Falmouth has made a significant investment in research facilities and infrastructure.
The AIR Building (Academy for Innovation & Research) is the hub of our research activity. Several new initiatives are also currently hosted in AIR, including the digital games hub, business entrepreneurship programmes and our embryonic computing initiative.
Researchers also have access to a wide variety of other campus-based facilities including:
AIR Sandpit
The Sandpit is a specialist technology-enhanced collaborative workspace located within the AIR Studio that enables groups of stakeholders (researchers, external organisations and other partners) to come together under the guidance of a workshop facilitator to explore issues and challenges. We run a variety of events in the Sandpit from specialised conferences and workshops to our researcher and research student development sessions.
Falmouth Launchpad Games Digital Lab
This lab hosts the new digital games companies being formed at Falmouth using a market-led innovation model. The graduate entrepreneurship programme, is currently being trialled in a one year pilot. We have recruited 20 recent graduates who have formed five business teams to address particular market opportunities identified with partner organisations such as Sony, BT, and Goonhilly Earth Station.
The Performance Centre
The Performance Centre has 700m2 of fully sprung Harlequin dance floors, 11 high-specification performance and rehearsal studios, 12 practice rooms, and a 200-capacity flexible theatre space that has been used by research projects such as Vconect. The Performance Centre is also home to the Centre for Performance Research, a resource centre and archive of international significance, which relocated to Falmouth in 2013.
Design Centre
The Design Centre has extensive provision for digital fabrication, including an industrial-scale five-axis milling machine and digital jacquard loom. It also houses extensive workshops for ceramics, textiles, wood, glass, metal and plastic machining and fabrication, including CNC routing and 3D printing in polymers and ceramics.
Media Centre
The Media Centre has a fully equipped TV studio with motion capture facilities, 18 video editing digilabs and a 106-seat cinema.
Libraries
We have two libraries with a total catalogued stock of over 294,000 items, including access to academic journals and e-books. The library curates a number of research archives, including the Dartington Historical Records, the Ian Stern Photographic Archive and Institute of Cornish Studies Archive Collections. We have recently invested in an e-Prints Research Repository, now launched as the Falmouth University Research Repository, which is capable of hosting outputs from the creative sector.
