Research Community
In this section you can learn more about our vibrant research community comprising academic staff, postgraduate research students and technical staff.
Many of our research groups and R&D projects have the facility for you to join their on-line community so that you can be kept informed or get involved.
Research Groups
Autonomatic
WE ARE AUTONOMATIC
We are design practitioners with skills and experience in designing in ceramics, metals, glass, plaster, plastics, amongst other media. As creative researchers we have a basic urge to invent new ways of making things, to ask “what if?”, “so what?” and “what next?”. Through our open and exploratory approach to using digital technologies we hope to inspire others to approach these technologies with a creative mindset.
BlackBox
BlackBox is a transdisciplinary research group investigating how the photographic still and moving image can impact on wider areas of knowledge. Starting with the premise that the camera acts as a conduit or catalyst, linking differing disciplines, for example: sculpture, writing, performance, sound, health etc.. We are interested in the dissemination of imagery and in the development of new forms of publishing and curation both analogue and digital.
For further information please conta...
Material & Visual Culture
We are historians, theorists and practitioners of art and design. We are interested in the history, circulation and interpretation of material and visual culture. This includes practice-based research that interacts/reworks existing material and visual culture in contemporary contexts. This may include, but is not limited to, collaborative working with museums, galleries, archives and collections. There is a focus on the role of memory, place, storytelling, everyday culture, socially engaged ...
Pedare: Centre for Pedagogic Arts-based Research
About
The Centre for Pedagogic Arts-based Research, PedARe, is a focus for pedagogic studies at Falmouth University generating leading research in e-learning, pure pedagogic research, performance based pedagogy and visual thinking. It is based within Learning Futures which is responsible for the enhancement of learning and teaching strategy and practice at Falmouth. PedARe works across disciplines and subject areas, is inclusive and collaborative.
Performance Writing Research Group
Performance Writing Research Group comprises a number of cross-disciplinary researcher/practitioners and students, within Falmouth University and beyond, investigating multi-modal forms of writing in contemporary social and artistic contexts.
We are engaged in four main areas of enquiry: Electronic literature/digital text, Prosody - Language and Sound, The Situatedness of Writing and The Littoral - writing coasts.
For further details, contact:
Dr L...
RANE Research Group
Since 2004 the RANE research group at Falmouth University has been examining the relationship between the visual arts and ecological thinking, with the aim of contributing to a more sustainable future. Against the backdrop of accelerating environmental and economic collapse the arts are seen as a method for developing alternative models of thinking and doing.
The growing crisis that we are facing is, in large part, a systemic failure and consequently cannot be tackled with more of...
The growing crisis that we are facing is, in large part, a systemic failure and consequently cannot be tackled with more of...
Research & Innovation Office
The Research & Innovation Office facilitates research processes and postgraduate research, and assists academics with external funding and research applications. RIO also develops research and enterprise at Falmouth.
Sonva
Sonva, a Cornish word meaning 'Place of Sound', is a research group at Falmouth University pursuing a diversity of contemporary approaches to sound and music.
Sonva is a collective of practitioners comprising music makers, writers and artists. We do, make, analyse, organise, code and sculpt sound. Common threads within our research include:
• engagement with different cultural contexts and musical languages
• techno...
Sonva is a collective of practitioners comprising music makers, writers and artists. We do, make, analyse, organise, code and sculpt sound. Common threads within our research include:
• engagement with different cultural contexts and musical languages
• techno...
Meet our research staff
Gary Allson is a product designer and teaches at University College Falmouth on the 3D Design course. His research emphasises interdisciplinary collaboration that explore the...
Dr. Ric Allsopp is a co-founder and joint editor of Performance Research, a quarterly international journal of contemporary performance (London & New York: Routledge,...
Storytelling to promote pro-environmental behaviour in Cornish businesses.<br />
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John Baldacchino is currently Associate Dean at the School of Art & Design at University College, Falmouth, United Kingdom. He was Associate Professor of Art and Art...
I have been active in business and academic sustainable design projects since 1987, nationally and internationally. My work is not specific, but rather spread over a broad range...
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