Design
Our design courses combine artistic flair and creativity with teamwork and a business-like, client-focused approach – and our teaching includes all of these strands. Be inspired and expand your talents while we introduce you to essential knowledge, skills and practices through cutting-edge teaching and learning.
Benefit from an individual studio space, a dedicated print room with bookbinding, a media centre that loans cameras and equipment – even video drones, soundproof recording studios, green-screen production studios, Mac and PC labs, a stellar workshop for wood, 3D printing, metalworking and welding, and access to fashion and textiles studios.
| Course title | Qualification | Full-time | Part-time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design | MA | Yes | Yes | View course | |
| Design (with Advanced Practice) | MA | Yes | No | View course | |
| Engineering Design and Manufacture* | MSc | Yes | Yes | View course | |
| Engineering Design and Manufacture (with Advanced Practice)* | MSc | Yes | No | View course | |
| Visual Communication | MA | Yes | Yes | View course | |
| Visual Communication (with Advanced Practice) | MA | Yes | No | View course |
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* Subject to University approval
Quality teaching
At Teesside University you are taught and inspired by doctors, readers and professors – many are active researchers within the field of design. And you benefit from the fact that a number of academic staff and an impressive list of specialist visiting lecturers are creative practitioners, offering professional experience as well as high standards of tuition and guidance. Staff are also involved in research which informs teaching and ensures our standards are abreast of current practice.
Many students stay on to study a postgraduate qualification to enhance their knowledge and skills further. We are constantly refreshing our range of postgraduate courses to meet the needs of industry and employers.
Professional awareness
Each MA programme enables you to explore and innovate in the context of professional awareness. You have opportunities to undertake projects in partnership with professional clients working in the public realm, gaining experience of current business practices. Our students also present their art works and designs in public exhibitions at client-sponsored events.
First-class facilities
Teesside University provides you with an individual studio from the very start, and access to latest facilities with skilled technicians to help you create and innovate.
We have a dedicated print room with bookbinding, a media centre that loans cameras and equipment – even video drones, soundproof recording studios, green-screen production studios, Mac and PC labs, a stellar workshop for wood, 3D printing, laser cutting, metalworking and welding, and access to fashion and textiles studios. All enhanced by excellent technical support.
Research
We offer full-time or part-time research degree opportunities at master of philosophy (MPhil) and doctor of philosophy (PhD) level in a range of subject areas.
Our research interests include:
- contemporary creative practice
- creative publishing and graphic arts
- digital arts, new media and environmental graphics
- fashion and textiles futures
- fashion and textile studies
- home futures and sustainable environments
- cultural theory
- graphic design
- industrial design
- material culture
- people-centred design: social and technical innovation
- product design
- rapid prototyping and manufacture
- service design
- user experience design.
There are close links with the Northern Region Film and Television Archive, the Centre for Local Historical Research and with the postgraduate programmes in history and heritage.
