Creative Writing Research Degrees: Range and Rigour

摘要

In 2008, a snapshot of Higher Education in the UK reveals a rapidly growing number of professional doctorates, work-based learning doctorates and practice-based PhDs in subjects including Creative Writing. But there continues to be widespread disagreement about the equivalence of these forms of higher level degrees.rnMore than 10 years ago, in 1997, the UK Council for Graduate Education put together a report on practice-based doctorates in the Creative. and Performing Arts and Design, which summarised a practice-based PhD as The mastery of the existing techniques and knowledge base of the subject, a critical and analytical attitude towards them, and ability to apply them with a view to originating new knowledge or understanding and an ability to originate a contribution which is judged valid and significant'.