UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE
Programme Specification: Doctor of Arts in Creative Arts (Music Industry
Management and Promotion).
This Programme Specification provides a concise summary of the main features of the programme and
the learning outcomes that a typical student might reasonably be expected to achieve and demonstrate
if he/ she takes full advantage of the learning opportunities that are provided.
Sources of information on the programme can be found in Section 17.
1. Awarding Institution/ Body
University of Central Lancashire.
2. Teaching Institution and
Location of Delivery
UCLan Preston Campus.
3. University School/ Centre
School of Film, Media and Performance
4. External Accreditation
None.
5. Title of Final Award
Professional Doctorate in Creative Arts (Music
Industry Management and Promotion).
6. Modes of Attendance
Offered
Full-time or Part-time.
7. UCAS Code
Not Applicable.
8. Relevant Subject
Benchmarking Group(s)
Not Applicable.
9. Other External Influences
Vitae Student Barometer and Professional Doctorate
Reports.
10. Date of Production/
Revision of this Form
27th May 2012.
11. Aims of the Programme
The Professional Doctorate in Creative Arts (Music Industry Management and
Promotion). aims to:
 Develop your knowledge and understanding of current practice in the music industry.
 Evaluate the impact of digital technology on the creative industries.
 Analyse the challenges new technology poses to the music industry.
 Appraise opportunities for new models of management and promotion of creative
product.
 Develop skills for effective planning and management of industry based projects.
 Enhance complex conceptual, contextual, theoretical, and philosophical
understanding.
 Refine articulation to professional standards.
 Foster understanding of health and safety, risk assessments, leadership styles, plus
the strategic, systems, and operational aspects of project management.
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Manage people, regulatory procedures, professional ethics, resources, and finances to
facilitate specialist arts praxis for specified targets.
 Foster valid, rationalised, ethically constituted, and critically evaluated research.
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Enhance and refine academic, research, specialist praxis, and professional skills to
publication standards.
 Build knowledge and understanding of infrastructures, collaborative partnerships,
systems and strategic project management, dissemination, and entrepreneurialism.
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Enhance each student’s practitioner-researcher profile by professional dissemination
of innovative praxis.
Enhance and refine innovative specialist arts praxis to publication and professional
exhibition/ performance standards.
Enhance and refine complex conceptual, contextual, theoretical, and philosophical
appreciation to expert standing.
Refine articulation to expert publication standards.
Synthesise project management and innovative realisation for the professional
exhibition, performance, or dissemination of doctorate arts praxis that is fully
contextualised.
Define substantial contribution to original knowledge within the realisation,
documentation, and evaluation of full-scale doctorate arts praxis.
12. Learning Outcomes, Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Methods
A. Knowledge and Understanding
A1. Investigate current trends within the Music Industry.
A2. Identify, present and discuss critical issues relevant to areas of research.
A3. Define and document self-devised specialist praxis within the arts.
A4. Gain ethical approval for specialist postgraduate research.
A5. Gain research programme approval.
Teaching and Learning Methods
Independent Studies; Supervisory Team Consultation; Lectures and Seminars; Symposia;
Tutorials; Case Studies and Reviews; Action Learning Sets and Group Discussions; Critique
Sessions; Formative Assessments; Role-plays, Workshops, and Practical Skills Sessions; and
Plenary Session.
Assessment Methods
Strategic Document; Seminar Presentation/ Conference Paper; Major Project with Supporting
Portfolio; Practical Project with Project Management Documentation; plus Essay and Project
Plan Presentation.
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B. Subject-Specific Skills
B1. Evaluate promotional strategies for music industry products and events.
B2. Evaluate and prepare musical material for public release or performance.
B3. Produce a project plan for the management and promotion of music product or event.
B4. Analyse the operation and management of a music industry structure.
B5. Apply contextual and specialist music industry knowledge to a professional project.
B6. Appraise music industry strategies for management and promotion.
B7. Manage and facilitate self-devised specialist praxis within the arts in accordance with
regulations and professional ethics.
B8. Manage the realisation of a major project within the public domain.
B9. Define a personal, practice-based research project that meets the criteria required for
presentation of the resulting work in a professional setting.
B10. Conceptualise and realise a diagnostic pilot arts project that is suitable for exhibition,
performance, or dissemination.
B11. Test pertinent strategies, theories or concepts, methods, processes or techniques.
