Professional Diploma in Art and Design Research

Educational Standard

All applicants are expected to present an approved Bachelor degree at minimum level of 2nd class honours (2.2)

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)  – Applicants who do not meet the minimum academic entry requirements for admission may be considered on the basis of a recognition of previous  learning  whether based on prior relevant experience or other relevant credited or non credited or learning (RPL). In such cases each applicant will be considered on a case-by-case basis based on a review of the applicant’s CV and other supporting documentation.

Please contact ncad@creativefutures.ie for further information.

Qualifying Examination –  In certain cases the academic team may choose to set a qualifying assignment in order to assess an applicant’s suitability for admission.

Candidates may be required to pass a qualifying examination set by the relevant department before being accepted to a Masters degree programme. Attendance at selected undergraduate lecture courses at NCAD, together with related written work may be prescribed.

You may apply for the programme if you are currently completing your Undergraduate Degree. NCAD will review the rest of your application If necessary, we can make you a Conditional Offer. When your degree is completed and you send us final transcripts we will upgrade this to a Full Offer.

Applicants who have not been educated through English must show proof of achieving IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 6 in the writing section on the Academic Version) or an equivalent score in another accepted test.

Essential Supporting Documentation

A statement framing your reasons for applying to the programme, i.e. how attending the above selected course will benefit you and your practice  (500 words)

A recent CV

Certified transcripts of previous programmes followed

Certified copies of degree/ certificates and/or other appropriate third level qualifications bearing the official stamp of the institution.

High level research skills and critical understanding of research practices are vital skills for many artists and designers working today, as well as curators, arts writers and critics. They are required for successful funding applications to arts organisations. 

The professional diploma is also be an excellent foundation for a future research degree (MPhil, MLitt, MRes, PhD)

Applications are now closed

Fee

€2200 or €1100*

*Human Capital Initiative HCI Pillar 3 Micro-Credentials Subsidy funding

Applicants to this course are eligible for Human Capital Initiative HCI Pillar 3 Micro-Credentials Subsidy funding. The subsidy for this course is 50% of the total course costs for eligible learners. Terms & Conditions apply.

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Dr. Declan Long

Email: longd@staff.ncad.ie

Dr Declan Long is Head of Doctoral Studies and Co-Director (with Dr Francis Halsall) of the MA/MFA Art in the Contemporary World. He writes regularly on contemporary art and related subjects for a range of publications including Artforum International and Source Photographic Review. He is the author of Ghost-Haunted Land: Contemporary Art and Post-Troubles Northern Ireland (Manchester University Press, 2017; updated with new preface, 2020): an in-depth analysis of art made in response to changing conditions in the north of Ireland during the two decades following the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. (“A foundational work of art criticism … a first point of reference for anyone interested in the Troubles and their cultural legacies” — Prof. Nicholas Allen, The Irish Times). While art from Northern Ireland has been a key area of research interest over recent years — with the work of Derry-born photography and film artist Willie Doherty a particular focus — he has also written extensively on art from Ireland more generally, and from other parts of the world. Recent work includes texts on the history of Ireland’s exhibitions at the Venice Biennale (Journal of Curatorial Studies, 2021) and essays for publications on the work of Dorothy Cross, Eva Rothschild, Emily Jacir and Merlin James.

Dr. Lisa Godson

Email: godsonl@ncad.ie

Lisa Godson is a cultural historian and Programme Leader of the MA Design History and Material Culture at NCAD, a unique postgraduate programme run in partnership with the National Museum of Ireland. Her research interests include the material culture of ritual, ‘tropical’ modern architecture in West Africa, the history of medical devices and the material culture of Catholicism. She studied History of Art at Trinity College Dublin and History of Design at the Royal College of Art/Victoria & Albert Museum, London (MA, PhD).
 

Dr. Sarah Pierce

pierces@staff.ncad.ie

Sarah Pierce is an artist and educator who lives in Dublin. Pierce holds a PhD from Goldsmiths College at London University and an MFA from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and is a past participant of the Whitney Museum ISP in New York. In 2013, Book Works published the first monograph on Pierce’s work, edited by Rike Frank and designed by Peter Maybury, entitled Sketches of Universal History Compiled from Several Authors by Sarah Pierce. Exhibitions in 2015 include a four-person show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art called El Lissitzky: the Artist and the State; Sarah Pierce: Pathos of Distance, a new commission for the National Gallery of Ireland; and a presentation of new work for Positions #2, curated by Annie Fletcher at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.