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.
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 ...
Performance Writing Research Group
Performance Writing Research Group comprises a number of cross-disciplinary researcher/practitioners and students, within UCF 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 Larry Lynch:...
RANE Research Group
The RANE research group, based at University College Falmouth, has been established to examine the relationship between the visual arts and ecological thinking. It actively seeks creative methods through which art can impact on our current environmental predicament. Using artistic practice the group aims to offer interpretations and models of thinking about the natural world that help to promote a sustainable future.
The method employed is transdisciplinary in that it draws togeth...
The method employed is transdisciplinary in that it draws togeth...
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...
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, Taylor...
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 Education...
Research interests
Enquiring into the ‘installative' with particular concerns for the material and performative presence of moving and sonic image and the play of light and sound...
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