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School of Art and Design Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology University of Derby Markeaton Street Derby DE22 3AW T: +44 (0)1332 593216 E: adtenquiry@derby.ac.uk

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Preparing for your

F u t u re C A R E E R The Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology embraces art, design, humanities, media, and technology, and the many specialised areas within these fields.

We have a longstanding reputation for excellence in all our subjects and a proud history of innovation.

Professor Huw Davies Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology

Our high calibre graduates and alumni have won many national and international awards and have gone on to establish enviable reputations in their chosen professions. We offer a range of distinctive art and design courses:  MA Visual Communication is a studio, practicebased course that will enable you to realise your potential as an innovative practitioner in graphic design, illustration, or animation.  MA Film and Photography brings together various disciplines to provide a unique and exciting opportunity to specialise in still and moving imagery and work creatively and practically across these disciplines.  MA Fashion and Textiles aims to produce professional practitioners in the textiles and fashion industry, giving you the chance to develop your talent and creativity in this area.  MA Fine Art provides opportunities for taught studio-based research, supported by a strong theoretical awareness and practice in the context of contemporary international practice. We have made considerable investment in our physical resources, which include industry standard fashion studios and purpose built facilities

Professor Chris White Head of the School of Art and Design

for textile design and fine art, alongside state of the art technologies such as those in our Mac suite and the print bureau. These are supplemented by our excellent links and partnerships with industry and the professional world. We are members of the Association of Illustrators, British Institute of Professional Photography, and the Design and Art Direction Association. In choosing to undertake postgraduate study and research at Derby, you will be setting out on a new or enhanced career, enabling you to secure the relevant knowledge, skills, abilities, and links with industry to follow your dreams.

CONTENTS Preparing for your future career

Why choose Derby?

Develop your career

Derby: Marvel of the Midlands

International students

All our research has a purpose

Our courses

Visit us

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Why choose

DERBY? We’ve been rated in the top 10% of UK universities for management and quality procedures by government inspectors, so you can be sure that you will be studying a high quality, relevant, and up to date course.

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support whatever you want to do. If you’re already working professionally, we’ll help you to contribute to or curate exhibitions or undertake design work. Or you could use your time at Derby as a break from these pressures, allowing you to gather new material and experiment with your work. All our postgraduate courses are vocationally focused and regularly updated to make sure that you learn the latest industry thinking.

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research feeds directly into society and the cultural and artistic landscape. It also informs the curriculum and plays a major role in supporting and enriching what we teach our students.

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academics and scholars are engaged with real world issues. With substantial experience in the creative industries, they continue to investigate and discover more about their subjects and provide real solutions to business.

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e’ll help and support you throughout W your course. From your initial enquiry right through to graduation, we will give you the advice, guidance, and direction you need to reach your potential.

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have an established track record in art and design, and links with industry across the world. We have developed artists and designers professionally over many years by establishing studio practice at the heart of our courses and working with practising contemporary art practitioners.

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staff are professional designers, artists, and visual communicators. They work professionally on commissioned research, and have been rated as researchers of national and international significance.

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DEVELOP your career

If you’re taking a course to improve your career prospects, Derby is a great place to start: our courses focus on getting you where you want to be.

Support and guidance

Start your own business

If you’re not already working, our Student Employment Agency can help you to find relevant part time work to build up your experience. And you can use our Career Development Centre while you’re here and for up to three years after you graduate.

Banks Mill is the University’s incubation unit for business start-ups in the creative industries. It offers you:  subsidised rent  business support  one-to-one mentoring  short term workspace, available from one week to three months.

Our careers advisers will help you:  plan your career  research your options  improve the skills needed for that dream job or a promotion  find vacancies for placements or a graduate job  improve your employability skills by working with a mentor.

If you don’t need office space, just a registered business address and meeting facilities, you can take advantage of our virtual office services. Find out more banks-mill.evolvederby.co.uk

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D E R B Y: Marvel of the Midlands The Independent

With good job prospects, an affordable standard of living, and a resilient economy, Derby is a great city to make your home when you graduate. Whatever you want from life, you’re sure to find it here. With the Peak District National Park and the National Forest on our doorstep, you can have the best of both worlds – the cosmopolitan bustle of the city and the peace and quiet of beautiful countryside. And, in such a vibrant community, you will find that Derby is a great place to network with potential employers and fellow professionals. The city offers an exciting cultural scene. It’s home to a regional dance centre and orchestra, 36 cinema screens, theatres, art galleries, and a UNESCO World Heritage site at Derwent Valley Mills. QUAD is Derby’s newest contemporary arts centre, showcasing visual arts, film, and media. As well as hosting exhibitions from international artists – it was home to the first BFI Mediatheque outside London – its facilities and services connect people and businesses, creating opportunities for entertainment, employment, and education. Then there’s Déda, the dance-focused arts venue that houses performance spaces and professionally equipped dance studios. And, of course, our own Derby Theatre, home to top-rated touring shows and providing an inspirational learning environment for our students. Hailed as ‘the city of festivals’ by the Financial Times, Derby hosts the FORMAT International Photography Festival, Derby

