The School of the Arts is home to leading international research projects in the creative industries, particularly in response to the significant changes that new technologies are bringing to society. Our staff and students actively engage with the diverse cultural activities London offers, as well as the dynamic digital economy it supports. Our Master’s degrees MSc in Linguistics and AI, MA in Creative Arts and Media, and MA in Digital Media and Global Cultures are designed to equip you with the ethical, critical, and practical skills needed for careers in digital management, communications, technological innovation, and the creative industries.
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Our exciting practice-based Masters degree will equip you with the tools to explore and create new art forms and media. Based in the East End of London, at the thriving heart of the UK’s creative industries, this programme is taught by world-leading academics and practitioners in film, theatre, creative-writing and media. Over the course of your programme, you will take modules that will develop your skills in content creation, writing for creative production, and performance making. You will also have an opportunity to apply your learning to creative industries contexts.
Wide and varied roles within the creative industry. The East End of London, home to the QMUL main campus, is at the heart of the UK’s creative industries, with many start-ups, post-production houses, and galleries.
The MA Digital Media and Global Cultures offers you an in-depth exploration of the rapid developments in the digital world. Leveraging London’s unique position as a leading digital hub and a centre for cultural encounters, this MA programme provides you with a comprehensive understanding of digital media within a global context, and encompasses both anglophone and non-anglophone perspectives. It is designed to equip you with advanced knowledge and skills in digital media and culture in key areas including debates on AI, the economies of platformisation, and online forms of activism. If you are interested in careers in digital management, digital communications, or technological innovation sectors, this programme is ideal for you.
Digital management, digital communications, sectors dealing with digital innovation​.
Artificial intelligence and computational linguistics — the use of computational techniques to process language data — has rapidly become a central technology in the contemporary world. It underpins the social networking revolution, the rapid development of Google and other search engines, and a great deal of modern marketing. Computational linguistics uses methods from Artificial Intelligence and applies them to language. New applications of the results of this field appear every year (e.g. marketing and user data, social and news media, use of AI in the workplace, product reviews, various natural language processing) and it has become central to the expanding technology sector.
This programme will provide you with a solid foundation in these AI methods as applied to language data. Even if you don't have a computational background, but wish to learn or improve your technical skills in this area, with a view to working in careers that use AI, this is the programme for you. It is run by the Department of Linguistics, one of QM's strongest research groups, which has strengths in statistical data processing of language, in computational and experimental techniques relevant to language analysis, in ethical, philosophical and computational theories, and in core areas of linguistics (phonology, syntax, sociolinguistics, semantics, discourse).
Why choose MSc Linguistics & AI at Queen Mary University:
Offered by the top-ranking Linguistics department in the UK (top in research quality in REF2021, and in previous two assessments REF2014, RAE2008).
The only Masters in London that integrates the study of AI with the study of formal, social, text and phonetic variation in real-world language use.
The only conversion Masters at QMUL, offering AI training to students from non-STEM Humanities and Social Sciences backgrounds.
A dedicated module on Applying Linguistics in the Real World, with weekly visits from professionals in different careers (such as marketing, forensic science, tech sector, e.g. Google, Sonos).
A Research Practicum module that allows students to work on real funded research projects or with external partners.
Access to other dynamic computational units at QMUL, including the Computational Linguistics group in EECS and DERI.
Technology industries, marketing, brand consulting, speech therapy, forensic linguistics, banking, journalism – where AI is a required skill.
New Masters programmes are subject to approval.