After a year of academic formation and preliminary training in research methods and relevant craft techniques, students are expected to carry out projects on the basis of field research, and to prepare the presentation of their results in textual or other media as appropriate; the programme offers an effective combination of academic and technical training necessary to bring performance or film-making genres together with various mixes of anthropological and/or applied theatre expertise; the programme employs a pedagogical approach featuring a high degree of peer-group formative assessment and enquiry-based learning; this approach fits particularly well with the reflective, action- and practice-based research typically carried out by film-makers and performers in professional contexts; face-to-face training and supervision is supported by a dedicated blackboard presence; both applied theatre practitioners and anthropologists typically engage with deprived and marginalised populations across a diverse range of social contexts, thereby contributing to the development of social and cultural capital in those contexts, and thus to the remit of the University's 2015 agenda to support the development of a secure, humane, prosperous and sustainable future for human society.