Festé, iD film festival, Derby Jazz Festival, the UK’s largest free outdoor classical concert, and its own renowned Food and Drink Festival, held in the spectacular grounds of historic Elvaston Castle. For shopping, the city’s blend of modern and traditional charm has something for everyone: quirky shops and pavement cafés in the Cathedral Quarter, a modern shopping mall – Westfield Derby, high street brands in St Peters Quarter and the bustling Eagle Market. There are over 100 cafés, bars, pubs, and restaurants, so whether you want a quiet drink in ‘the real ale capital of the world’ (Lonely Planet), a night out watching sport on the big screen, or cocktails in fashionable bars, you’ll find it here. We’re a diverse multicultural community, with at least 182 nationalities and 71 languages, and that’s reflected in the vast array of cuisines available, from authentic Far East to traditional English fare. Getting around is easy. The Unibus links the city centre, railway station, hospital, and all our sites and halls. It runs every ten minutes and student fares are subsidised. If you live further afield, you can get a train to Derby station or catch the Red Arrow bus between Derby and Nottingham. There are 35 trains to London St Pancras International from Derby every weekday – a 90-minute journey, so a day trip to the capital is definitely on the cards.

Arts are good for the city… A healthy, wealthy arts community is vital. John Forkin, Director of Marketing Derby

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I N T E R N AT I O N A L students

A dedicated International Student Centre

Choosing to study overseas is a big decision, but don’t worry, you won’t be on your own. We have around 1,000 international students from about 120 countries worldwide, and links with colleges and universities in Asia, the USA, Africa, and Europe.

We pride ourselves on offering an exceptional level of friendly, practical support to international students. We will support you from the moment you start thinking about which course to choose, right through to your graduation – for help and advice, just ask.

Events and local agents in your country We have a dedicated team of international officers who attend a number of overseas education exhibitions and visit many countries throughout the year. They can help you with your application and issue on the spot offers.

Improving your English If English is not your first language and you want to improve your skills, you can take one of our English language courses to help when you start your degree. We can also help with your English throughout your course. Our International Student Centre runs informal conversational groups, which will help you to improve your English and meet other international students.

Entry requirements You will usually need a qualification equivalent to a UK undergraduate degree (lower second or above).

For MPhil and PhD programmes, we normally expect you to have a first or second class honours degree, a masters degree from a UK university or qualifications that we consider to be equivalent. For more information go to www.derby. ac.uk/research/degrees/apply

You may need a Certificate of Good Conduct If you’re from outside the UK, you may also need to provide us with a Certificate of Good Conduct from the country or countries you have been living in since the age of ten.

Course fees For more information go to www.derby.ac.uk/international/ events-in-your-country We have agents and representative offices in many countries. They can help and support you during the application process. To find an overseas agent go to www.derby.ac.uk/international/ overseas-agents

Helping you to settle in Our welcome programme for international students takes place a week before the UK students arrive. You can take part in social and cultural activities, such as a visit to Derby or a tour of our Multi-Faith Centre. During the week you will receive lots of useful information, make new friends, start to find your way around and, most importantly, get answers to all your questions. You can even join us on free trips to London and elsewhere. One of our current students will help you to settle in. We offer a free airport pick-up from several airports around the UK. For more information go to www.derby.ac.uk/international

For equivalent qualifications from your country go to www.derby.ac.uk/international/ applying

You will also need an English language qualification We accept all UK Border Agency approved tests. You will usually need at least:  IELTS 6.0  TOEFL 80 (internet based)  International GCE O Level English Language grade C  International GCSE English or English as a second language grade C  PTE score of 53. We also accept high school English qualifications from some countries.

Our course fees for international students studying postgraduate art and design courses for 2013/2014 are £10,760. If you pay your fees in full before you enrol you will qualify for a discount of £500 (not available to research students). For the most up to date information on fees please visit our website.

Scholarships We have some merit based £1,000 scholarships available to all international students (including research students). For more information go to www.derby.ac.uk/international/ fees-and-scholarships

For more information go to www.derby.ac.uk/international/ applying The new route PhD is intended for recently qualified graduates with good honours degrees who are keen to progress immediately to a research experience in their preparations for a career in which the ability to undertake research will play a key role.

› Contact us International Enquiries T: +44 (0)1332 591360 E: international@derby.ac.uk

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All our

RESEARCH has a purpose

At Derby, research plays a major role in supporting teaching and directly helps organisations to solve real world issues. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because we believe applied research is an essential feature of a university like ours. Research in art and design looks at the shifting boundaries and new relationships between traditional arts disciplines and those created with new technologies.

