Nicola Salkeld

Senior Lecturer / Course Co-ordinator (Stage 1)

Nicola is one half of MOTH, which is a research project, that investigates the skills and contributions communication designers can make to death studies and end of life experiences. Working across a number of applied projects with a broad range of partners and practitioners; (academics, medics, artists, experience designers, historians , philosophers, sociologist, curators, writers and students). Moth has focused on both design practice within pedagogy as well as applied innovation of products and events. It aims to challenge attitudes, conventions and context surrounding death and dying.  

 

Nicola joined Falmouth in 2006 and works across all three undergrad years. She is an External examiner for UAL from 2020.

External Links

Contact details

Telephone 01326 213727
Email nicola.salkeld@falmouth.ac.uk
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    Qualifications

    Qualifications

    Year Qualification Awarding body
    1995 MA Royal College of Art
    2005 Level 4 Teaching Qualification FE Stage 2 City & Guilds
    1990 BA(Hons) Central St Martins School of Art and Design

    Honors and awards

    Year Description
    2001

    ILT Membership
    1995

    The Chris Garham Memorial Prize for Photography
    1995

    The Bankers Pyramid Trust Award - New Business BUMP design
    1995

    The Brian Robb Italian Travel Prize
    1994

    The Painters & Stainers Prize RCA

    Membership of external committees

    ILT

    Research Interests

    Research interests and expertise

    Moth Death & Dying
     
    • Opening windows for meaningful conversation, communication and connection.
    • Promoting a sense of well-being, reduced anxiety (through empowerment).
    • Creating a sense of achievement and legacy.
    • Facilitiating a place for creative exchange and contribution.
    • Advocacy for mourning. Acceptance of sadness is a natural and necessary part of a maturing process, reducing stress, anxiety and depression in the surviving relatives.
    • Recognising that the purpose of grief is not to move on without those one who have died, but to find a secure place for them and that recounting the life of the deceased is not just a secular alternative to religious ritual, but a social-psychological necessity.

    Research Topics

    • Graphic Design
    • Graphic Transcription and Forensics
    • Image Making
    • MOTH Death & Design

    Research Outputs

    Publications and research outputs

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, (2023), Moth: Design for Life & Death An Extra Place at the Table Haunted Landscapes: Nature, Super-Nature, and Global Environments. Conference: Falmouth University, 4-6 July 2023, In: Haunted Landscapes: Nature, Super-Nature, and Global Environments, 4 6 July 2023, Falmouth University, (Unpublished)

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, (2022), MOTH_DESIGN_FOR LIFE AND DEATH. Death & Culture IV.Thursday 8 September 2022, 9.00AM to 09 September. York University., In: Death & Culture IV_DaCNet, 08-09 Sept 2022, York University.

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, Death Positive Library, Diane James the Blue Cross Pet Bereavement Support Service and Julie-Marie Strange, Professor of Modern British History Durham University, (2021), How to cope with the grief and loss of a pet, In: How to cope with the grief and loss of a pet, 12 October 2021, Online event

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, Dr Julie-Marie Strange Professor of Modern British History Durham University, Diane James (Blue Cross) - Supporting the bereaved pet owner, Zoe Belshaw (PDSA) - Euthanasia and pet bereavement from a veterinary perspective, Nikki Salkeld & Ashley Rudolph (MOTH design collective, Falmouth University) - Saying Goodbye to Dr Tinkle: Helping Children Navigate Pet Bereavement, Kevin Spurgeon (Dignity Pet Crematorium) - Practice and Perception: Pet Remains and Memorialisation and Rowenna Baldwin - Award winning director of film 'Goodnight Friend', (2020), The Goodbye Box and story/advice book, ‘Saying Goodbye to Dr Tinkle’ has been developed by MOTH as an aid to help children and adults cope with bereavement., In: When Pets Pass On, 9 September 2020, Online, (Unpublished)

