ABSTRACT

G1.3 Programmes of research may be proposed in any field of study subject to the requirement that the proposed programme is capable of leading to scholarly research and to its presentation for assessment by appropriate examiners. Thewritten thesis may be supplemented by material in other than writtenform…

G3.3 Candidates may undertake a programme of research in which the candidate’s own creative work forms, as a point of origin or reference, a significant part of the intellectual inquiry. Such creative work may be in any field,* but must have been undertaken as part of the registered research programme. In such cases, the presentation and submission may be partly in other than written form. The creative work must be clearly presented in relation to the argument of a written thesis and set in its relevant theoretical, historical, critical or design context. The thesis itself must conform to the usual scholarly requirements and be of an appropriate length (see G3.9.9) below. The final submission must be accompanied by some permanent record† of the creative work, where practicable, bound with the thesis…

The notes accompanying the regulations state: * For instance, fine art, design, engineering and

technology,architecture, creative writing, musical composition, film, dance orperformance.