Yr 2 Graduate Research Proposal

What is a proposal?

What it absolutely is not is a contract which you will be held to - it doesn't need to spell out what you will make, or what your final exhibition will look like! It is much more aimed at sharing your current research; showing a plausible direction for the year; and offering some initial ideas about steps (including very practical ones) you might take towards your final project.

Proposal text Draft deadline: September 11th Proposal workshop: October 1st Final deadline: October 6th

Initially the proposal takes the form of a short text (maximum 1000 words) which is part of your proposal assessment in October, when we discuss your plans for the graduation year.

There is no set form for the proposal text, but it should in some form try to address the following things:

- What is your question or questions? Your zone of interest and inquiry?

- What concrete actions do you plan to take / what research methods do you plan to use to develop your inquiry? What will you do? What will you make? What will you look at? Who will you talk to? What will you read?

- What other practices / bodies of thinking / making will your work be in conversation with?

- How might you approach the written component (your graduation essay)?

- What kind of actual support will you need? Material / technical / time-management and so on.

- A bibliography of possible sources.

What you produce over summer can be a very rough sketch. But try to start the thinking, researching and reading already so you can provide some specifics.

We can provide you with examples but there is not a template to follow here - the key is to try to be coherent and convincing, to make a persuasive case for a plausible line of research and making, even if you are only speculating at this point.