B12. Archive, document, analyse, critique, and reflectively evaluate the diagnostic pilot arts
project.
B13. Contextualise innovative arts praxis and identify potential for substantial contribution to
original knowledge.
B14. Fully realise a practice-based doctorate arts project that makes substantial contribution
to original knowledge.
B15. Produce professional documentation that expertly defines, rationalises, contextualises,
and evaluates the doctorate arts project and its substantial contribution to original knowledge.
B16. Defend, within a viva, the doctorate arts project and its substantial contribution to original
knowledge.
Teaching and Learning Methods
Independent Studies; Supervisory Meetings; Internship or Tour(s)/ Visits; Role-plays,
Workshops, and Practical Skills Sessions; Industrial Placement; Symposia; Group Work;
Student Presentations and Peer Reviews; Case Studies; Reflective Practice Sessions;
Critique Sessions; Tutorials; Formative Assessments; Screenings and Debates; Plenary
Session; Action Learning Sets and Group Discussions; Lectures and Seminars; plus
Induction.
Assessment Methods
Doctorate Arts Project with Documentation, Portfolio, and Viva Voce Examination; Diagnostic
Pilot Arts Project, including Support Material with Reflective Evaluation; Strategic Document;
Major Project with Supporting Portfolio; Practical Project with Project Management
Documentation; Essay and Project Plan Presentation; plus: Portfolio, Presentation, and Viva
Voce.
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C. Thinking Skills
C1. Analyse the challenges and opportunities created by new technology.
C2. Identify and evaluate criteria relevant to the formulation of a rigorous research
presentation.
C3. Evaluate self-devised specialist praxis within the arts and critically reflect upon key
strategic, systems, and operational aspects.
C4. Conceptualise, design, and critically evaluate a valid research project.
C5. Prepare a strategic document for the management, realisation, and dissemination of
original, professional, doctorate arts praxis.
Teaching and Learning Methods
Independent Studies; Supervisory Team Consultation; Symposia; Lectures and Seminars;
Case Studies and Reviews; Critique Sessions; Tutorials; Formative Assessment; Action
Learning Sets and Group Discussions; Plenary Session; Role-plays, Workshops, and
Practical Skills Sessions; Induction; plus Project Orientation.
Assessment Methods
Strategic Document; Seminar Presentation/ Conference Paper; Major Project with Supporting
Portfolio; Practical Project with Project Management Documentation; plus: Essay and Project
Plan Presentation.
D. Other Skills relevant to Employability and Personal Development
D1. Work effectively as a member of a team within a music industry context.
D2. Plan and deliver industry project outcomes to agreed deadlines.
D3. Manage projects within agreed budgets.
D4. Uphold professional ethics and academic protocol.
D5. Manage risk assessment, health and safety compliance, and a budget.
Teaching and Learning Methods
Supervisory Team Meetings; Internship/ Tour(s)/ Visit(s); Industrial Placement; Independent
Studies; Student Presentations, Peer Reviews, and Reflective Practice Sessions; Role-plays,
Workshops, and Practical Skills Sessions; Action Learning Sets and Group Discussions; Case
Studies and Reviews; Critique Sessions; Tutorials; Formative Assessment; Plenary Session;
Lectures and Seminars; plus Induction.
Assessment Methods
Seminar Presentation/ Conference Paper; Practical Project with Project Management
Documentation; plus Portfolio, Presentation, and Viva Voce.
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13.
Programme Structures*
Level
Module
Code
Level 7
Level 7
MU4000(L7)
MU4001(L7)
Level 7
Level 7
Level 7
Level 8
Level 8
Level 8
DZ4001(L7)
DZ4002(L7)
DZ4003(L7)
DZ5001(L8)
DZ5002(L8)
DZ5003(L8)
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Module Title
Awards and Credits*
Credit
Rating
Music Industry Placement
Music Industry: Product and
Audience
Research Design
Professional Arts Practice
Arts Research Project
Strategic Management
Diagnostic Pilot Arts Project
Doctorate Arts Project
40
20
20
40
60
60
60
240
The DProf in Creative Arts
(Music Industry Management
and Promotion) requires 540
Credits, consisting of: 360 Credits
at Level 8 and 180 Credits at Level
7.
The Master of Arts in Music
Industry
Management
and
Promotion requires 180 Credits at
Level 7.
The Postgraduate Diploma in
Music Industry Management and
Promotion requires 120 Credits at
Level 7.
