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The Creative Writing Society gives you the time, space and feedback needed to develop your writing skills in a relaxed and friendly environment. We meet once a week to explore different writing styles and genres, always ensuring we get some good writing down on paper. If you want to deepen your skills, help listen and give feedback to others or just meet nice individuals to share stories with we are willing to provide the place. We also provide biscuits!

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Creative Writing

8th July – 3rd August 2024

This 4-week course offers developing writers a supportive environment in which to further their writing skills in fiction, poetry, and drama. Students have a unique opportunity to develop their own critical analysis by attending Modernism and Contemporary Literature lectures, as well as author-led Masterclasses. SUISS tutors, who are published writers and experienced teachers, lead the students in 3-hour group seminars and individualised mentoring sessions.

In addition, our Creative Writing students have the opportunity to attend private readings by well-known British authors, many of who will be reading at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August.

The Creative Writing course offers:

Workshop Seminars: SUISS tutors lead small group writing seminars catered to students’ writing interests.
Author-led Masterclasses: Prominent contemporary British writers offer students an opportunity to engage in unique discussions and activities.
Lectures: Students attend select Modernism and Contemporary Literature lectures to gain additional perspectives of critical analysis.
Individual Mentoring Sessions: Students receive 30min of individualised mentoring sessions with a SUISS tutor per week.
Publishing Lecture: A Literary Agent identifies key aspects of the publishing industry in an exclusive lecture for the students.
Editorial groups: According to shared interests, students discuss their work with their peers in an informal, interactive environment.
Northern Light : An opportunity to be published in our biennial publication.

Reading List

Creative Writing students attend selected lectures from our Modernism and Contemporary Literature courses. Students are strongly advised to read as many of the texts as possible before arriving in Edinburgh, as time will be limited once the programme is underway. The lectures are pitched high, and lecturers are advised that all students will be familiar with the texts at the time of lecture.

Core texts and lectures for the Creative Writing summer programme, on which the tuition will be based, are listed below.

Essential reading  (in alphabetical order) :

T.S. Eliot,  The Waste Land

Harry Josephine Giles,  Drone

James Joyce,  Dubliners   China Miéville short stories (from  Three Moments of an Explosion )*

Alan Moore,  V for Vendetta Selected imagist poetry*

Ali Smith: selection of short stories*

Virginia Woolf,  Mrs Dalloway 

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Based in the first UNESCO World City of Literature, this one-year, full-time taught Masters programme is tailored towards your practice in either fiction or poetry

There is a strong practical element to the programme, helping you develop your creative skills through workshops, presenting your work for peer discussion, and hearing from guest writers and other professionals on the practicalities of life as a writer.

You’ll also sharpen your critical skills through seminars exploring the particulars of your chosen form and through option courses in literature, helping you move from theoretical considerations to practical applications.

The programme culminates with the publication of ‘From Arthur’s Seat’, an anthology of student work.

Over the course of this programme, you’ll complete a body of creative work that has been rigorously peer reviewed.

Our students go on to careers in a wide variety of fields, including publishing, marketing, arts administration, web and audio book editing, script and ghost writing, and gaming narrative design.

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Creative Writing MSc

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Creative Writing

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Based in the first UNESCO World City of Literature, this one-year, full-time taught Masters programme is tailored towards your practice in either fiction or poetry

The programme culminates with the publication of ‘From Arthur’s Seat’, an anthology of student work.

Over the course of this programme, you’ll complete a body of creative work that has been rigorously peer reviewed.

Our students go on to careers in a wide variety of fields, including publishing, marketing, arts administration, web and audio book editing, script and ghost writing, and gaming narrative design.

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A UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent, in a relevant subject.

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Anglia ruskin university, creative writing phd, creative writing mphil, ma, pg cert creative writing and publishing (12 months), ma, pg cert creative writing and publishing (15 months).

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English Literature

This guide provides a general introduction to Library and information resources for the study of literature in English.

Library resources on creative writing

The Library provides hundreds of books and journals for the study of creative writing. Try the following search by subject in DiscoverEd : or simply click the embedded links to retrieve lists of items on the topic:

Creative writing (Higher education)
Creative writing -- studying and teaching
Fiction -- Technique
Poetry -- Authorship