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, Dr Julie-Marie Strange Professor of Modern British History Durham University, Dian James Blue Cross, Rowenna Baldwin Film Maker, Diane James Blue Cross, Kevin Spurgeon (Dignity Pet Crematorium) and Zoe Belshaw (VET PDSA), (2020), When Pets Pass On: Sharing Good Practice in Pet Bereavement by Blue Cross, In: When Pets Pass On: Sharing Good Practice in Pet Bereavement, 9 Sept 2020, online

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, (2020), Dying.dialogues Jan 24 - Jan 25 2020 ‘Dying.dialogues’ is a symposium on design for end-of-life with collaborators from the Health Design Studio at OCADU Toronto and Taboo Health., In: Dying Dialogues & Design TO Festival, 24.01.20-26 01.20, Health Design & Faculty of Design OCAD UNIVERSITY 100 McCaul Street, Toronto, Canada M5T 1W1 www.ocadu.ca, pp. 1-16, (Unpublished), Item availability may be restricted.

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, (2018), Good Grief: Collections, Classification & Curation. Ars Moriendi: The Art of Dying (well)& Magical Thinking., In: DaCNet Death and Culture II conference, 06-07 Sept 2018, SOCD Falmouth University, (Unpublished)

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, Dr Mark Taubert Dr. Mark Taubert Clinical Director/Consultant in Palliative Medicine Velindre NHS Trust, Cardiff,, Ben James Jotta Design and Anna Kiernan Senior Lecturer in Writing Falmouth University, (2017), Moth Project: Four Deadlines & a Dinner/TALKCPR Bevan Commission Annual Conference 2017/18, In: Moth Project: Four Deadlines & a Dinner/TALKCPR Bevan Commission Annual Conference 2017/18, 14 09 17, Falmouth University

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, (2015), One day symposium Graphic Designers Research, In: One day symposium Graphic Designers Research, Nov 2015, Falmouth University

    • Jenkins, Jessica and The School of Communication Design

      (2015), One day symposium Graphic Designers Research, In: One day symposium Graphic Designers Research, 20th November 2015, Falmouth University

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, (2015), CDAS Conference 2015: Death and its Futures: • envision 21st century futures of death, dying and bereavement, e.g. predicted trends, scenarios to be avoided, future living and dying that we and our descendants can embrace • radically re-think end-of-life policies and practices • set out future research agendas • showcase innovative research, teaching, practice, or public engagement, In: Death and its Futures, May 2015, Bath University

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, (2015), CDAS Conference 2015: Death and its Futures:, In: Death and its Futures, 05-06 June 2015, Bath University, Item availability may be restricted.

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, (2014), Type Workshop 2: UnDead Type, In: Type Workshop 2: UnDead Type, 14 March 2014, Falmouth University

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, (2013), 'Malady and Mortality' Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture, In: 'Malady and Mortality' Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle Upon Tyne UK, pp. 229-244, ISBN: 978-1-4438-9010-6

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, (2013), Malady and Mortality: Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture, In: Malady & Mortality, 19 Sept 2013, Falmouth University, Item availability may be restricted.

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, Dr Julie-Marie Strange Durham University and Diane James Blue Cross Pet Bereavement service, (2023), Pet Loss Network, Durham University

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, (2021), Moth: Design for Life & Death: The Goodbye Box and Saying Goodbye to Mr Jim, In: Dark Economies - Anxious Futures, Fearful Pasts. Falmouth University, 21st – 23rd July 2021, 21-23 July 2021, Falmouth University

    • Rudolph, Ashley

      Salkeld, Nicola, (2020), MOTH: Death and Design

    • Whelan, Gregg and Tuukkanen, Johanna Tuukkanen

      (2019), ANTI Contemporary Art Festival 2019: Death, In: ANTI Contemporary Arts Festival 2019: Death, 10-15/09/2019, Kuopio, Finland

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, (2019), In The Face of Death / The Art of Dying. ANTI International Contemporary Art Festival Kuopio, Finland., In: ANTI International Contemporary Art Festival. In The Face of Death, Sept 2019 10-15th, Kuopio, Finland.