Digital and Material Arts Research Centre We explore the creative potential of hybrid forms made possible by digitalisation, and are concerned to develop theoretical and academic understandings capable of keeping pace with and informing technological developments. We are developing collaborative practice with the creative industries associated with our activities. Find out more www.derby.ac.uk/research

Design and Visual Communication Research Group This group embraces all areas of academic activity in design that share a common ethos relating to the study, analysis, and creative development of text and image, digital design applications, apparel, texture and fabrics, trends, and corporate and body image. Our projects address the way design can contribute to the development of a prosperous, resilient, sustainable society. Our current focus is on physical publication in the contemporary age, exploring traditional meets digital and concrete meets virtual. Our uniting goal of socially responsible design is gathering major significance as society becomes more aware of the need to build and design spaces, products, information, and artefacts that will foster a more cohesive and inclusive society. These objectives tie in to all our teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Find out more www.derby.ac.uk/research

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Our

RESEARCH

and public ENGAGEMENT Chris White works with cross-disciplinary researchers in theatre design and scenography, performance, virtual reality, visualisations, online and real-time environments, games and animation, web applications and design, film making and television, and interactive and immersive technologies.

Professor White has published a series of books including Technical Theatre (Heineman), Computer Aided Design for Theatre Designers (Focal Press), Modes of Spectating (Intellect), and Directors and Designers (Intellect). She is Professor of Art and Design, Head of the School of Art and Design, and Assistant Dean for the Faculty. She is one of the founding editors of the journal Scene, which explores all aspects of design contexts for live and recorded performance, paying special attention to the shaping of artistic vision, aesthetic sophistication, critical thinking, and craft. Recent projects include:  Immersive and Narrative Driven Virtual Reality Environments and the Sustainable Use of New Technologies  Object Theatre and Puppetry  Mobile Film and User Generated Content  Digital Animation of Digital Cultures – the Cultural Environment

 Voice-operated communication with intelligent lighting in association with Whitelight  Arts, Health and Wellbeing – the Healing Environment. Chris has exhibited and curated for the Society of British Theatre Designers and Prague Quadrennial, and is a programme committee member for the European Library of Artistic Performance 2012.

Professor John Goto

Jane Stanton

Sebastian Blackie

Professor Goto is an internationally renowned photo-digital artist. His UK exhibitions have included solo shows at Tate Britain, the National Portrait Gallery, British Academy, and Photographers’ Gallery in London.

Illustrator and artist Jane Stanton’s interest in capturing the human figure in action has led her to work with some of the UK’s finest sportsmen and women.

Sebastian’s research is concerned with the new imperatives that the digital has offered sensual craft-based ceramic practice. He is particularly interested in ceramics and landscape and has worked with a number of contested sites such as Huntingdon Life Science and Molesworth Air Base. This work has been shown at Wolfson College Oxford, Collect in the Saatchi Gallery in London, and at SOFA New York and Chicago. A current landscape project is being shown at the 16th-century Northamptonshire hunting lodge, Lyveden New Bield, and Watford Gap services, after which it will tour to Sydney, Australia.

He recently exhibited at the Dominique Fiat Gallery in Paris, and previously in Sint-Michielsgestel in Holland for the Elders Project with his work Elsewhere: Idyll and Friction in the Landscape. He recently curated An Uncommon Past, a two-week exhibition of photodigital and video works by academics and students from the University of Derby and the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (SCFAI), held at the SCFAI in Chongqing, China. As a professional artist John is represented by Galerie f5.6, Munich; Gallery On, Seoul; and Galerie Dominique Fiat in Paris.

Jane has previously drawn boxers at the London gym of late manager/trainer Terry Lawless, including heavyweights Frank Bruno and Gary Mason. She has also drawn players at Derbyshire County Cricket Club and the Pakistani cricket team. Her latest project on cycling (working title: The Human as Engine – A Visual Examination of the National Obsession with Cycling and the Bicycle) is apt nationally, with the British team’s success at the 2012 London Olympics, and for Derby itself, where a new arena and cycling velodrome will open in summer 2014. Jane said: “Sport is interesting to depict for an artist because it is the human figure in action, tested to its limit. It also requires a lot of patience and observation to capture the essence of it, as the activity often passes by so quickly.”

Other projects include a catalogue essay for the retrospective exhibition of the eminent potter, editor, and author Emmanuel Cooper (due to tour to Derby in 2014), and an Arts Council funded performance at Port Eliot of paper kilns floating on the Tamar estuary. Future projects include researching into the landscape of the 19th-century English poet John Clare.

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Rhiannon Williams

David Bryson

Dr Kate Wells

Rhiannon Williams is Reader in Textile Culture and her research interests focus on the integration of theory into practice. She has exhibited internationally, presented papers, and published in academic journals and books. In 2013 she was nominated to represent the UK at the 14th International Triennial of Tapestry at the Central Museum of Textiles in Lodz, Poland.

Identifying individuals using tattoos has been an established part of forensic science practice for some time, but these can be altered with lasers, surgery, or additional tattoos.

Dr Wells’ work concerns the metamorphosis of tactile textiles by pushing the boundaries of design using different colouration methods, unusual finishes, and the creation of 3D-forms to create unique patterning and textural qualities within a material.

Critical Cloth is a body of textile art and essays that has developed over the last ten years to form an ongoing critique of consumer culture. Handstitched paper patchworks play with the possibility of ‘intellectual sewing’: Rhiannon sews with paper products extracted from day-to-day living: lottery tickets, newspaper reports, greetings cards, administrative paperwork, and pages from Marcel Proust’s epic novel A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. Rhiannon takes an interdisciplinary approach to research and currently employs methods associated with literary criticism and public history to explore possibilities for textile practice.

