Arts Statement-Of-research-Intent June 2023
Arts Statement-Of-research-Intent June 2023
Arts Statement-Of-research-Intent June 2023
Your details
Name of applicant:
Those unable to do so will be supported, but the application process may be delayed. If
no appropriate supervisor can be identified, the application will be declined.
Area of research interest
Please provide an abstract of your proposed research, clearly identifying its aims and
objectives (350-word limit).
3. Scholarly context:
Please supply a concise review of the most significant research pertinent to your field
(350-words).
4. Research design:
Please describe the major methods and/or theoretical framework you will use to collect
and analyse the information needed in your research project and explain how these will
facilitate your goals (350-words).
A PhD must make an original and significant contribution to knowledge or understanding in its
field(s), meet internationally recognized standards for such work, demonstrate knowledge of the
literature relevant to the subject and the field(s) to which the subject belongs and the ability to
exercise critical and analytical judgement of that literature, and be satisfactory in its methodology,
quality and coherence of expression, scholarly presentation and format.
Scholarly creative work (written or otherwise) that forms an integrated whole with a written
document may, subject to the PhD including scholarly creative work policy and procedures,
be submitted for examination as part of the PhD thesis requirement. Scholarly creative work may
include, but is not limited to, written fiction or creative nonfiction, performance, exhibitions and/or
artefacts (such as images, composition, designs, models, structures, digital media).
All PhD research projects must involve enquiry that is experimental and/or critical in
nature and be driven by an intellectual hypothesis, position, problem or question(s)
capable of being rigorously explored and of making an original and significant contribution
to knowledge and/or understanding in the relevant field(s) of study.
While the work submitted for examination must present an integrated as well as rigorous
approach to an intellectual hypothesis, position, problem or question(s), the written
document (excluding any scholarly creative writing submitted as part of the thesis
requirement) remains the primary presentation of the outcome of the PhD research
project, and the primary examinable output. It must be approximately 60% of the
disciplinary norm (at the University of Auckland) for PhD thesis length where scholarly
creative work is not presented as part of the thesis requirement.
Scholarly creative practice that forms part of the research process and/or generation of
material for analysis but which is not itself assessable as (part of) the presentation of an
original and significant contribution to knowledge and/or understanding may be reported in
the thesis but is not appropriate for submission for examination as part of the thesis
requirement.
Please describe:
i. How the scholarly creative practice, philosophical paradigms and critical theories will
inform the research project
ii. How the written document and examinable scholarly creative work will form an integrated
and rigorous approach to the research topic.
7. Required Resources:
Please identify your expectations of how the production of this scholarly creative work (and any
associated scholarly creative work within your research project) will be resourced.
Please list a select bibliography of major works that inform your research.
9. Relevant experience:
Please use this section to comment on any specific skills, knowledge, and experience
you bring to the proposed project? Briefly state why you are a strong candidate to
undertake the project described (350-words)
Only complete if you are applying for a University of Auckland or Faculty of Arts
Doctoral Scholarship (350-words).
10. Explain how your research fits with our strategic objectives.
For further details, please visit Faculty of Arts selection criteria for UoA doctoral
scholarships.