Nicola Salkeld

Senior Lecturer / Course Co-ordinator (Stage 1)

Nicola is one half of MOTH, which is a research project, that investigates the skills and contributions communication designers can make to death studies and end of life experiences. Working across a number of applied projects with a broad range of partners and practitioners; (academics, medics, artists, experience designers, historians , philosophers, sociologist, curators, writers and students). Moth has focused on both design practice within pedagogy as well as applied innovation of products and events. It aims to challenge attitudes, conventions and context surrounding death and dying.

Nicola joined Falmouth in 2006 and works across all three undergrad years. She is an External examiner for UAL from 2020.

External websites

Email	nicola.salkeld@falmouth.ac.uk
Telephone	01326 213727 (ext 3727)

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Qualifications

Year	Qualification	Awarding body
1995	MA	Royal College of Art
2005	Level 4 Teaching Qualification FE Stage 2	City & Guilds
1990	BA(Hons)	Central St Martins School of Art and Design

Honours and awards

Year	Description
2001	ILT Membership
1995	The Chris Garham Memorial Prize for Photography
1995	The Bankers Pyramid Trust Award - New Business BUMP design
1995	The Brian Robb Italian Travel Prize
1994	The Painters & Stainers Prize RCA

Membership of external committees

Research Interests

Research interests and expertise

Moth Death & Dying

• Opening windows for meaningful conversation, communication and connection.
• Promoting a sense of well-being, reduced anxiety (through empowerment).
• Creating a sense of achievement and legacy.
• Facilitiating a place for creative exchange and contribution.
• Advocacy for mourning. Acceptance of sadness is a natural and necessary part of a maturing process, reducing stress, anxiety and depression in the surviving relatives.
• Recognising that the purpose of grief is not to move on without those one who have died, but to find a secure place for them and that recounting the life of the deceased is not just a secular alternative to religious ritual, but a social-psychological necessity.

Research topics

Graphic Design
MOTH Death & Design
Graphic Transcription and Forensics
Image Making

Research Outputs

Publications and research outputs

Book Section

Rudolph, Ashley and Salkeld, Nicola (2016) Design of Death. In: Malady and Mortality' Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture. Language and Literature . Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle Upon Tyne UK, pp. 229-244. ISBN 978-1-4438-9010-6

Conference or Workshop Item

Salkeld, Nicola and Rudolph, Ashley (2020) Dying.dialogues Jan 24 - Jan 25 2020 ‘Dying.dialogues’ is a symposium on design for end-of-life with collaborators from the Health Design Studio at OCADU Toronto and Taboo Health. In: Dying Dialogues & Design TO Festival, 24.01.20-26 01.20, OCAD UNIVERSITY 100 McCaul Street, Toronto, Canada M5T 1W1 www.ocadu.ca.

Salkeld, Nicola and Rudolph, Ashley (2018) Good Grief: Collections, Classification & Curation. Ars Moriendi: The Art of Dying (well)& Magical Thinking. In: DaCNet Death and Culture II conference, 06-07 Sept 2018, University of York. (Unpublished)

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Salkeld, Nicola and Rudolph, Ashley (2017) Moth Project: Four Deadlines & a Dinner/TALKCPR Bevan Commission Annual Conference 2017/18. In: Moth Project: Four Deadlines & a Dinner/TALKCPR Bevan Commission Annual Conference 2017/18, 14 09 17, Swansea.

Salkeld, Nicola and Rudolph, Ashley (2015) One day symposium Graphic Designers Research. In: One day symposium Graphic Designers Research, Nov 2015, Falmouth University.

Jenkins, Jessica (2015) One day symposium Graphic Designers Research. In: One day symposium Graphic Designers Research, 20th November 2015, Falmouth University. (In Press)

Salkeld, Nicola and Rudolph, Ashley (2015) CDAS Conference 2015: Death and its Futures: • envision 21st century futures of death, dying and bereavement, e.g. predicted trends, scenarios to be avoided, future living and dying that we and our descendants can embrace • radically re-think end-of-life policies and practices • set out future research agendas • showcase innovative research, teaching, practice, or public engagement. In: Death and its Futures, May 2015, Bath University.

Salkeld, Nicola and Rudolph, Ashley (2015) CDAS Conference 2015: Death and its Futures:. In: Death and its Futures, 05-06 June 2015, Bath University. Item availability may be restricted.

Salkeld, Nicola and Rudolph, Ashley (2014) Type Workshop 2: UnDead Type. In: Type Workshop 2: UnDead Type, 14 March 2014, Falmouth University.

