MFA Design (Fashion / Graphics / Illustration / Interaction / Interior / Jewellery and Metalwork / Packaging ) at Sheffield Hallam University

• Be part of an interdisciplinary design programme which promotes an ethos of social and cultural innovation.
• Develop your specialist skills and knowledge in a collaborative studio environment.
• Innovate with materials, technology and conceptual thinking.
• Extend existing material practices in response to the needs of our rapidly changing world.
• Have the opportunity to work abroad — Erasmus funding is available for European placements.

Placing emphasis on personal research, this course gives 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 whilst developing an independent and autonomous approach.

Live projects

We embed an understanding of and dialogue with the creative industries and the world of professional practice beyond the postgraduate studio. Live projects are embedded into specific modules, and you're encouraged through advice and support to seek industrial sponsors or collaborators for individual projects. The long-established link with our Art and Design Research Centre (ADRC) supports a continuing tradition of graduates from the Masters courses working as research assistants and/or continuing their studies to PhD

Field trips

There are opportunities to participate in study trips and visits to design conferences and debates.

Networking opportunities

You benefit from studying within a cross-disciplinary, vibrant, international, collaborative and supportive postgraduate environment. You can work alongside our Design Futures consultancy, and with researchers from the ADRC. We also have contacts with leading design agencies and organisations, museums and practitioners and we encourage you to work collaboratively with them.

Your Fashion Design tutors have connections and knowledge in specialist areas including; innovative pattern cutting, CAD and fashion technology, fashion marketing, fashion entrepreneurship, fashion craft and sustainability.

Future careers

This course prepares you for a career as a

• independent design practitioner
• designer
• design manager
• maker or manufacturer
• company-employed designer
• postgraduate student at PhD level

The primary intention of the course is for you to achieve your personal employment ambitions whether as a design professional in the creative industries, or in related areas such as research, retail, marketing, and education.