The topic of the master thesis should lie within the domain of Game and Media Technology.
We encourage you to choose a topic that fits your supervisor’s interests and ongoing work closely.
We recommend that you check, in addition to personal websites of individual staff members, the KonJoin system KonJoin UU  for project proposal and research interests of our staff members.
You can also contact a lecturer you know who teaches and/or conducts research in your area of interest and ask them whether they have a graduation project for you.

Prerequisites
To be allowed to start with the thesis project, you must have obtained at least 67,5 EC.
 

Registration
Before starting your master thesis project, you need to fill in a research project application.
You are required to apply for approval of your research project by submitting a request via OSIRIS Student/Osiris Zaak. Please select ‘My Cases’, ‘Start Case’ and then ‘Research Project GSNS’.

Important: in order to apply completely and correctly, you must have discussed the project setup with your intended project supervisor beforehand !
We advise you to study the request form previous to discussing it with your supervisor, or fill it out together, to make sure you obtain all of the information required.
 
You are advised to work full time (i.e. 5 days per week), which means 40 hours per week. But 4 days per week is also allowed. In that case, please note that your project takes 25% more time to finish. Please be aware that this does not allow working on the side for more than one day per week.
External project
You have the possibility to do your thesis project at a company or government institute. In that case, one of the staff members of the department should approve the project and serve as a supervisor. As with all master theses, two supervisors from the department will grade the thesis.
 
The GMT staff will occasionally send calls for internships by e-mail. In case of a project or internship outside of Utrecht University, please make sure you have filled out the 'daily supervisor' section in the research project application form. If an external party hosts you as a student, you also need to provide a Work Place Agreement by Completing the UU GSNS Work Place Agreement. Please discuss possible deviations to the standard contract with the UU Science Internship Project Coordinator.

 
Scope constraints
The topic of the master thesis should lie within the domain of game and media technology. We encourage you to choose a topic that fits your supervisor’s interests and ongoing work closely.
 
Ethics and Privacy Quick Scan 
If your thesis involves human subjects, you must fill in the compulsory Ethics and Privacy Quick Scan, see instructions and forms on https://www.uu.nl/en/research/institute-of-information-and-computing-sciences/ethics-and-privacy .
The corresponding moderator email mentioned in these instructions is gmt-ethics@uu.nl.
 
Body of the work
The MSc thesis is split into two parts: 15 EC (preparation) and 25 EC (execution). This comprises 3 periods of work (including the GMT colloquium), which is about 7.5 months of work.
 
The first part comprises 1 period of full-time work. The student will complete (at least) the following deliverables:

• the MSc research application form in OSIRIS 
• a completed literature research for the project
• a clear (list of) research question(s)
• a skeleton of the thesis
• a time plan for the second part of the thesis
• a description of the research methodology
• a plan for the evaluation of the results/outcome

• perform and complete scientific research according to the predefined plan;
• write a scientific report about this research. You may choose between a regular thesis (plus optional appendix), or a scientific conference/journal paper, plus mandatory appendix;
• give a presentation about the work;
• produce a dissemination (see below).