Our MA Design Innovation and Technology course combines creativity, user-centred design, and technology to explore how design thinking can drive transformation.
From studying this course you'll be able to anticipate emerging trends and visualise the future. You'll focus on innovation and making, and have access to excellent resources and facilities for creative experimentation and production. By applying creative problem-solving strategies, you'll respond to complex real-world challenges. As you build your expertise, you'll learn to combine traditional making skills with the latest digital technology and fabrication techniques. You'll craft services and products that are impactful and deeply engaging.
Some of the resources and facilities you'll use include:
In our maker lab spaces you'll work with students from diverse creative and scientific backgrounds to address real-world projects together. You'll also benefit from industry guest speakers, study trips and studio visits.
During workshops you'll integrate craft skills, such as woodworking and metalworking, with digital products. Throughout this MA design innovation course, you'll engage with critical debates and contemporary developments. You'll learn about human-centred research methods, strive to understand diverse contexts, and anticipate user behaviour. You’ll also develop skills to engage with the social and ethical responsibilities of design. As well as building an understanding of speculative design, emerging technologies, and their production processes.
Completing this MA design innovation course means you'll be in a great position to advance your research with further study or start-up your own business as an innovator or entrepreneur, if you choose. With your knowledge and skills in the design and technology innovation sector, you'll graduate confident in your abilities to create impactful and sustainable solutions.
We regularly review our courses to ensure and improve quality. This course may be revised as a result of this. Any revision will be balanced against the requirement that the student should receive the educational service expected. Find out why, when, and how we might make changes .
Our courses are regulated in England by the Office for Students (OfS).
To apply for our MA Design Innovation and Technology course, you'll need:
We welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds and experiences, including international applicants with an interest in design innovation and technology within their sector.
Non-standard entry will be considered and encouraged, with the academic team weighing applications on their merit (in relation to things such as work and life experience, and mitigating factors).
For further details of our admission process, read our step by step guide to postgraduate taught applications .
The deadline to apply for this course is Wednesday 18 August 2027, midday UK time.
We advise applying early as applications may close before the expected deadline if places are filled.
The deadline to apply for this course is Wednesday 4 August 2027, midday UK time.
We advise applying early as applications may close before the expected deadline if places are filled.