David Bryson is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Photography and Forensic Science, specialising in Forensic Imaging. He has researched a method using digital imaging, rather than traditional film, to take infra-red photographs of tattoos to determine whether it is an original or has been covered by an additional tattoo. Further work is being undertaken to look at the criteria that lead to tattoos being visible or invisible to infra-red. This involves looking at three different aspects of tattoos: the effect of different types of cover-up tattooing or tattoo removal by surgery or laser, differentiation of ink types, and the depth of penetration. The work has been disseminated through the Fingerprint Society, National Police Improvement Agency, and the British Association for Human Identification.

Our courses

Dr Wells is a Senior Lecturer in Fashion and Textiles; one of her major objectives is uniting hand-techniques with industrial technology to create unique, exciting textiles and products. Sustainability is a key issue, as is the methodology behind Slow Textiles and Slow Craft. Kate is a world expert in printed textile design, colouration, and fabric manipulation, with extensive knowledge of textile design for fashion and interiors, its technology and manufacture. Her work has been exhibited internationally, with textile pieces in the Craft Council of Ireland RDS Permanent Collection and BlindArt Permanent Collection at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. Her interest in the potential healing properties of natural dyes has evolved from working with dyes indigenous to the UK. This research was presented at the Association of International Colour Congress 2013.

MA Visual Communication

MA Fashion and Textiles

MA Film and Photography

MA Fine Art

MPhil or PhD Art and Design

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MA Visual Communication

Essential Information Location Derby Campus, Markeaton Street Duration One year full time or two to three years part time Start dates September or January

About the course

Course details

If you have a passion for visual communication, this practical, studio-based course will enable you to realise your potential as an innovative practitioner in graphic design, illustration, or animation.

Postgraduate Certificate During this stage you will explore contemporary debates and design experimentation, as well as appraising your practice strengths and potential.

You will study these modules: You will explore the exciting and rapidly evolving area of visual communication, including the latest developments in contemporary communication arts practice in publishing, branding, web design, mobile technologies, and screenbased moving images. You will complete an in-depth, challenging and original creative project determined by your area of practice, which will give you an individual and advantageous view of the creative freelance and entrepreneurial world, making you a highly employable professional. Our lecturers are high level graphic designers, illustrators, animators, or web designers, working professionally and engaged in research through the Design and Visual Communication Research Group. You will be taught in small study groups, with individual tutorial support alongside group activities, where you can discuss, debate, and share your thinking with like-minded creatives who will become part of an invaluable network of contacts for the future.

Our dynamic, well-equipped visual communication studio has excellent, state of the art digital equipment, a print-making workshop, digital print bureau, and an extensive specialist art and design library. When you’ve completed this course you could move on to a career in areas such as design, consultancy, illustration, animation, production, media, web design, publishing or computer games, or work as an exhibiting artist or teacher. Alternatively, you could continue your studies to PhD level.

The MA in Visual Communication has allowed me to create unique design responses in my area of interest within graphic design. Through the course I have learnt to apply visual theory and methodologies to support and develop my practice. Ben Skinner

Personal Practice and Methodologies During this double module you will actively explore, critically review, and develop your personal practice and methodologies. You will delve further into your interests, philosophical concerns, and ethical stance as a designer and consider your practice from sociological, philosophical, commercial, professional, ecological, and cultural perspectives. Visual Culture: Debates The module takes as its starting point selected academic texts, which will be used for initiating debate. Through them, you will stimulate and expand your knowledge and understanding of visual culture.

The MA in Visual Communication has been a great experience. There is a very good balance of research and practical work which has helped my development as an illustrator. Luke Durkie

Dissertation You will plan a personal programme of research on a negotiated topic relevant to your personal practice. Your topic will be carefully selected and honed to ensure that it successfully informs your project. The individual methodologies you develop during this module will inform your practice based final project. You will develop a coherent argument, informed by your own research, which will drive the structure and logic of your dissertation.

MA This process of critical scrutiny and debate will provide you with a platform for developing your scholarly understanding of concepts such as ideology, identity, ethics, and aesthetics, and an appreciation of how these might be associated with issues relating to gender, globalisation, sustainability, taste, and consumer culture. This module will encourage you to examine your own practice in relation to the ideas and contrasting theories you have studied.

Postgraduate Diploma This stage will see you developing a major in-depth personal project and research for a supporting dissertation.

You will study these modules: Concept This double module is the first phase of your masters practice project. It covers a significant period of time in which you will extensively research and explore your personal area of focus in your practice. You will conceive, explore, formulate, and propose a considered masters project plan, which you will carry out during the final Realisation module. You will be assigned a supervisor to support you throughout the module.

This stage involves the realisation, testing, and evaluation of your masters practice project and related dissertation.

