Our year in stories: 2024
16 December 2024
As 2024 comes to a close, we want to take a moment to celebrate the achievements of our community this year. From international award wins to pioneering research, game releases to product launches - and even working with Queen Camilla - it's been a year worth celebrating.
The year's top stories
Falmouth University receives £7m research funding award
16 January 2024
Falmouth University has received £7m Expanding Excellence in England (E3) Research England funding...
Launchpad Futures: Falmouth University's project to drive business growth in Cornwall starts new chapter
15 January 2024
Falmouth University's venture studio and incubator, Launchpad, is evolving and starting an exciting ...
Falmouth University makes The Princeton Review list of Top 50 undergraduate schools for Game Design 2024
28 March 2024
Falmouth has been ranked 17th in The Princeton Review's list of the Top 50 Undergraduate Schools for...
Student highlights
Introducing Olly the Octopus: giving (eight) helping hands to The NHS
01 November 2024
A cheery blue octopus with sturdy tentacles to hold IV drip bags is making waves at Royal Cornwall H...
Why Mums Don't Jump: the student animated film breaking health taboos
18 October 2024
The animated short film Why Mums Don’t Jump (2023) made by students at Falmouth University h...
Illustration student embarks on placement year at Disney+
10 July 2024
Illustration BA student Rhea Haynes has started an exciting new position as a Creative Intern at Dis...
Students get their game featured by The Rookies
08 August 2024
Eleven Games Academy graduates have gained recognition for their new game, Petal, from the industry ...
Students scoop six Pencils at D&AD Awards 2024
05 July 2024
Six student projects have scooped Pencils in this year’s D&AD New Blood Awards
Online Creative Events Management students get hands-on experience in festival accessibility
26 July 2024
Creative Events Management MA (Online) students have gained invaluable experience in festivals and ...
Staff highlights
Animation lecturer’s work for Star Wars: Visions shortlisted for international award
04 July 2024
Laurie Sitzia, lecturer on BA Animation, was nominated for the Best Character Animation TV/Media awa...
Zenande, Sinawe, Zinathi and Buhle at Sea Point Pavilion, Cape Town, South Africa. Photo: Michelle Sank
Photography tutor wins Sony World Photography award
18 March 2024
Michelle Sank, a photographer and online tutor on Falmouth’s Photography MA (Online) course, has w...
Mohini Chandra, 'Imaginary Edens/Photos of my Father' in 'Entangled Pasts, 1768-now', Royal Academy, London, 2024
Falmouth artists feature in Royal Academy of Arts exhibition on art, colonialism and change
24 April 2024
Works by esteemed Falmouth alumnus and Fellow Hew Locke OBE and Fine Art MA (Online) Module Leader D...
The Severed Sun set for world premiere at Fantastic Fest
Falmouth lecturers have online lectures published on platform for neurodivergent students
15 October 2024
Joel Ferguson and Lucy Cokes have had their online lectures published on free reading platform LEO w...
Finding a path for applying AI to creative practice
31 October 2024
As a creative person, specifically, a filmmaker who aligns herself with artistic and experimental mo...
Graduate highlights
Journalism graduate’s cancer documentary wins short film award at Cannes
17 December 2024
Journalism and Creative Writing BA graduate Tavie Carey’s compelling documentary won the best shor...
Credit: Oliver Holmes
From CHANEL to Queen Camilla: a catch-up with Textile Design graduate Beth Somerville
10 December 2024
2023 was a big year for Textile Design BA (Hons) graduate Beth Somerville. From being named overall ...
Product Design graduate Will Falch-Lovesey on his innovative seaweed-based pregnancy test kit
08 November 2024
Graduate Will Falch-Lovesey initially joined the Sustainable Product Design course at Falmouth with ...
Acting graduate stars in new Edinburgh Fringe show
14 August 2024
Acting BA graduate Piers MacKenzie began his run portraying Daniel Radcliffe in Joshua Kaplan’s TE...
Ant Jackson: from Creative Advertising MA to national supermarket tagline
01 August 2024
After feeling unfulfilled as an in-house marketing manager in 2014, Ant Jackson followed her creativ...
Graduate's seaweed plastic documentary wins recognition at international film festival
15 October 2024
Television & Film Production BA(Hons) graduate Olaf Lawrence’s documentary about seaweed plastics ...
Falmouth Alumni Studio 316 Unveil New Game: Post Apocalypse Courier Service
11 October 2024
Studio 316, a game development studio founded by graduates of the Games Academy via Launchpad, has a...
Falmouth graduate shortlisted for top illustration award
18 July 2024
Recent Illustration MA graduate Jasmine Hortop’s ‘artivism’ piece has been longlisted for a pr...
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