Course summary

With more than 30 years’ experience and an international reputation for excellence in fashion knitwear design, we will support you through flexible and responsive teaching and learning, helping you to explore and challenge the limits of fashion knitwear design. Our MA Fashion, Textiles and Knitwear courses provide a platform for diverse and creative thinking and design practice to challenge and drive the future of fashion and textiles. This will be your opportunity to think and do creatively, as be agents of change, to be innovative, take risks, to explore and solve problems. We encourage a personalised approach to practice and theory that takes account of social, political, environmental, and technological issues, from local and global perspectives. A critical approach to notions of progress encouraging a deeper understanding of craft, traditional and digital practices, and wider technological developments. Modules include:

• Culture and Collaboration

• Situating your Practice

• Innovation in Fashion Knitwear Practice

• Professional Futures

• Advancing Research Design

• Be selected to exhibit at New Designers in London and you may be selected for TexSelect (formerly Texprint)/. Subject to government guidelines, you may have the opportunity to visit London and join optional European study trips to Florence, Antwerp and Paris.

• You will have the opportunity to apply for specialist bursaries including ‘The Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters’ and sponsorship of yarns through links with industry and individual networking opportunities.

• Opt for an additional advanced research module if you’re thinking of progressing to PhD or Professional Doctorate study.

• 83% of NTU's research submitted to the 'Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory' Unit of Assessment was assessed to be world-leading or internationally excellent in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.