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School of Art and Media

This school encompasses a broad spectrum of subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate level, ranging from photography, film and sound arts to fashion, fine art and graphics.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive and welcoming community with agility and fluidity of thinking central to our ethos. In a city with a wealth of creative and digital enterprise, we have built strong relationships with media and arts organisations, generating exciting opportunities for students.

Courses are led by staff with contemporary industry experience who are informed by applied research, ensuring the courses are relevant and able to equip students with the skills valued by employers. Professional practice, client-based opportunities and competitions are part of each course curriculum enabling students to develop the skills necessary to enter the job market with the energy and confidence and to thrive.

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Our events are great opportunities to find out more about studying at Brighton.

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Facilities

Students benefit from specialist equipment and facilities across the school, these include:

  • Dedicated studios for art courses
  • Wood and metal workshops
  • Printmaking workshops
  • Letterpress and bookbinding rooms
  • Kilns
  • A range of knitting machines, looms, linkers and embellishers
  • Screen printing and digital printing
  • CAD CAM digital technology
  • Dye lab
  • Laser cutters
  • Photographic studios and dark rooms
  • Video recording equipment and editing suites
  • Digital production and post-production studios equipped with state-of-the-art hardware and software
  • sound-isolated recording booths and sound diffusion lab
  • Access to Mac suites - Adobe Suite Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design and Premiere.
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Educational partners

The school maintains a number of partnerships, including:

Brighton Centre for Contemporary Arts
Part of the university and based at our City campus, with an exhibition space facing onto the street, the CCA is free and open to all. It hosts world class exhibitions, projects, commissions and research by international emerging and established artists.

CINECITY Film Festival
CINECITY is a partnership between the University of Brighton, the Duke of York’s Picturehouse and Screen Archive South East. It delivers a year-round programme of film and moving image events, screenings and exhibitions and presents the annual CINECITY The Brighton Film Festival.

Screen Archive South East
This public sector moving image archive serving the south-east of England is based at our Edward Street building. Its function is to collect, preserve, research and provide access to screen material related to this region and of general relevance to the study of screen history.

Digital Catapult Centre
We are part of the Digital Catapult Centre Brighton, creating links between universities and business and focusing on projects that encourage innovation and value for real-time and location-based data – known as the Internet of Place.

International exchanges
We have student and staff exchanges with Nagoya University in Japan, Seoul National University in Korea and the Minneapolis School College of Art and Design.

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Summer shows

The University of Brighton's Summer Shows are some of the most important dates in our calendars – it is when our graduating art, design, architecture and media students exhibit their final projects.

Our campuses become a large-scale exhibition spaces, open to the public.

Find out more about our Summer Shows.

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Work with our student talent

Giving our students relevant experience is a critical component of our courses. It also provides opportunities for arts and cultural organisations. Placement students can bring many advantages to your business, whatever its size. Students are work-ready with well-developed skills, and can add real value to your projects.

Taking placement students can also be an efficient recruitment solution as you may end up offering them a permanent graduate job. This can considerably reduce your recruitment costs and efforts.

Find out more about working with our students and graduates.

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Research and enterprise

Centre for Arts and Wellbeing

Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender

Creative sound and music

Cultural informatics

Photography in practice; Photography in theory

Screen studies

Research study through the doctoral college

Our subjects

  • Fashion, textiles and 3D design
  • Film
  • Fine art
  • Journalism
  • Media
  • Photography
  • Sound and music
  • Visual communication
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Our latest news

Thinking about choosing our Music Business and Media degree?

Thinking about choosing our Music Business and Media degree?

Hear from student Kristian who says: “On the course I’ve found myself recording a podcast, conducting a brand proposal, developing a new music innovation, recording promotional videos and so much more.

Meet us at our postgraduate events

Meet us at our postgraduate events

There’s no better way to explore your future study opportunities than by meeting lecturers and researchers at a postgraduate event.

Media lecturer’s podcast becomes part of school curriculum

Media lecturer’s podcast becomes part of school curriculum

The new series of young people’s mental health podcast The Rez – produced by University of Brighton lecturer Lance Dann – is the first podcast to be accredited for teaching in schools.

Graduates 2022: Francesca Gnoato: Media Studies

Graduates 2022: Francesca Gnoato: Media Studies

“I loved my time in Brighton is a beautiful and vibrant city where to study.

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School offices

School of Art and Media
University of Brighton
58–67 Grand Parade
Brighton BN2 0JY

We also have offices in the following buildings:

Watts Building
Lewes Road
Brighton BN2 4GJ

154 Edward Street
Brighton BN2 0JG

Contacts

Phone: 01273 642478
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