Salkeld, Nicola and Rudolph, Ashley (2013) 'Malady and Mortality' Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture. In: 'Malady and Mortality' Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture, Thursday 19th - Friday 20th September 2013, Falmouth University.

Salkeld, Nicola and Rudolph, Ashley (2013) Malady and Mortality: Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture. In: Malady & Mortality, 19 Sept 2013, Falmouth University. Item availability may be restricted.

Exhibition

Salkeld, Nicola and Rudolph, Ashley (2019) In The Face of Death / The Art of Dying. ANTI International Contemporary Art Festival Kuopio, Finland. [Exhibition]

Salkeld, Nicola and Rudolph, Ashley (2017) STUFF. [Exhibition] Item availability may be restricted.

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Salkeld, Nicola, Rudolph, Ashley and Willow, Lucy (2014) Memento Mori. [Exhibition]

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Salkeld, Nicola and Prins, Jez (2011) 26 Flavours of Cornwall. [Exhibition]

Project

Salkeld, Nicola and Rudolph, Ashley (2016) MOTH. [Project]

Salkeld, Nicola, Rudolph, Ashley, Bufler, Stefan and Wörgötter, Michael (2016) In The Face of Death. [Project]

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Salkeld, Nicola and Rudolph, Ashley (2015) In The Face of Death. [Project]

Conference

Salkeld, Nicola and Rudolph, Ashley (2016) MOTH Talks: In the Face of Death. [Conference]

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Jenkins, Jessica (2015) Graphic Designers Research | Falmouth University | Nov 20th 2015. Concept and Curation: Dr. Jessica Jenkins. [Conference]

Events

Year	Description
2013	Malady and Mortality: Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture
2001	On Paper: Crafts Council Exhibition & Catalogue. 2001 Inside Cover: 20 Designers Books / ‘Space Hotel’. Published by Salter Baxter Inside Cover Exhibition: 20 Designers Books / ‘Space Hotel’. Published by Salter Baxter. Touring Exhibition of Inside Cover: London, Edinbururgh, Halifax Museum van het Boek, The Hague The Centre for British Art, Yale, Connecticut. Printed Matter, New York Galerie Graphes, Paris Centre des Livres, Sait-Yrieix-La-Preche France Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin
2019	Paper. The 14th International Conference on the Social Context of Death, Dying, and Disposal. (DDD14) CDAS UNIVERSITY OF BATH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE.
2018	Paper. Death & Culture II. DaCNet University of York. Conference paper.
2016	In The face of Death. MOTH Symposium - Dr Stephen Cave Executive Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. University of Cambridge. - Dr Tony Walter. Professor of Death Studies / Director of University of Baths Centre for Death & Society. - Joe Macleod. Closure Experience designer. - Lucy Willow Artist and SL Fine Art Falmouth University. Founder of Café Morte. -Mercedes Kemp Associate Director of Community and Research for WildWorks, Theatre. SL Critical and Cultural studies.
2016	Paper. Graphic Designers Research Symposium. Falmouth University SOCD- Design Research practice: spanning theory, practice, history and the profession. - Moth: Ashley Rudolph & Nicola Salkeld - Dr Rathna Ramanathan Head of Communication Design RCA - Jeremy Aynsley Professor of Design History Brighton - Craig Oldham Designer and Writer - Dr. Rebecca Ross. Profession. Course Leader, MA Graphic Communication Design CSM. UAL - John L. Walters. Eye editor / co-owner - Alice Twemlow, Design critic, historian and founding chair of the Department of Design Research, Writing & Criticism at the SVA (School of Visual Arts) in New York.
2015	Paper. Death and Its Futures. University of Bath CDAS. Paper.
2017	MOTH STUFF: A series of Collections (30 Exhibitors): Objects and artifacts as triggers for hidden memory, micro/macro, parts and whole, constructing and de-constructing, a passion for ‘rejects’ and fragments. SOCD Falmouth University. 2017 STUFF_A Novel in 25 Words. SOCD Falmouth University.
2018	NHS @ 70. The Hearth Gallery, Exhibition, University Hospital Llandough. Penlan Road, Llandough.
2014	Memento Mori: Falmouth Art Gallery. Discourse around death and dying and end of life matters: 2014
2006	National Maritime Museum + ING Bank. re:Inventing
2019	ANTI – International Contemporary Art Festival Kuopio, Finland. http://antifestival.com/ MOTH PROJECT

Teaching

Courses taught

Graphic Design BA(Hons)

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