You will study this module: Realisation This triple module is the culmination of your masters practice project. Through it, you will realise the practice concept that you formulated, researched, and developed during the Concept module, and will create an extensive body of highly developed practice in response to the challenges you set yourself. You will work with independent scholarship and with an enquiring and questioning approach to test, analyse, and critically evaluate your work throughout the process of concluding your masters study.

Entry requirements An undergraduate degree (at least second class) in a related subject, or equivalent. After you have submitted your application we’ll ask you for a digital portfolio and a written statement describing your practice and ambitions. You may also meet with the programme leader to discuss your portfolio in person Fees 2013/2014 fees for UK/EU students are £495 per 20-credit module. You will study the equivalent of nine 20-credit modules in total. For the most up to date information on fees please visit our website How to apply www.derby.ac.uk/applyonline International students Please see page 9 for further details

The programme will culminate in a degree show exhibition to promote and disseminate your work.

› Contact us Tracy Tomlinson T: +44 (0)1332 593216 E: adtenquiry@derby.ac.uk

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S t ud ent p ro f ile Leigh-Anne Harrison MA Visual Communication and Graphic Design

I ultimately want to go into teaching and the masters qualification has increased my subject knowledge and skills to a higher level.

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Having studied the BA (Hons) Visual Communication at Derby, I decided to further my education to postgraduate level because the tutors are just fantastic. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had the same dissertation tutor from year one. The staff leave the door open for you to experiment. For my project I am looking at branding and packaging, analysing what is already out there to make my own product as different as I can within a highly competitive market. By working in a design agency while doing the MA, I have the chance to really think about the time I spend on each project. You have to work at a fast pace within the industry and that is reflected in the way I approach my work.

I ultimately want to go into teaching and the masters qualification takes my standards higher than those of people who are just coming out of university with a BA. The University of Derby has really excellent equipment. The Macs are fantastic, always up to date on the software. We also take full advantage of the library, where the staff are so helpful. With so many varied modules, you have the chance to create a portfolio that is very diverse and develops your techniques in different ways. You can go from screen printing to photography, then merge them together to create something utterly unique. You have to be highly motivated to succeed. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t join the course half-heartedly: you have to really want it and be all for it.

With so many varied modules, you have the chance to create a portfolio that is very diverse and develops your techniques in different ways.

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MA Fashion and Textiles

Essential Information Location Derby Campus, Markeaton Street Duration One year full time study or two to three years part time Start dates September or January

About the course

Course details

This innovative and progressive course will give you the opportunity to develop your creative, technical, and critical skills in fashion and textile design, while extending your practice in a conceptual and professional context.

Postgraduate Certificate

During this stage you will explore contemporary debates and experimentation, as well as appraising your practice strengths and potential.

You will study these modules: The course combines intensive, studio-based projects with design research. As well as furthering your understanding and working knowledge of the techniques and processes specific to your chosen field of fashion and textile design, you will also learn to consider your design practice in terms of the technological, social, critical, and ecological issues that influence fashion and textile design, while extending your understanding of business and entrepreneurship through industry briefs and external projects. You will have the opportunity to develop advanced research skills and explore issues related to design practice, including new technology, globalisation, and sustainability. This will be informed by your work with academics, practitioners, and experts in the field of fashion design and textile design. We use a broad range of teaching and learning strategies, including lectures, seminars, and studio practice. You will take part in presentations, group activities, study groups, and individual tutorials to discuss, debate, and critique your work alongside your peers.

You will work in our specialist workshops that include digital print and CAD facilities, knit, weave and print equipment, fashion sewing and patternmaking resources, and an extensive specialist art and design library. Our teaching staff are active in professional practice, research, and scholarship and are members of research groups covering digital and material arts and sustainable art and design. When you have completed your course you will be able to position yourself for a career in design for fashion, textiles, or related product areas, such as knitwear, performance sportswear or smart textiles for apparel, and other uses such as interior design. Alternatively, you could further your studies through one of our MPhil or PhD programmes.

Personal Practice and Methodologies During this double module you will explore, critically review, and develop your personal practice and methodologies. By examining your interests, philosophical concerns, and ethical stance as a designer, you will develop a sophisticated knowledge of fashion and/or textile design as a cultural entity and its significance to society. Visual Culture: Debates The module takes as its starting point selected academic texts, which will be used for initiating debate. Through them, you will stimulate and expand your knowledge and understanding of visual culture. This process of critical scrutiny and debate will provide you with a platform for developing your scholarly understanding of concepts such as ideology, identity, ethics, and aesthetics, and an appreciation of how these might be associated with issues relating to gender, globalisation, sustainability, taste, and consumer culture. This module will encourage you to examine your own practice in relation to the ideas and contrasting theories you have studied.

Postgraduate Diploma This stage will see you developing a major in-depth personal project and research for a supporting dissertation.

How to apply www.derby.ac.uk/applyonline International students Please see page 9 for further details

You will study these modules:

Concept This double module represents the concept phase of the body of work that will form your masters practice project. You will extensively research and explore your individual area of focus in your practice.

This stage involves the realisation, testing, and evaluation of your masters practice project and related dissertation.

