MA Fashion and Textiles Design with Industry Placement

Overview

The course aims to develop practice-based learning, informed by an in-depth study of design. It tends to attract students from an art and design background, looking to challenge established practice and offer new insights. Through well-resourced workshops the course also promotes new approaches and processes.

You'll be able to study an area of fashion and textiles that interests you. You'll also be encouraged to work on inter-disciplinary projects, reflecting the school's strategy of creative collaborations between subject areas to foster design innovation. And you'll be supported by staff with knowledge that covers everything from design and manufacture through to technology and creativity.

We work closely with established industry partners in the field of fashion and textiles. Our support team will meet with you at the end of semester 1 to assist you in finding a suitable placement. We encourage you to utilise your own professional network to source independent placements, and our team will work with your contacts to secure and manage these additional industry placements. Our business organisations will use an interview process to recruit their placement students. As the placement is credit bearing, to progress onto the 3 month placement you will need to reach the designated attainment status beforehand. The aim is for the placement to provide you with the skills and knowledge to complete your final masters research project and to give you practice based work experience. Find out about our placements in the student handbook.

The Fashion and Textiles Design with Industrial Placement degree is taught at our Scottish Borders Campus in Galashiels. To find out more about the final design collections, visit the School pages.

Objectives:

• Challenge traditional and contemporary uses of fashion and textiles, as well as creating the opportunity to promote new approaches and processes in fashion and textiles
• Provide students with the knowledge, skills and competencies to meet the diverse demands of the fashion and textile industries
• Encourage, in inter-disciplinary projects, creative collaborations between subject areas to foster innovation
• Develop an inter-disciplinary understanding of key issues relating to the design, management and innovation in fashion and textiles
• Develop competent and confident professionals for the global fashion and textiles industries with an in-depth understanding of the creative process and its management in international and local contexts

Course length

The full-time course is offered in September and lasts 15 months.

September 2023 entry

The deadline for applications from Scottish and RUK students is 31st August 2023. For EU and overseas applicants, we guarantee to consider applications submitted by 1st August 2023.