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For those considering doctoral study and who identify as makers of performance, our information sheet on Winchester's Doctor of Creative Arts: Performing Arts is now available. The DCA is a professional doctorate, focused on practices of making. The content of your study is adapted to your career goals, and focuses primarily on artistic outcomes. This includes poetic and metaphorical means of articulating the ways your work researches and experiments, and makes a contribution to advancing the professional world of performance. This can include the ways in which your work challenges the values of that same professional world. There is a strong component of the early phases of the programme that ensures you are conversant with, and able to take a position within, the various debates and methodological approaches to practice as research, and use these approaches when it serves your trajectory. The DCA is made up of three modular components, which allow you to decide whether full doctoral study is right for you and your practice. After completing Studio 1, you can choose to exit the doctoral pathway with a PGDip; after Studios 1 & 2, you can choose to exit the doctoral pathway with a MProf (Performing Arts) (professional masters in performing arts), or you can move on to complete your doctoral portfolio. If you already hold a good MA, MRes or MFA which explores processes of making in performance (which could include devised work across genres; choreographic work; sound work; syntheses/interdisciplinary projects) and which grounds you in practice as research discourse, you may apply for advanced placement and, if successful, enter the programme directly in Studio 2. You will need to evidence the quality and rigour of your practical work through portfolio. The programme is designed for distance delivery, including internationally, so that you can keep your practice up wherever you live. For the full information sheet, including fee levels, or for an informal conversation about the programme, please contact Yvon Bonenfant off-list on ([log in to unmask]).