The Postgraduate Certificate in
Music Industry Management and
Promotion requires 60 Credits at
Level 7.
Personal Development Planning
You are required to maintain a Progress File which is reviewed annually by your full Supervisory Team,
Research Degrees Tutor (RDT), and Dean of School, to inform Progression Board Recommendations
made by the Business, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Degrees Committee (BAHSS
RDSC). Supervision records, research training programme certificates, and reflective evaluation of
your own progress must be contained within the Progress File. The Progress File should also include
your archive of seminar or conference presentations given during completion of the professional
doctorate, together with peer feedback. As well as assisting you to own, manage, map, focus, monitor,
and review your own learning experiences, the Progress File assists the Supervisory Team and RDT in
identifying and understanding your particular learning preferences, expectations, and requirements;
specific areas where any additional support is required; plus specific strengths and weaknesses of the
programme design and implementation. You may want to create a separate Personal Development
Plan (PDP) or, as recommended, extend your Progress File so that it includes all that would be
incorporated into a PDP. Your Progress File/ PDP should record/ document and reflectively evaluate
any internship(s) or placement(s) undertaken during your professional doctorate. Links to journal
article(s)/ chapter(s) you have published during your professional doctorate should be contained within
your Progress File/ PDP, together with digital media archive(s) of your exhibition(s)/ performance(s)/
event(s)/ creation(s). The inclusion of link(s) to your professional website(s)/ other source(s) of public
domain information about your work, are encouraged. Your Progress File/ PDP is valuable for taking
stock of progress throughout the professional doctorate and beyond, mapping progress against the time
management plan/ plan of work that you generated for research programme approval within the first
months of your level eight study, and accounting for any revisions so that your practitioner-research
portfolio is always planned through to successful timely completion. Your Progress File/ PDP can be
enhanced by using it also to catalogue valuable opportunities for Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) and/ or career development that arise during the course of your professional doctorate, such as:
membership of professional bodies/ associations, key contacts, post-doctoral funding opportunities,
prospective post-doctoral collaborative opportunities, and/ or prospective publishing/ further practice or
research opportunities. You are encouraged to present your work at the Research Student Annual
Conference, plus there are internal and external competitions for which you may win awards that we
also encourage you to catalogue within your Progress File/ PDP.
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16.
Admissions Criteria
Programme Specifications include minimum entry requirements, including academic
qualifications, together with appropriate experience and skills required for entry to study.
These criteria may be expressed as a range rather than a specific grade. Amendments to
entry requirements may have been made after these documents were published and you
should consult the University’s website for the most up to date information.
Students will be informed of their personal minimum entry criteria in their offer letter.
Admission is by application form plus interview. We accept applications up until July each
year. Applicants are encouraged to provide a portfolio of work at interview with example(s) of
the applicant’s art(s) practice(s) or\ and example(s) of practitioner-research. There are four
key aspects to the interview: for the interviewers to determine whether the School is able to
support the application, taking into account all issues of Governance; for applicants to gain
deeper insight in to the course in order to make the best possible informed decision; for
applicants to provide substantial insight into their practice(s) and course-related expectations;
for the interviewer(s) to determine whether the applicant(s) would benefit from the course and
have high probability of achieving timely completion. The application procedure addresses
prospective students’ strengths and requirements in respect of: professional and/ or
experiential knowledge; practical skills; communication and interpersonal skills; plus academic
ability. We prefer applicants to have become established as professional practitioners or
practitioner-researchers and, if they have not already been awarded an equivalent master’s
level degree, to have achieved (the equivalent of) a first/ higher second-class Bachelor of Arts
degree. Applicants for entry to level seven are welcome with qualifications in subjects across
the arts and are required to demonstrate understanding of and commitment to creative
practice. If applicants do not have the preferred entry qualifications, they will be considered
with equivalent qualifications or if they can demonstrate how they will benefit from this course
and achieve timely completion.
International Applicants
We welcome applications from international students and the application procedure previously
described should be used. International applicants should also be able to demonstrate IELTS
of at least 6.5. Forms and literature regarding study in the UK are available from the British
Council Offices or British Embassies throughout the world.
Applicants with Disabilities/ Learning Difficulties
We welcome applications from students with disabilities/ learning difficulties and the
application procedure previously described should be used. We recommend that applicants
with disabilities/ learning difficulties contact us to discover the support we can offer –
Telephone/ Text Phone: (+44) 01772 892593.