Selected list of books and journals

The Cambridge introduction to creative writing by David Morley Call Number: Main Library (STANDARD LOAN) - 3rd floor PE1413 Mor. Also online access. ISBN: 9780511567155 Publication Date: 2007
A companion to creative writing by Graeme Harper Call Number: Online access ISBN: 9781118325797 Publication Date: 2013
The Creativity Market : Creative Writing in the 21st Century by Dominique Hecq Call Number: Online access ISBN: 9786613806888 Publication Date: 2012
The handbook of creative writing by Steven Earnshaw Call Number: Main Library (STANDARD LOAN) - 3rd floor PN145 Han. ISBN: 9780748689392 Publication Date: 2014
How to write a poem by John Redmond Call Number: Online access ISBN: 9781405148757 Publication Date: 2006
Journal of writing in creative practice Call Number: Online access Publication Date: 2007 onwards
Researching creative writing by Jen Webb Call Number: Online access ISBN: 9781907076169 Publication Date: 2015
Studying creative writing by Sharon Norris Call Number: Online access ISBN: 9781907076404 Publication Date: 2013
Writing and producing radio dramas by Esta de Fossard Call Number: Online access ISBN: 9788132102021 Publication Date: 2005
The writing centre journal Call Number: Online access Publication Date: 1980 onwards
Writing poetry by W.N. Herbert Call Number: Main Library (STANDARD LOAN) - 3rd floor PN1059.A9 Her. ISBN: 9780415461542 Publication Date: 2010

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Internet resources for creative writing

American poets magazine more... less... One of the most widely distributed poetry magazines featuring a panorama of poems, essays, and more by American poets.
BBC Writers' Room more... less... Tips, interviews, script library.
Center for Digital Storytelling more... less... "Mission Statement: We create spaces for listening to and sharing stories, to help build a just and healthy world. Our public and custom workshops provide individuals and organizations with skills and tools that support self-expression, creative practice, and community building." (from: http://www.storycenter.org/what-we-do/)
English Subject Centre more... less... "This is the website of the former English Subject Centre. Here you will find a wealth of teaching resources produced during the life of the centre covering English literature, language and Creative Writing in predominantly Higher Education contexts". (from the website)
Internet Writing Journal more... less... An online magazine covering literature and writing. The IWJ is home to articles, book reviews, author interviews, literary features and more.
Poets.org more... less... Includes Academy of American Poets https://poets.org/academy-american-poets National Poetry Month https://poets.org/national-poetry-month American Poets Magazine https://poets.org/american-poets-magazine
Voice of the Shuttle -- Creative Writing more... less... With links to general creative writing, creative writing programmes, resources, fiction, poetry, drama, theatre & performance studies.
Web of Stories more... less... "Web of Stories offers you the chance to listen to some of the greatest people of our time telling their life stories". (from the website)
The Writers' Post more... less... THE WRITERS POST is an electronic magazine of literature and literature in translation, published biannually. Its aim is simply to provide the reader with good reading, the writer with a place perhaps more easily accessible to publish his/ her work. The reader is introduced to a magazine where selected pieces of literature by published authors of diverse origin, and new writers as well, are presented. Fine or remarkable writings that non-English language literature produced may be found in the LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION Section. (from the website)

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Academy of American Poets Founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry.
American Literary Translators Association A placee to look for conferences, grants, awards. The site is currently under redevelopment.
Association of Authors' Representatives A professional organisation of literary agents who work with both book authors and playwrights.
The Authors Guild A professional organisation dedicated to supporting the writing life for all working and aspiring authors, and to protecting authors' rights.
AWP - Association of Writers & Writing Programs AWP provides community, opportunities, ideas, news, and advocacy for writers and teachers of writing.
CLMP - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses "Help independent literary publishers thrive to ensure a bivrant, diverse literary landscape." It includes a Directory of Publishers (https://www.clmp.org/readers/directory-of-publishers/). It also has a Programs & Opportunities section for grants and awards.
English Pen The founding centre of PEN International, a worldwide writers’ association with 145 centres in more than 100 countries. It provides three annual literary prizes – the PEN Pinter Prize, the PEN Ackerley Prize and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize.
Pen International "The organisation known today as PEN International began in London, UK, in 1921, simply as PEN....Our name was conceived as an acronym: ‘Poets, Essayists, Novelists’ (later broadened to ‘Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, Novelists’). (from the website)
Scottish Pen "We are the Scottish centre of PEN International, a not-for-profit organisation that champions freedom of expression and literature across borders. We work with a range of writers, campaigners, activists and communities across Scotland and around the world as part of the PEN International network".(from the website)
The Society of Authors The SoA is the UK trade union for all types of writers, illustrators and literary translators, at all stages of their careers.

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Creative Writing MSc

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Based in the first UNESCO World City of Literature, this one-year, full-time taught Masters programme is tailored towards your practice in either fiction or poetry.

The programme culminates with the publication of ‘From Arthur’s Seat’, an anthology of student work.

