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Visual Effects alumnus discusses being honoured with Academy Award
BA(Hons) Animation & Visual Effects alumnus Josh Bainbridge has received a Scientific and Technical Academy Award for his work at Frames...
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MA Photography Senior Lecturer launches major show at the National Gallery of Scotland
07 August 2026
Wendy McMurdo: The Digital Mirror is the National Gallery of Scotland’s latest exhibition, chartin...
Games Academy trio named Into Games 50 winners
06 August 2026
Three graduates from Falmouth’s Games Academy have been named winners in this year's IG50, an annu...
Meet the stars of our 2027 postgraduate Prospectus
03 August 2026
Meet the stars of our new 2027 postgraduate prospectus. We're shining a spotlight on ten of our bril...
Photography alumnus on winning Getty Images Young Photographer of the Year and working at Wimbledon
30 July 2026
Just one year after graduating, Benj Gilbert has won Getty Images Young Photographer of the Year at ...
Falmouth University honours four champions of Cornish and cultural identity with 2026 Honorary Awards
22 July 2026
Falmouth University is proud to introduce this year’s Honorary Award recipients, each recognised f...
Falmouth University announces appointment of next Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive
23 July 2026
Falmouth University is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Larra Anderson as its next V...
Falmouth University ranked top five in the south west
13 July 2026
Falmouth University has been ranked as one of the top five universities in the south west in the lat...
Online Film & TV graduate films Antarctic extremes on “impossible” trip
21 July 2026
When disabled adventurer Darren Edwards set out to reach the South Pole, the goal was extraordinary....
BAFTA-winning Marine Photography lecturer on working with Sir David Attenborough
30 June 2026
From working on various BBC landmark series such as Planet Earth and Frozen Planet to being part of ...
Fine Art duo subverts the Gentlemen’s Club | Degree Show Stories
13 July 2026
BA(Hons) Fine Art final-year students Anya Palmer and Ella Pawlak tackled gender assumptions in thei...
A microscopic breakthrough in Marine & Natural History Photography | Degree Show Stories
06 July 2026
BA(Hons) Marine & Natural History Photography final-year student Aryah Nagarajan has made a microsco...
Championing representation in Fashion Styling & Art Direction | Degree Show Stories
02 July 2026
Students in Falmouth’s Fashion & Textiles Institute are supported to take ownership of the directi...
Visual Effects graduate celebrated with Academy Award
15 May 2026
BA(Hons) Digital Animation & Visual Effects graduate Josh Bainbridge has received a Scientific and T...
Why this Film student chose a 16mm camera for his final project | Degree Show Stories
29 June 2026
For BA(Hons) Film final year student Luca Vasile-Berde, working with 16mm film for the first time at...
Popular Music students’ rise from campus gigs to festival stages | Degree Show Stories
23 June 2026
Welcome to Degree Show Stories, our summer series where we go behind the scenes with our final year ...
From personal vision to professional Fashion Design | Degree Show Stories
15 June 2026
Welcome to Degree Show Stories, our summer series where we go behind the scenes with our final year ...
From first-year nerves to centre stage | Degree Show Stories
08 June 2026
Welcome to Degree Show Stories, our summer series where we go behind the scenes with our final year ...
The future of Costume Design starts here | Degree Show Stories
27 May 2026
BA(Hons) Costume Design for Film & Television final year student Maisie Pepperell discusses collabor...
Award-winning author and lecturer explores what it means to be ‘seaworthy’ in ambitious collaborative project
11 May 2026
What does it mean to be ‘seaworthy’? That is the question at the heart of Booker-nominated autho...
Games Academy graduates help deliver BAFTA-winning Atomfall
08 May 2026
Three graduates from Falmouth University’s Games Academy have helped create the action survival ga...
Turning a cinema into a communal living space on the Interior Architecture course | Degree Show Stories
04 September 2026
BA(Hons) Interior Architecture graduate Hannah Schmidt reimagined an old art deco cinema in Plymouth
Designing micro-living apartments to help tackle homelessness | Degree Show Stories
04 September 2026
BA(Hons) Interior Architecture graduate Sholto Ross has spent the past year working on his final
Finding her voice as a storyteller through female friendship | Degree Show Stories
04 September 2026
BA(Hons) Television & Film Production third-year student Millie Clamp wrote and directed "All That
Indie Game Development graduates ship debut horror game
04 September 2026
Laura Sanders and Tim Marquis-Fjeld met on the MA MA Indie Game Development (Online), where mentor
Hands-on from day one on the Film & TV Production course | Degree Show Stories
04 September 2026
Television & Film Production BA(Hons) graduate Ollie McCartney visited multiple university open days
The freedom to follow his own path in art direction | Degree Show Stories
04 September 2026
BA(Hons) Fashion Styling & Art Direction student Jack Stead says the freedom the course gives him to
Communication Design alumna on holding open studio at Cornwall’s archive hub
03 September 2026
Inspired by the archive collection at Kresen Kernow, MA Communication Design alumna Amelia Temple
Finding community online: how Falmouth’s online fine artists have continued to create collaboratively
03 September 2026
For visual and conceptual artist Nicky Ruddick, one of Falmouth’s MA Fine Art (Online) alumni, the
From international film student to feature film co-writer
01 September 2026
For MA Film & Television alumnus Karan Thakkar, his time at Falmouth gave him the opportunity to
Studying an indie games master’s while working at Ubisoft Abu Dhabi
26 August 2026
Jonas Noronha was already working in the games industry when he decided to return to study
Rewriting the Story of Metal
25 August 2026
Metal music generates an image in the minds of people. Loud, outside the mainstream, lots of black
How to create a professional illustration portfolio
25 August 2026
In this guide, Illustration BA course leader Nigel Owen explains how to build an illustration
