Research & Innovation Programmes

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Explore our programmes

Falmouth has ten research and innovation programmes, each of which brings together different combinations of challenges, methodologies and disciplines.

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Creative Industries Futures

Our projects explore dynamic and innovative routes to social, cultural and economic impact through t...

Creative Industries Futures
Digital Creativity
Digital Creativity Lead

Digital Creativity

We explore innovative applications of game and interface design innovations within sectors spanning ...

Digital Creativity
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Digital Entrepreneurship and Financial Innovation

Working with a wide range of industry and business partners, our projects explore the role of creati...

Digital Entrepreneurship and Financial Innovation
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Inequality & Storytelling

Our researchers and practitioners assault bias, discrimination, indifference, injustice and marginal...

Inequality & Storytelling
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Environmental Futures

Research in this programme has produced exciting applications in areas such as agri-tech, aquacultur...

Environmental Futures
Metamakers
Metamakers Lead

Metamakers

The Metamakers Institute undertakes computational creativity research with the aim of stimulating ec...

Metamakers
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Multigenerational Living & Learning

This programme investigates multigenerational living and care models, technologies for adult social ...

Multigenerational Living & Learning
Dark Economies
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Dark Economies

This programme explores the story-worlds we create to express our fears and anxieties through repres...

Dark Economies
Pedagogy Futures
Pedagogy Futures Lead

Pedagogy Futures

This programme addresses themes from staff wellbeing and industry engagement to the future of teachi...

Pedagogy Futures
Design for Health and Wellbeing
Design for Health and Wellbeing Lead

Design for Health and Wellbeing

The Design for Health and Wellbeing programme is seeking to stimulate research and innovation that c...

Design for Health and Wellbeing

Our broader Themes

These programmes reflect and are guided by three broader Themes that run through all of Falmouth's Research & Innovation work: Creative Connected Communities, Design Thinking and Digital Economy.

Read about our Themes
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