Collaborative Research and Innovation
Working at the forefront of the areas in which we teach, our researchers are committed to collaborating across disciplinary boundaries, and in partnership with industry, government, and the communities we serve, to address the key challenges of our age.
We work in partnership with organisations to submit applications for collaborative research funding and develop briefs for doctoral research.
To explore what support might be available to support your ambition, please contact the Knowledge Exchange team.
Our research centres
Centre for Blended Realities
Utilising shared technologies, the Centre for Blended Realities fosters excellence in collaborative ...
Centre for Heritage, Culture & Society
The Centre for Heritage, Culture & Society addresses people’s relationships with past, present...
Centre for Arts & Health
Through collaborative, arts based participatory research, the Centre for Arts & Health at Falmou...
Centre for Pedagogy Futures
The Centre for Pedagogy Futures is a space to explore, imagine, challenge and critique pedagogy for ...
Doctoral Project Briefs
Each year, Falmouth University invites MPhil and PhD project proposals that align with and respond to the Doctoral Project briefs.
Doctoral Project briefs are prospective research calls devised by Falmouth University staff to indicate our priority areas of research interest for research degree applicants.
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Charismatic
Charismatic is a research and development project supported by Innovate UK.
The UK-based consortium includes Oxford based AI company Charisma working with Falmouth University’s Sound/Image Cinema Lab, University of the Arts London’s Creative Computing Institute, Channel Four, Aardman Animations, Sound Reactions, and digital sociologist Lisa Talia Moretti.
A keystone of our research is working with screen partners to discover the potential of emergent technologies to aid and advance creative practice. A central theme of this project is the use of these technologies in assisting creatives in developing their work for the screen, and providing tools with which we can enable underrepresented groups through lowering the barriers to film and television production.
In terms of the potential for research and knowledge exchange, we’re interested in exploring and reporting on the changes to cultures of production that surround these technologies.
Explore this projectATTUNE
ATTUNE was a significant arts and mental health research project led by a collaboration between Falmouth University and the University of Oxford.
The ATTUNE research collaboration explored the individual, environmental, social, economic, educational and geographical factors that influenced young peoples’ mental health.
ATTUNE aimed to understand the pathways of risk and resilience from Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) to adolescent mental health outcomes. To do this, it brought together a national consortium of academic, public sector, voluntary and community sector, and charity partners. The project used participatory, arts-based research methods alongside epidemiology and health economics.
ACEs are highly stressful or traumatic events that can have a lasting impact on health and wellbeing throughout a person’s lifetime. Almost half of young people experience at least one ACE, and one in ten experience four or more. Examples can include abuse, neglect, witnessing violence, substance misuse in the family and discrimination.
Through creative, co-designed research activities with young people, ATTUNE uncovered new insights into how these experiences affect mental health, and how support services can respond in ways that young people find meaningful and validating.
Flexi-Hex: Rethinking packaging, one honeycomb at a time
It started with a surfboard and a moment of frustration.
When a board ordered online arrived swaddled in layers of plastic, Will and Sam Boex - twin brothers - knew there had to be a better way. What followed was a kitchen-table experiment with honeycomb card and an idea that wouldn’t let go.
That idea became Flexi-Hex: a Cornish packaging company making waves on the global stage, with clients from Bollinger to boutique wellness brands and an expanding portfolio of planet-friendly, consumer-delighting solutions.
But scaling a sustainable packaging innovation is no small feat - and that’s where Launchpad Futures stepped in.
“We’ve always had a close relationship with Falmouth University,” says Will, Co-Founder and Operations Director. “But working with the Launchpad team really helped us take things up a gear.”
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