Place emphasis on personal research, giving you the chance to develop your own interests and ideas in a challenging and supportive environment. Academic staff are design specialists, researchers and practitioners who will support you to expand your practice. This is an interdisciplinary design programme which promotes an ethos of social and cultural innovation.

The initial modules are taught to all students in the design faculty (including fashion, graphics, illustration, interior, jewellery and metalwork, interaction, packaging and product) and you focus on gaining a critical understanding of design thinking, theoretical studies, research methods and making practices. In subsequent modules, you will follow your own personal practice, supported by key specialist staff.

You learn through:

• immersive learning alongside peers in a studio environment

• practice-based research

• project work

• individual and group tutorials

• lectures

• seminars

• constructive critical debates