Dissertation You will plan a personal programme of research on a negotiated topic relevant to your personal practice. Your topic will be carefully selected and honed to ensure that it successfully informs your practice. The individual methodologies you develop during this module will inform your practice based final project. You will develop a coherent argument, informed by your research, which will drive the structure and logic of your dissertation.

You will study this module: Realisation This triple module is the culmination of your masters practice project. It will enable you to realise the practice concept that you defined and researched during the Concept module. You will work with independent scholarship and with an enquiring and questioning approach to test, analyse, and critically evaluate your work throughout the process of concluding your masters study.

› Contact us Tracy Tomlinson T: +44 (0)1332 593216 E: adtenquiry@derby.ac.uk

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MA Film and Photography

Essential Information Location Derby Campus, Markeaton Street Duration One year full time or two to three years part time Start dates September or January

About the course

Course details

This course brings together various lens-based disciplines to provide you with a unique and exciting opportunity if you want to specialise in still and moving imagery and work creatively and practically across disciplines. Our aim is that you will become more versatile and creative in applying your knowledge and practice in the field.

Postgraduate Certificate

The course integrates theory and practice for both photographic and film practice to encourage original thinking and individuality within a lively, challenging community of practitioners. We have a long tradition of teaching both photography and film. Our academic team share a wide range of backgrounds and practices, including analogue photography and digital imaging (still and moving), film making and script writing, fine art (painting and installation), history, and theory. Their combined skills and experience mean this is a genuinely interdisciplinary course. Our equipment centre offers both digital and analogue equipment, encouraging you to develop a wide range of skills and enabling you to determine your own critical and creative practice. You will develop and reflect on your practice, with each stage building on the previous one. You will engage with the temporal and spatial significance of photography and film and be supported through lectures, seminars, workshops, and tutorials.

You will also be building a network of professional contacts through museums and galleries that are relevant to your practice, such as the Derby multimedia centre QUAD, which hosts the renowned FORMAT International Photography Festival.

During this stage you will explore contemporary debates and respond critically to visual and written materials, while also reflecting on your own work.

You will study these modules:

Postgraduate Diploma

Art in Theory This module will extend your knowledge and understanding of international contemporary fine art through an exploration of recent critical and theoretical debates in the field. It will help you to identify and interrogate your aims and methods for producing and disseminating art by familiarising you with the history and historiography of contemporary art. You will simultaneously enhance your selfawareness as a practitioner of art and develop the theoretical knowledge needed for your independent research project, which is undertaken during the Critical Study module. You will develop research and study skills and an understanding of scholarly conventions and ethical issues. Assessment is by an oral presentation and response to questions (40%) and a revised written and illustrated version of your presentation of approximately 1,500 words (60%).

This stage will see you preparing for the production of a major practical project through stimulating critical debate and reflection.

Reflective Processes in the Visual Arts This double module introduces you to models of reflective and critical thinking. You will position your work in the context of contemporary practice, ideas, and critical debate, engaging with a process of re-evaluation through both practical and written work.

You will study these modules: Negotiated Study This double module will help you develop the experience, and practical and research skills and methodologies you need to prepare for your final Independent Scholarship module at the MA stage. Critical Study You will undertake a critical study of your practice as an emerging artist in relation to the international context of contemporary art. This module will help you extend your knowledge and understanding of art and art theory to an advanced level through scholarly research and production of an extended essay. Situating your practice in the context of artists who share similar preoccupations and within the critical discourses that have interpreted and evaluated such work will enable you to articulate what is original and distinct about your own practice. You will build on knowledge acquired in the Art in Theory module and engage critically with the ideas of cultural authorities – artists, critics, curators, theorists, historians, philosophers, and so on – in order to explain, justify, and critique the aims and methods of your practice.

We will support you in developing research methodologies and research-gathering strategies appropriate to masters level. Study of this module will help you to acquire the language and skills needed to locate and explain your practice in the professional art world.

MA This stage involves the demonstration of your independent scholarship, realisation and construction of practical work, and reflection on your own practice.

Fees 2013/2014 fees for UK/EU students are £495 per 20-credit module. You will study the equivalent of nine 20-credit modules in total. For the most up to date information on fees please visit our website How to apply www.derby.ac.uk/applyonline International students Please see page 9 for further details

You will study this module: Independent Scholarship and Critical Reflection During this triple module you will produce a significant and mature body of practical creative work that demonstrates a realisation of your individual practice and its location within the award you have chosen. This module is an opportunity for you to demonstrate your intellectual and critical awareness, deep engagement with the subject, and an appropriate application of creativity and imagination to the project.

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MA Fine Art

Essential Information Location Derby Campus, Britannia Mill Studios Duration One year full time or two to three years part time Start dates September or January

About the course

Course details

This is an exciting, challenging, and rigorous course that addresses the multifaceted needs of today’s visual artist. We teach using a mixture of seminars, tutorials, peer reviews, and guest lectures in a well-equipped studio environment that facilitates and encourages creative enquiry, supported by a strong theoretical awareness of contemporary practice.