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Unique is a great way to describe the postgraduate creative writing programme at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland. For a start, we put genre fiction front and centre in our course. If you love science fiction, fantasy, crime or horror, most MFAs and MAs don't want to know - but we embrace great genre writing and people who want to write it. Another unique focus at Edinburgh Napier is comics and graphic novels , which most other programmes ignore. In fact, we love this medium so much we devote an entire module about it, Writing Graphic Fiction. [Good news: no talent for drawing required!] We also specialise in Young Adult fiction , with acclaimed YA author Laura Lam leading a new module on this.

Edinburgh Napier's creative writing MA does not offer a poetry option. We repeat, poetry is not a requirement . There are plenty of other great courses with brilliant poets on the faculty - if you want to study poetry, seek them out. We have had prize-winning poets as students on our programme, but we don't teach or critique poetry.

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There are also no peer review workshops in Creative Writing MA classes at Edinburgh Napier. We repeat, no peer review workshops. This boggles the mind of some people, as such workshops are the dominant teaching method for creative writing pretty much everywhere else. But we don't have them in our classes. Not one! Instead, we set frequent writing assignments and expect you to bring the results to class. You're encouraged to critically self-reflect on your work [with prompts from us], and to share that thinking. You get professional editorial feedback on your writing and your self-reflection skills, delivered masterclass-style in class. And you get six hours of one-to-one mentoring .

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As a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University, you can now earn your MFA – and finish the book you started at Edinburgh Napier – through the Writing Popular Fiction programme at Seton Hill.

Beginning in January 2017, alumni from Edinburgh Napier University can enroll in the Writing Popular Fiction programme at Seton Hill and earn an MFA by taking 34 credits (instead of the usual 54) and attending four residencies (instead of six).

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Creative Industries MSc

Awards: MSc

Study modes: Full-time

Programme website: Creative Industries

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Programme description

An interdisciplinary degree with edinburgh futures institute.

Creative and cultural industries shape how we experience our lives, including the ads and movies we see, the music we listen to and the festivals and performances we attend. They shape our quality of life, generating cultural, social and economic value to individuals, organisations and society. To create this value, creative organisations rely on data to:

generate new opportunities
create new strategies
track the effectiveness of their strategies
persuade others of their value, whether funders, consumers or collaborators

This unique MSc programme brings together cross-disciplinary expertise and knowledge in data analytics, creative thinking, business and law to understand the complex challenges facing the creative industries. It is a bold, innovative programme designed to develop your knowledge and skills for leading the cultural and creative institutions of the future.

You will learn to apply interdisciplinary knowledge within a project team in order to respond to live challenges set by our partner organisations, and you will create and apply knowledge from different areas using data-informed approaches. A strong focus of the programme is on learning to collaborate and work with others as you develop the leadership skills needed to coordinate the diverse specialisms, organisations and individuals needed to deliver creative experiences and products.

Studying with us will help you build professional and leadership skills as you work directly with world-class cultural organisations in the City of Edinburgh. This programme makes excellent use of Edinburgh as a cultural capital and you will benefit from established relationships with organisations in cultural heritage, festivals and advertising.

Postgraduate study at the Edinburgh Futures Institute

This programme is part of an interconnected portfolio of postgraduate study in the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI).

EFI supports interdisciplinary teaching, learning and research that is focussed on complex global and social challenges. Our programmes are taught by academic experts from many different subject areas.

As an EFI student, you will develop creative, critical and data-informed thinking that cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries. You will have the space to think deeply about questions linked to your own passions and professional goals and will develop a project based on an issue that you care about.

As well as knowledge specific to your area of study, studying at Edinburgh Futures Institute will give you the skills and understanding you need to become a creative, confident and critical citizen in a fast-changing world.

These include:

core data skills
data ethics
the ability to interrogate issues of global scope using methods from across disciplines
creative and analytic approaches to knowledge

You can join us regardless of whether you already have skills in the use and application of digital data.

Programme structure

Students on this programme study the following:

Core courses (30 credits) specific to your programme.
Edinburgh Futures Institute core courses (40 credits) which teach the essential, critical and hands-on data skills, enquiry methods, ethical and creative capacities needed to underpin your programme-based studies.
A wide choice of short 10-credit optional courses (50 credits), at least two of which must be on topics related to your programme, with scope to study across the entire portfolio.
A project (taking the form of a 20-credit ‘knowledge integration and project planning’ course, and a 40-credit final project).

This is a full-time one-year programme, based on-campus in Edinburgh so it can benefit from the city’s strong cultural organisations.

