The Warnock Extended Research Programme forms a key component of Oxford High School’s Sixth Form Programme and complements your A Levels. It is an opportunity for an in-depth study of a chosen topic and offers you the chance to demonstrate intellectual curiosity, independent learning and initiative – all skills that are highly valued by leading Universities in the UK and abroad.
You can choose an area that intrigues you to investigate and produce either a dissertation of about 5000 words or an artefact accompanied with a dissertation between 1000-2000 words (an artefact can be a theatrical play or a poetic anthology, a painting or a sculpture, the creation of a website, the production of a graphic design etc.). You will have a supervisor to give you advice and feedback on your drafts. You will complete your dissertation and relevant paperwork in Year 12 and you will present your project in front of a small and friendly audience in Year 13.
Recent topics have included the challenges of creating a vaccination for T.B, Genghis Khan’s reputation, super materials, women’s rights in the Middle East, the representation of gender in Greek and/or Roman literature, sports and psychology and designing the cities of the future.
The Mary Warnock Extended Research Project