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Throughout the course, you will critically reflect on your personal practice, develop your awareness of the relationship artists have with national and international cultural industries, curate exhibitions, and consider the public reception for both general and specialist audiences. We will nurture your independent learning and engagement with scholarship, which may lead to further study at MPhil or PhD level. You will explore complex issues both systematically and creatively, making sound conceptual judgements and communicating your ideas clearly to specialist and non-specialist audiences. We will encourage you to demonstrate self-direction and originality in tackling and solving problems and to act autonomously in planning and implementing tasks at a professional level. You will also continue to advance your knowledge and understanding and develop new skills to a high level. Contemporary fine art practice embraces a wide and diverse spectrum of activity and our team have expertise in the areas of painting, sculpture, photography, film and video, installation work, environmental art, public art, performance, textual work, artists’ books, curatorship, and exhibition organisation.

We also have expertise in critical theory, art history, philosophy of art, art criticism, and journalism. All members of the teaching staff are practising artists, writers, or theorists and members of research groups within the School. Represented on the team are a Reader in Fine Art and a Reader in the History and Theory of Art. Several members have experience of supervising PhD students, while others are external examiners for other UK art and design institutions. Many have successfully bid for research funding, enabling the continuation of personal research endeavours, as well as projects that feed back into the curriculum to enhance the student experience. The research groups for Digital and Material Arts and Design and Visual Communications will provide you with opportunities to hear about the latest research conducted by academics in the School of Art and Design. You will also have the opportunity to participate in study visits to regional and national museums and galleries, exhibitions, symposia, and conferences.

During this stage you will explore contemporary debates in the field of fine art and enhance your self-awareness as a practitioner.

You will study these modules: Art in Theory This module will extend your knowledge and understanding of international contemporary fine art through an exploration of recent critical and theoretical debates in the field. It will help you to identify and interrogate your aims and methods for producing and disseminating art by familiarising you with the history and historiography of contemporary art. You will simultaneously enhance your self-awareness as a practitioner of art and develop the theoretical knowledge needed for your independent research project, which is undertaken during the Critical Study module. You will develop research and study skills and an understanding of scholarly conventions and ethical issues. Assessment is by an oral presentation and response to questions (40%) and a revised written and illustrated version of your presentation of approximately 1,500 words (60%). Reflective Processes in the Visual Arts This double module introduces you to models of reflective and critical thinking. You are required to situate your own work within the context of contemporary practice, ideas, and critical debates. You will engage in a process of re-evaluation of your previous output through both practical and written work. The proposed direction of your future work will be described in relation to this critical process. The aesthetic, technical, and formal qualities of artworks will be considered as part of the

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critical process. Assessment is by seminar presentation and 1,500-word written account (40%), and the presentation of a practical body of work (60%).

Postgraduate Diploma This stage sees you undertaking a substantial evaluation of your practice in context, as well as preparing for the Independent Scholarship module by refining your critical and research skills.

You will study these modules: Critical Study You will undertake a critical study of your practice as an emerging artist in relation to the international context of contemporary art. This module will help you extend your knowledge and understanding of art and art theory to an advanced level through scholarly research and production of an extended essay.

Situating your practice in the context of artists who share similar preoccupations and within the critical discourses that have interpreted and evaluated such work will enable you to articulate what is original and distinct about your own practice. You will build on knowledge acquired in the Art in Theory module and engage critically with the ideas of cultural authorities – artists, critics, curators, theorists, historians, philosophers, and so on – in order to explain, justify, and critique the aims and methods of your practice. We will support you in developing research methodologies and research-gathering strategies appropriate to masters level. Study of this module will help you to acquire the language and skills needed to locate and explain your practice in the professional art world. You will also

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MA Fine Art

S tu d e n t p r o f ile Sam Ruth MA Fine Art

Over the last 25 years I have seen a tremendous improvement in the city of Derby. It has a lovely atmosphere. develop research and study skills and an understanding of scholarly conventions and ethical issues. Assessment is by an essay proposal and annotated bibliography of approximately 1,000 words (20%) and an illustrated essay of approximately 3,500 words (80%). Negotiated Study During this double module you will have the opportunity to acquire the experience as well as the practical and research skills and methodologies needed to prepare for the final Independent Scholarship module. For example, you will learn how to plan and manage your work, hone your research skills, and cultivate a range of creative skills appropriate to the project. You will negotiate a project topic and be able to give reasons for your choice, explaining how it will develop your skills and interests and how it is situated within contemporary fine art practice. You will also produce a written document in a form that supports your practical project.

MA This final module culminates in your production of a mature and sustained body of professional work, and your evaluation of the practice of a contemporary practitioner.

You will study this module: Independent Scholarship and Critical Reflection Coming at the end of the course, this triple module offers you the opportunity to develop a negotiated self-determined project of appropriate depth for masters

level study. You will use the practical and research skills you developed during earlier modules to produce a coherent and sustained body of professional, high quality work. You will also evaluate the public presentation of work by a contemporary artist in the form of an exhibition, book, website, installation, or other appropriate output. Assessment is by a critical analysis of your practice (30%) and a resolved body of practical work (70%).

