Stories are powerful tools for change. Narratives shape how we understand the world and respond to its challenges, which is why skills in analysing, creating, and interpreting stories are in greater demand than ever.
This programme will prepare you to apply critical and creative thinking to real-world challenges in order to better engage with the stories that influence our collective futures.
Over the course of the programme, you will develop your data-literacy skills in order to better understand the stories we can tell with and about data; evaluate forms, technologies and disciplinary norms and their role in storytelling; craft more compelling and impactful stories to appeal to and include a wide range of audiences and communities; and refine your scholarly research.
If you want to investigate how narratives shape our lived realities and how they can offer alternative ways of imagining the future, then this programme is for you. Whether your background or ambitions are creative, technical, governmental or academic, you will be able to apply the insights gained during your studies.
The programme offers all the benefits of interdisciplinarity while maintaining a strong emphasis on integration by bringing together three broad areas of inquiry: art, data and society.
You will learn how narratives are being transformed:
For your final project, you will apply your conceptual understanding of storytelling dynamics to produce a new narrative artefact of your own or to critically analyse an existing narrative medium or practice.
This forward-looking programme combines hands-on creative and data skills development with research-led theoretical inquiry to help you master the narratives through which human beings perceive and recreate the world.
This programme is part of an interconnected portfolio of postgraduate study opportunities at Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI). EFI supports interdisciplinary teaching, learning, and research that addresses today’s most complex global and social challenges.
A UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent, in any discipline.
We will also consider your application if you have other professional qualifications or experience; please contact us to check before you apply. In particular, we welcome applications from any area or sector that focuses on narrative creation or interpretation. This includes but is not limited to: the creative industries, journalism, public advocacy, communications, PR and marketing, tourism and heritage, education.
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