups like ISIS in Syria and Iraq, and the emergence of far-right groups in the West have brought questions about the nature, evolution, causes, and consequences of non-state political violence to the forefront of academic, policymaking, media, and popular debates. Similarly, security responses to these challenges feature prominently in global politics. Governments pursue security strategies to preserve order and protect their citizens. Yet many governments also participate in conflict and political violence by holding onto power and preserving systemic injustices.

MA in Translation qualification is an exciting opportunity to develop your skills as a professional translator, equipping you to work in the fast-growing translation services industry. You will experiment with different genres through practical, inspiring translation activities, and hone your practice through peer review. You will gain hands-on experience in using tools necessary to operate in this rapidly evolving area (e.g. audiovisual translation or cloud-based translation tools).

Advance your career in digital media with the University of Birmingham’s MA Digital Media & Global Communication. This online, flexible program equips you with the skills, knowledge, and tools needed for success in media, communications, and creative industries.

If you want to jump into an exciting career in a rapidly expanding field, our MA promotional media course is the perfect fit for you. Promotional media sits at the intersection of PR, marketing and advertising, meaning that you will be able to enter any of these fields equipped with the skills, knowledge and confidence to succeed.

Turn your creativity into your career with our MA Digital Media and Creative Industries. Get the knowledge and skills you need to build a thriving career in the arts and cultural industries. This MA will enhance your professional skills and give you the knowledge and expertise to progress, whether you're a graduate looking to pursue a creative career or someone who already works in the industry who's looking to lead and inspire.

This flexible project-based postgraduate course is open to artists and designers wishing to develop fresh assumptions for their creative practice by means of innovative, practice-based, research-driven approaches to creative enquiry. Informed by a spirit of interdisciplinary experimentation, and underpinned by conceptual understanding, MA Art & Design promotes awareness of the value-informed nature of leading-edge contemporary art and design.