This postgraduate radio degree builds on our long-standing broadcasting expertise. The skills and contacts you will gain during the course provide excellent prospects for entering the broadcasting industry.
Essential Info
This postgraduate radio degree builds on our long-standing broadcasting expertise. The University of Glamorgan was the first university in the country to be awarded our own community radio station licence, GTfm, after winning a number of national awards for our student RSLs. We have strong links with many other radio stations, including the BBC, and our campus in Cardiff has led to new links with other community stations.
We are fully aware of the impact of convergence on the radio industry and actively integrate web output into our courses. It is expected that as a postgraduate radio degree student Glamorgan, you will take full advantage of Glamorgan’s Tequila Radio station. It offers an opportunity to get involved in presenting and producing shows on a regular basis to complement your academic studies.
This course is accredited by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC).
If you choose to study on a postgraduate course at the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, you will also benefit from being part of a vibrant international student community.
What You Will Study
As part of the MA Radio degree you will undertake an audio production module and generate a range of material for radio programmes on a weekly basis. You will develop production skills for live programming and audio for digital platforms.
Work experience is an essential part of your learning. Other areas of study that support your professional practice include ethics and regulation, media theory and law, plus an optional module such as online or investigative journalism. A major module in professional practice will allow you to achieve a challenging piece of broadcast work.
Common Modules
The Faculty understands the importance of a strong grounding in research knowledge and skills, enterprise and innovation as part of a balanced postgraduate education.
We also recognise that each student has different requirements of their postgraduate experience.
You can choose to study one of the following three, 20 credit common modules. Each of these has a different focus, enabling you to select the module that will be most beneficial to you.
Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship
This module aims to develop your knowledge of the methods to identify, develop and manage enterprise and innovation in the creative sector. It will then help you apply this to your own entrepreneurial project.
Research and Practice in the Creative and Cultural Industries
The focus of this module is on the development of research knowledge and skills, while also encouraging critical engagement with approaches to creative practice. You will also explore ideas, debates and issues in the creative and cultural industries.
Research Paradigms
This module focuses on research paradigms and their theoretical underpinnings. It also looks at key conceptual tools drawn from a wide range of subject areas relevant to postgraduate research in the creative industries.
How You Will Study
Much of the production work will be conducted in our radio studios in Cardiff and will be taught by professional broadcasters. At least half the degree will be practice-based, but you will be expected to show evidence of being a reflective practitioner. Although Glamorgan’s MA Radio course will be taught in English, it is possible to submit work through the medium of Welsh.
Learning Through Employment
Learning Through Employment is a University of Glamorgan framework that offers students who are already in employment the opportunity to gain credits towards a postgraduate qualification.
The programme is structured so that the majority of learning takes place through active and reflective engagement with your work activities, underpinned by the appropriate academic knowledge and skills.
All postgraduate courses at the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries offer students the opportunity to undertake a 60 credit Learning Through Employment Research Project as an alternative to a traditional final dissertation, major project or production.
The focus of the project is an individual, organisational problem solving, knowledge-based approach.
As such, it has been is designed for practising professionals to provide them with the tools to succeed in the workplace.
This truly flexible approach means that projects can be based on an agreed area of work, benefitting students and employers, and because the majority of the project is carried out in the workplace, it can potentially be undertaken anywhere in the world.
For full details, visit our Learning Through Employment pages.
Possible Career Options
The skills and contacts you will gain during this MA Radio course provide excellent prospects for entering the broadcasting industry.
Additional Information
Facilities
Our purpose built ATRiuM campus in Cardiff features state-of-the-art radio studios along with facilities for audio and video production and editing, graphic design, studio recording and more. The building is an engine room for the next generation of media practitioners and thinkers. Read more on our facilities page
