Centre for Pedagogy Futures

The Centre for Pedagogy Futures is a space to explore, imagine, challenge and critique pedagogy for the benefit of individuals, communities and society.
Focusing predominantly on creative pedagogy, due to the wealth of experience at hand, it is a space for voices committed to defining, shaping and protecting the role of pedagogy in formal education and everyday life.
Projects within this Centre

Varyon VR
Varyon VR is a virtual theatre space for live and pre-recorded performance.

designdice™
designdice™ is a set of nine co-ordinated dice which are used as a tool to help the creative proce...

Sound/Image Cinema Lab
Based at Falmouth, Sound/Image Cinema Lab has produced a number of regional and national documentari...
Centre overview
The Centre for Pedagogy Futures draws on Falmouth University’s considerable experience of praxis in creative subjects to imagine new ways of teaching creativity and creatively teaching. We are a community of academics and professionals committed to preserving the value of the arts and humanities and what it brings to society, using pedagogy as a vehicle for creative practice, research, knowledge and cultural exchange.
Through innovative teaching and research projects, such as the Sound/Image Cinema Lab, and investigative, collaborative partnerships, including our work with Trinity College London, the Centre is committed to developing a greater understanding of how creativity can be taught and learned, the value of creative pedagogy across a spectrum of disciplines, the relationship between skills for life and skills for employment and communicating to a global audience the need for new thinking around relationships between academia, industry and state bodies.
The Centre is developing PhD briefs that explore its key briefs, some tied to existing projects and some focused on work that has the potential to influence (local and national) policy regarding arts and humanities education, the appropriate level of skills and employability that should be embedded in a university degree without it losing its value, and the relationship between creativity and wellbeing in creative courses and courses that utilise creative pedagogies.

Dr Neil Fox
Centre Lead
Dr Neil Fox's main professorial responsibility is leading the Sound/Image Cinema Lab. The Lab is a multifaceted partner, funder, resource and research centre dedicated to the production and education of independent cinema. In 2020 the Lab won an innovative pedagogy award at the University Industry Innovation Network where Dr Fox was recognised as a trailblazer. The Lab has been involved in feature films including Bait (dir. Mark Jenkin, 2018) and Make Up (dir. Clare Oakley, 2019).
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Photo credit: Jake Cunliffe, Television BA(Hons) graduate
Filming wraps on Falmouth lecturer’s new folk horror film, crewed by students and staff
17 August 2023
Images above by Jake Cunliffe, Television BA(Hons) graduate Falmouth University’s emerging film...

Falmouth graduates leading the production of new LGBTQ+ short film
22 March 2023
Two Falmouth graduates are heading up the production team behind 'King Henry'.

Middle Watch narrowly misses the win at 2023 BAFTAs
21 February 2023
The Falmouth community was rooting for the team behind short animation Middle Watch during Sunday’...

Mark Jenkin’s ENYS MEN in cinemas 13 January
05 January 2023
ENYS MEN, Mark Jenkin's highly anticipated follow-up to the BAFTA-winning BAIT, will be hitting UK c...

Sound/Image Cinema Lab wins bronze at Reimagine Education Awards 2022
08 December 2022
Falmouth University film teaching and research project Sound/Image Cinema Lab has been awarded bronz...

Enys Men to be released in the UK by the BFI
05 October 2022
Enys Men, the latest feature film to be written and directed by Falmouth University’s Distinguishe...

Lecturer's film Long Way Back to be released in cinemas
25 August 2022
Long Way Back, the third feature film to be written and directed by Falmouth University Associate Le...

Enys Men premieres in Cannes
20 May 2022
Enys Men, the latest feature film to be written and directed by Falmouth University’s Distinguishe...

Sound/Image Cinema Lab film makes its way to SXSW in new Folk Horror documentary
22 March 2022
The award-winning short film Backwoods, which was developed by Falmouth’s Sound/Image Cinema lab, ...

Film and Television students & staff collaborate on short film Mab Hudel
21 January 2022
The Sound/Image Cinema Lab has added a new film to its portfolio. Students and staff have collaborat...
Research opportunities
We accept proposals for MPhil or PhD study from applicants with a project idea of their own which aligns with the aims of the Centre for Pedagogy Futures or as a response to one of our associated Falmouth Doctoral Project briefs below.
Find out more about the application process for MPhil or PhD study with us on our Research Degrees pages:

Radical Spaces of Making
This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Diversifying UK actor training
This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

Imagining the future of UK film education in universities
This doctoral programme seeks to bring together pedagogical design for film education with a vital c...