Centre for Blended Realities

Aims & Objectives

The Centre for Blended Realities is funded through the E3 programme, which enables the Centre to: 

• Enhance research excellence: supporting high-quality, impactful research that contributes to national and international academic discourse. 

• Encourage interdisciplinary practice: fostering collaboration across disciplines, integrating creative, technological, and critical methodologies. 

• Explore the use of convergent technologies: investigating immersive, interactive, and data-driven technologies to push the boundaries of creative practice and knowledge exchange. 

• Support the extension of research culture: strengthening and expanding Falmouth’s research environment by facilitating innovative projects, collaborations, and public outputs. 

• Serve regional development and need: contributing to the economic, cultural, and social development of Cornwall and the wider South-West, ensuring research has tangible local impact. 

• Build networks and partnerships: developing strategic relationships with academic, industry, and cultural partners to amplify research opportunities and knowledge exchange. 

• Increase Falmouth’s visibility and reach: positioning the university as a key player in creative technology research, both nationally and internationally. 

Capabilities 

The Centre for Blended Realities brings together researchers, practitioners, and technologists to explore the evolving relationship between digital tools and creative expression. Through its facilities, expertise, and partnerships, the Centre is uniquely positioned to: 

• Develop and test new methodologies for immersive and interactive media, and emerging AI technologies. 
• Facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations that bridge creative arts, computing, and design. 
• Engage with regional and global stakeholders to drive innovation in the creative industries. 
• Contribute to research-informed teaching and learning at Falmouth. 
   

Our vision for CBR is that it functions not only a research centre, but as a collaborative space where new ideas, tools, and methods are interrogated in response to contemporary challenges, which reinforces Falmouth’s leadership in creative technology research. 

Research collaboration

We welcome collaboration ideas from researchers, industry and third sector organisations which explore the Research Centre's mission.

If you have a research collaboration idea and would like to discuss it with our team you can get in touch via email.

E: research@falmouth.ac.uk

Research degrees

We accept proposals for MPhil or PhD study from applicants with a project idea of their own which aligns with the aims of the Centre for Blended Realities, or as a response to one of our associated Falmouth Doctoral Project briefs below.

Find out more about the application process for MPhil or PhD study with us on our Research Degrees pages:

How to apply for a Research Degree