Creative Writing – (Ph.D.)

Our Department of English, Communication, Film and Media has a number of published creative writers among its permanent staff, working in fiction, poetry, screenwriting and writing for performance. These creative outputs are included in our submission for the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), which monitors the quality of research in UK universities, English at Anglia Ruskin has an excellent track record of research success as evidenced by its score of 5 in the 2001 RAE and the very high percentage of 4* and 3* research submitted to the 2008 REF. Our Grade Point Average was equivalent to that achieved by the Universities of Sussex, Lancaster, and Leicester, and we were the 11th highest scoring department, in terms of outputs, in the country.

Our writers are involved with local, national and international networks for publishing and performance. We offer a wide range of research interests within creative writing and have particular strengths in the short story; engagement with science and technology (all genres); experimental poetry; and screenwriting. We are committed to supporting creative development, fostering an excellent research environment and enabling students to make the most of the advantages offered by Cambridge for research and creative networking.

Our creative writing staff are highly active authors and performers (recent work is listed on each staff member's research activity page). There are strong collaborative links between staff in Writing and creative practitioners in Film, Media, Music and Drama at Anglia Ruskin. There are many formal and informal exchanges between staff and students from our Department and local organisations for fiction, poetry and theatre, including Cambridge Wordfest, Menagerie Theatre, Writers' Centre Norwich, CB1 Poetry, Women's Word at Lucy Cavendish College, and University of Cambridge Faculty of English and Department of History and Philosophy of Science.