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I studied the BA (Hons) Fine Art at Derby and thoroughly enjoyed it, so I decided to do the MA because I wanted to explore the subject in even more depth. I really enjoy being outside and being part of nature so I am focusing on that for my course, looking specifically at flowers as an inspiration. It’s great to respond artistically to the colour they bring to the environment. As part of the course, we have guest speakers specialising in areas ranging from fine art to photography and from craft to textiles. I always find these events give me new ideas to explore within my own work.

Since I have been at the University, the library has undergone an extensive refurbishment and I’ve found it to be excellent. I am able to use the catalogue to look at the books available in the library, order them from home, and collect them when I’m ready. Over the last 25 years, I have seen a tremendous improvement in the city of Derby. It has a lovely atmosphere, with attractions like QUAD and the Derby Museum and Art Gallery. It is a nice city to live in. If you are interested in studying at the University of Derby, I would advise you to come in and meet the tutors. They are always so welcoming.

Assessment is by a fully resolved body of work/practice project (70%) and a document that situates your practice through the optional element of the module (30%).

The range of guest lectures gives me new ideas to explore within my own work.

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MPhil or PhD Art and Design

Essential Information Location Derby Campus, Markeaton Street Duration The MPhil is studied over two years. You can study the traditional route PhD for three years (full time) or six years (part time). The new route PhD is studied over four years (full time)

About the course

Start dates You can start any time between August and May

You can undertake a negotiated programme of research leading to the award of either a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree or a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree. These higher degrees are awarded in recognition of a successful period of research training, normally culminating in the production of a thesis, frequently alongside a body of practice-based creative work.

Entry requirements An undergraduate degree (at least second class) in a related discipline, or equivalent

There are three routes to a higher degree:

MPhil This route is designed for graduates who want to gain a strong knowledge and understanding of the subject and then take the discipline forward through an approved programme of original research.

New route PhD The new route is for recently qualified graduates with good honours degrees who are keen to progress immediately to a research experience. It offers online taught modules with a Master of Research (MRes) skills component, and normally takes four years of full time study.

Traditional route PhD This route entails a programme of research that normally takes three years of full time study. You can choose to take it part time over a period of up to six years. The traditional route enables capable and qualified individuals with a masters degree to pursue an original research investigation into their chosen topic within a field of enquiry.

We will design an individual research programme to suit your topic and you will regularly meet your supervisor for guidance and progress monitoring. We offer PhD supervision in a wide range of areas. Current research projects include: On the Threshold of the Audible and the Visible: Artists’ time-based experiments to disclose discrete phenomena and traces of lived experience in resonant spaces Louise K Wilson, PhD Theory/Practice in Photography Louise’s research explores how artists are using the medium of sound (recording, editing, manipulating, and amplifying) to ask philosophical and material questions about the spatiotemporal physicality of specific sites and our perception of them. The choice of places under investigation is crucial for this discussion – she is analysing artists’ work that explores sites with contested, complex histories to discern current ways of thinking that dovetail technology, methodology, and place.

Louise has travelled to numerous military and scientific sites, including nuclear submarines, US listening stations, marine research environments, rocket launch sites, and disused RAF bases in pursuit of the acoustics of resonant spaces. She has explored the ways in which technologies of the audible create new ways of engaging with the lost traces of institutional places that are ordinarily overlooked. She is particularly interested in how these sites resonate with cinematic mythologies and narratives. The Eyeballs in the Sky James Pyman, PhD Theory/Practice in Visual Arts James’s research project addresses how identity is defined by circumstance, geography, and popular culture. His art practice is about growing up on the English south coast on a diet of 1970s’ comic books, rock albums, sitcoms, wwand newspaper cartoons. He uses this compendium of childlike interests and adolescent pursuits as a vocabulary with which to communicate complex ideas, with the focus of his study being a practice-based examination

of The Perishers, a humorous newspaper cartoon strip (published by the Daily Mirror, 1959–2006). James uses The Perishers as a prism through which to view British cartooning history and to discuss the shift of a mass democratic understanding of a visual language, specifically a graphic handdrawn language. His thesis will examine the political and cultural framework that

determined the narrative and visual development of The Perishers across a period of decades. This research material will inform a new body of comic strips written and drawn by James, entitled The Scruffy Herberts, which will feature new fictional characters, settings, and stories. Find out more about our research www.derby.ac.uk/adt/research

Fees 2013/2014 fees for UK/EU students are: £3,900 (each year) for full time study of the MPhil, PhD, and the new route PhD; £1,950 (each year) for part time study of the MPhil and traditional route PhD; and £2,350 (each year) for part time study of the new route PhD. For the most up to date information on fees please visit our website How to apply www.derby.ac.uk/research (use forms RD2 and RD3) International students For non-UK/EU students studying the MPhil, PHD, and the new route PhD full time, the 2013/2014 fees are: £9,895 (each year); £4,948 (each year) for distance learning study of the MPhil and traditional route PhD; and £6,340 (each year) for distance learning study of the new route PhD Please see page 9 for further details

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