Accreditation of Prior Learning
Applicants who already possess an equivalent master’s level degree may gain direct entry to
the level eight modules (the practitioner-researcher component of the course) if there is
sufficient parity between the existing degree and the proposed practitioner-research.
Accreditation of Prior Certificated Learning (APCL) or Accreditation of Prior Experiential
Learning (APEL) may be claimed in relation to this course up to a maximum of 180 Level 7
Credits.
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17.
Key Sources of Information about the Programme
Course Leader for DA Creative Arts (DACA): Dr Nick Casswell. Telephone: (+44) 01772
894293. Email: NJCasswell@uclan.ac.uk. Office: University of Central Lancashire. Preston.
Lancashire. PR1 2HE. UK. School of Art, Design and Performance. DACP: Dr Nick Casswell.
Media Factory: ME127.
DACA Information Pack: available from Dr Nick Casswell: NJCasswell@uclan.ac.uk.
DACA Handbooks: available from Dr Nick Casswell: NJCasswell@uclan.ac.uk.
Course Leader for MA Music Industry Management and Promotion (MAMIMP): Les Gillon
Telephone: (+44) 01772 893908 Email: lgillon@uclan.ac.uk.
Office: University of Central
Lancashire. Preston. Lancashire. PR1 2HE. UK. School of Art, Design and Performance.
Media Factory ME224.
Music Industry Management and Promotion Information Pack: available from the Course
Leader.
UCLan Web Site: www.uclan.ac.uk/information/courses/index.php.
Postgraduate Prospectus: available from the Admissions’ Office or the School of Art, Design
and Performance Office.
Postgraduate Open Days, Applicant Days, and Campus Tours, facilitated periodically, ordinarily
on Wednesdays or at Weekends by Advancement Services: Telephone: (+44) 01772 201201 or
Book Online at: www.uclan.ac.uk/opendays.
School of Art, Design and Performance Office: University of Central Lancashire. Preston.
Lancashire. PR1 2HE. UK. School of Art, Design and Performance Office. Victoria Building:
VB120-VB126. Telephone: (+44) 01772 893959. Email: janpcrane@uclan.ac.uk.
Graduate Research School Office: University of Central Lancashire. Preston. Lancashire. PR1
2HE.
UK.
Greenbank Building GR001.
Telephone: (+44) 01772 895082.
Email:
kapatel@uclan.ac.uk.
Admissions’ Office: Enquiry Management at the University of Central Lancashire. Preston.
Lancashire. PR1 2HE. UK. Foster Building. Telephone: (+44) 01772 892400. Fax: (+44)
01772 894959. Email: cenquiries@uclan.ac.uk.
Marketing Services: Telephone: (+44) 01772 892700.
Support for Applicants with Disabilities/ Learning Difficulties: Telephone/ Text Phone: (+44)
01772 892593 (please note: this is not a course specific resource).
UCLan Student Union: www.uclansu.co.uk (please note: this is not a course specific resource).
British Council's Website: www.educationuk.org (please note: this is not a course specific
resource).
Preston City Life: www.visitpreston.com (please note: this is not a course specific resource).
Online Application Form:
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/information/prospective_students/how_to_apply/postgraduate.php.
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18.
Curriculum Skills Map
Please tick in the relevant boxes where individual Programme Learning Outcomes are being Assessed
Level
Programme Learning Outcomes
Module
Code
Module Title
Core (C),
Compulsory
(COMP), or
Option (O)
Knowledge and
Understanding
LEVEL 8
LEVEL 7
A
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MU4000(L7)
Music Industry
Placement
Core (C)
MU4001(L7)
Music Industry:
Product and
Audience
Core (C)
DZ4001(L7)
Research Design
Core (C)
DZ4002(L7)
Professional Arts
Practice
Core (C)
DZ4003(L7)
Arts Research
Project
Core (C)
DZ5001(L8)
Strategic
Management
Core (C)
DZ5002(L8)
Diagnostic Pilot
Arts Project
Core (C)
DZ5003(L8)
Doctorate Arts
Project
Core (C)
A
2
A
3
A
4
A
5
Subject-Specific Skills
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B11
Thinking Skills
B12
B13 B14 B15 B16
C
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Please Note: any mapping to other external frameworks (for example: professional/ statutory bodies) is included within the Student Handbook.
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