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Our MA Fashion Knitwear Design course will encourage you to innovate through experimental research and practice to develop a forward-thinking and challenging approach to realise advances and new directions in fashion knitwear. Through working closely with dedicated expert academic, technical and research staff, you’ll enhance and develop new and advanced specialist knowledge and skills for knitted textiles and fashion knitwear design.
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.
Key features
– Work in our outstanding knit facilities, with access to hand flat and power knitting machines, including Shima Seiki and Stoll
– Have space to work in our dedicated postgraduate studio, alongside other MA Fashion, Textiles and Knitwear Design students
– Benefit from the professional expertise of our academic staff, researchers and visiting designers such as Orsola de Castro, Juliana Sissons, Jo Cope, David Telfer, Moxham, and Christopher Raeburn
– Work with fellow students, practitioners and academic staff from different cultures and backgrounds
– Have the opportunity to visit London and join European study trips to Florence, Antwerp and Paris
– 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
– Be selected to exhibit at New Designers in London and have an opportunity to be selected for TexSelect (formerly Texprint)
– Opt for an additional advanced research module if you’re thinking of progressing to PhD or Professional Doctorate study
– Work with fellow students, practitioners and academic staff from different cultures and backgrounds
Career prospects
This course leads to a wide range of career opportunities including:
– knitwear / knitted textiles designer
– product developer
– sourcing manager
– technologist
– buyer, merchandiser
– production manager
– trend forecasting
– styling within companies and brands.
Some graduates also use this course to support careers in teaching, lecturing, journalism and progression to MPhil or PhD study.
Recent graduates have set up their own successful businesses, or work within related careers in the fashion and textile design sector. Others have returned to their previous job with a renewed focus and enhanced career prospects.
If you are interested in starting your own creative business, the University provides start-up training and support through The Hive, our centre for entrepreneurship and enterprise.
Connections with Industry
You will have the opportunity to take up short periods of work experience, learn entrepreneurship skills through business development courses and attend events held by our Employability team and other organisations. You will also be encouraged to undertake research into fashion, textile or knitwear design companies, or appropriate contexts, for retailing or showcasing your completed project.
In addition to the main focus of your project as set out in the project proposal, you are encouraged to enter national and international competitions such as the Shima Seiki Competition, where the winner is awarded an all-expenses paid trip to the Shima Seiki headquarters in Japan for a two-week training course. Other competitions include the Redress Design Award (formerly EcoChic), Woolmark Performance Challenge and the Arts of Fashion Competition. Prestigious competitions provide you with opportunities to demonstrate and promote your creative and technical skills and ability to answer an industry brief to a global audience, that can lead to employment and press opportunities.