Core courses

In addition to the Edinburgh Futures Institute shared core courses, you will take the following core courses for your programme:

Creative Markets teaches the fundamentals of strategy, competitor analysis and business models that enable leaders to create and capture value amidst the demand uncertainty that permeates the creative industries.
Intellectual Property in the Creative Industries examines intellectual property rights in the creative industries to protect intangible assets and identify which rights generate possible revenues and are appropriate for different business models.
Client Consulting project applies knowledge of Creative Markets and Intellectual Property to a client-led challenge with a cultural or creative organisation.

Edinburgh Futures Institute core courses

On our core courses you will work in cross-disciplinary teams with students from other Futures Institute programmes. You will learn to collect, manage and analyse computational datasets, and to use emerging methodologies for mapping and designing the future. You will also learn the fundamentals of data ethics, and how to use creative skills in the analysis and representation of data-informed and qualitative inquiry.

Optional courses

Edinburgh Futures Institute offers a wide range of more than 40 optional courses taught by academic staff from many different discipline areas, including those associated with your programme. The exact courses offered vary from year to year. In 2024-25 the courses associated with your programme may include:

Cities as Creative Sites: Urban Studio
Critical Creative Diversity
Culture, Heritage and Learning Futures
Pitching Your Stories, Services and Products
Strategic Change Leadership for Creative Industries

Optional courses from across the wider portfolio will cover a range of themes and topics, such as:

critical perspectives on how new technologies are changing society
data, programming and research skills that advance the skills taught in the Edinburgh Futures Institute shared core
the causes and consequences of inequalities around the world
how new and rapidly changing technologies and data sources are transforming the future of democracy
what the future of education might look like
how narratives drive the way we understand the world
bringing service design and service management together to build change in a data-driven society

The project

In your final project, you will apply your learning in depth to a domain, issue or concern which drives you. Your final project can be based on your own personal or professional interests, defined by your employer, sponsored by one of the Futures Institute’s industry, government or community partners, or aligned to one of our research programmes.

You will submit your final project as a written piece of work or combine text with other forms – for example, video, visualisation, a digital artefact, performance, or code.

You will identify your project topic relatively early on in the programme, and work on it in parallel with the taught courses. We expect you to take an interdisciplinary approach to your project in order to connect with the creative, data and future-orientated nature of the Futures Institute.

Find out more about compulsory and optional courses

We link to the latest information available. Please note that this may be for a previous academic year and should be considered indicative.

Award	Title	Duration	Study mode
MSc	Creative Industries	1 Year	Full-time

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this programme, you will be able to:

build deep understanding of creative industries and markets, and the critical challenges they face
understand the role of data and data-driven innovation in addressing these challenges and apply data-informed insights to the creative industries
integrate insights from Business and Law to conceptualise innovative business models for the creative industries
work with world-class cultural organisations to apply team-based learning to live challenges
develop leadership, communication, team-working and analytic skills relevant to the creative industries

Career opportunities

The Creative Industries programme provides core knowledge and ability - for example in marketing, digital strategy and consumer and audience engagement - that you will be able to apply to real, live challenges faced by the cultural sector.

It will prepare you to take up leadership and management roles in a variety of creative and cultural sectors such as:

the creative industries
arts management
cultural heritage
cultural tourism

For mid-career professionals, the programme offers the opportunity to expand, deepen and apply knowledge to new contexts, strengthening existing skills and developing new approaches which can be applied in professional work.

The core elements of the programme address the data and higher-order skills we know are important for the future of work, confident and critical citizenship, and a thriving, just society.

Studying at Edinburgh Futures Institute

What does interdisciplinary study mean.

Interdisciplinary study is at the heart of Edinburgh Futures Institute programmes. It means the ability to synthesise and apply knowledge and skills from across different disciplines and is crucial to addressing many current complex challenges and planetary-scale issues.

We support you to develop interdisciplinary perspectives in different ways. For example, our shared core courses draw on diverse disciplines to support you to work creatively and ethically with all kinds of data. Each programme develops interdisciplinary perspectives in the ways most appropriate to their specific domain and focus. And finally – because you have such wide choice in the optional courses you choose to take with us – you will have the flexibility to design your own disciplinary pathway through your studies, integrating your insights and reflecting on their interdisciplinary power through your project-related work.

How you will learn at the Futures Institute

Our approach to teaching puts student experience and choice at its heart and connects global cohorts in new ways.

You will study in teaching spaces and digital learning environments designed to enable shared on-site and online teaching and learning activity. Your classes and contributions will be recorded and livestreamed so that they can be shared – and so you can build a learning community – across modes and time-zones.

Students studying online have a presence in our on-site classrooms (via video, audio and text), and students studying on-campus are able to work with diverse teams located across the globe. All of your courses require significant synchronous engagement in the classroom and significant asynchronous engagement online. While there will be opportunities to engage in some activities asynchronously from different time zones, applicants should be aware of the requirement to join live classes at particular times. Please get in touch with us to discuss your particular circumstances before applying. All students have a presence in the digital spaces where teaching happens – video-based classes, real-time collaboration spaces, live chats, asynchronous forums, shared exhibition and blogging spaces and more.

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Teaching methods include:

expert lectures, both live and livestreamed
data skills and programming workshops online and on-campus
on-site and virtual drop-ins
hybrid seminars
interactive journal clubs
external stakeholder challenges and code-alongs
data visualisation exercises
creative and collaborative whiteboard activities
online discussion

Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) uses a distinctive timetabling model in which the programme core and options courses are delivered over five weeks. Four of these weeks involve asynchronous activities, interactions and tasks. In the middle of the course, an intensive two-day block of synchronous activity is held, building on the early weeks of the course and enabling the class to work together intensively to develop knowledge and skills that support the final weeks of course activity. Shared core courses are taught alternate weeks throughout the semester.

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Entry requirements

These entry requirements are for the 2024/25 academic year and requirements for future academic years may differ. Entry requirements for the 2025/26 academic year will be published on 1 Oct 2024.

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.

Students from China

This degree is Band C.

Postgraduate entry requirements for students from China

International qualifications

Check whether your international qualifications meet our general entry requirements:

Entry requirements by country
English language requirements

Regardless of your nationality or country of residence, you must demonstrate a level of English language competency at a level that will enable you to succeed in your studies.

English language tests

We accept the following English language qualifications at the grades specified:

IELTS Academic: total 7.0 with at least 6.5 in each component. We do not accept IELTS One Skill Retake to meet our English language requirements.
TOEFL-iBT (including Home Edition): total 100 with at least 23 in each component. We do not accept TOEFL MyBest Score to meet our English language requirements.
C1 Advanced ( CAE ) / C2 Proficiency ( CPE ): total 185 with at least 176 in each component.
Trinity ISE : ISE III with passes in all four components.
PTE Academic: total 70 with at least 62 in each component.

Your English language qualification must be no more than three and a half years old from the start date of the programme you are applying to study, unless you are using IELTS , TOEFL, Trinity ISE or PTE , in which case it must be no more than two years old.

Degrees taught and assessed in English

We also accept an undergraduate or postgraduate degree that has been taught and assessed in English in a majority English speaking country, as defined by UK Visas and Immigration:

UKVI list of majority English speaking countries

We also accept a degree that has been taught and assessed in English from a university on our list of approved universities in non-majority English speaking countries (non-MESC).

Approved universities in non-MESC

If you are not a national of a majority English speaking country, then your degree must be no more than five years old* at the beginning of your programme of study. (*Revised 05 March 2024 to extend degree validity to five years.)

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Further information

Postgraduate Admissions Office
Phone: +44 (0)131 650 4086
Contact: [email protected]
Programme Director, Vikki Jones and Giovanni Formilan
Contact: [email protected]
Edinburgh Futures Institute
1 Lauriston Place
University of Edinburgh
Central Campus
Programme: Creative Industries
School: Edinburgh Futures Institute
College: Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Select your programme and preferred start date to begin your application.

MSc Creative Industries - 1 Year (Full-time)

Application deadlines.

Programme start date	Application deadline
9 September 2024	11 July 2024

We operate a number of selection deadlines. We may make a small number of offers on an ongoing basis, but we will hold the majority of applications until the next published selection deadline before deciding which applicants to make offers to.

If we have not made you an offer by a specific selection deadline this means one of two things:

your application has been unsuccessful, in which case we will contact you to let you know, or
your application is still being considered and will be carried forward for consideration in the next selection deadline and we’ll be in touch once a decision is made

If you are applying for funding or will require a visa then we strongly recommend you apply as early as possible.

Deadlines for applicants applying for study in 2024-25 are:

Round	Application deadlines	Decisions by
1	16 November 2023	31 January 2024
2	18 January 2024	28 March 2024
3	04 April 2024	13 June 2024
4	11 July 2024	30 July 2024

How to apply

You must submit one reference with your application.

We will decide which applications to offer places to on the basis of:

educational achievement
professional experience (where relevant)
quality of personal statement

Your personal statement should include why you are interested in studying on this particular programme and – if relevant – how it will support your career development. The

Edinburgh Futures Institute provides a space where students can pursue projects on issues they care about, so it would also be helpful (though not essential) if you could indicate the area on which you would most like to focus during your time in EFI.

Find out more about the general application process for postgraduate programmes:

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