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, (2017), STUFF, In: STUFF Moth, 30 Jan 2017 (on going), Falmouth University, Item availability may be restricted.

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, Willow, Lucy and Falmouth Art Gallery, (2014), Memento Mori, In: Memento Mori, 15 May 2015, Falmouth Art Gallery

    • Salkeld, Nicola and Prins, Jez

      (2011), 26 Flavours of Cornwall, In: 26 Flavours of Cornwall, July 2011, Trebah Garden, Cornwall

    • Rudolph, Ashley

      Salkeld, Nicola and Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (2016), Design of Death, In: Malady and Mortality' Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle Upon Tyne UK, pp. 229-244, ISBN: 978-1-4438-9010-6

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, (2016), MOTH

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, Bufler, Stefan, Wörgötter, Michael, Graphic Design, The School of Communication, Falmouth University, Corporate Branding and Identity Design, Augsburg University of Applied Sciences and Typographic Design, Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, (2016), In The Face of Death, In: In the Face of Death - Exhibition, December 2015 - February 2016, School of Communication Design, Falmouth University

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, orporate Branding and Identity Design Augsburg University of Applied Sciences and Typographic Design, Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, (2015), In The Face of Death, In: In The Face of Death, 08 Jan 2016, Falmouth University

    • Salkeld, Nicola

      Rudolph, Ashley, (2016), MOTH Talks: In the Face of Death, In: MOTH Talks, 8th January 2016, Falmouth University

    • Jenkins, Jessica

      (2015), Graphic Designers Research | Falmouth University | Nov 20th 2015. Concept and Curation: Dr. Jessica Jenkins, Falmouth University, School of Communication.

    Events

    2013

    Malady and Mortality: Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture

    Events

    2001

    On Paper: Crafts Council Exhibition & Catalogue. 2001 Inside Cover: 20 Designers Books / ‘Space Hotel’. Published by Salter Baxter Inside Cover Exhibition: 20 Designers Books / ‘Space Hotel’. Published by Salter Baxter. Touring Exhibition of Inside Cover: London, Edinbururgh, Halifax Museum van het Boek, The Hague The Centre for British Art, Yale, Connecticut. Printed Matter, New York Galerie Graphes, Paris Centre des Livres, Sait-Yrieix-La-Preche France Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin

    Events

    2019

    Paper. The 14th International Conference on the Social Context of Death, Dying, and Disposal. (DDD14) CDAS UNIVERSITY OF BATH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE.

    Events

    2018

    Paper. Death & Culture II. DaCNet University of York. Conference paper.

    Events

    2016

    In The face of Death. MOTH Symposium - Dr Stephen Cave Executive Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. University of Cambridge. - Dr Tony Walter. Professor of Death Studies / Director of University of Baths Centre for Death & Society. - Joe Macleod. Closure Experience designer. - Lucy Willow Artist and SL Fine Art Falmouth University. Founder of Café Morte. -Mercedes Kemp Associate Director of Community and Research for WildWorks, Theatre. SL Critical and Cultural studies.

    Events

    2016

    Paper. Graphic Designers Research Symposium. Falmouth University SOCD- Design Research practice: spanning theory, practice, history and the profession. - Moth: Ashley Rudolph & Nicola Salkeld - Dr Rathna Ramanathan Head of Communication Design RCA - Jeremy Aynsley Professor of Design History Brighton - Craig Oldham Designer and Writer - Dr. Rebecca Ross. Profession. Course Leader, MA Graphic Communication Design CSM. UAL - John L. Walters. Eye editor / co-owner - Alice Twemlow, Design critic, historian and founding chair of the Department of Design Research, Writing & Criticism at the SVA (School of Visual Arts) in New York.

    Events

    2015

    Paper. Death and Its Futures. University of Bath CDAS. Paper.

    Events

    2017

    MOTH STUFF: A series of Collections (30 Exhibitors): Objects and artifacts as triggers for hidden memory, micro/macro, parts and whole, constructing and de-constructing, a passion for ‘rejects’ and fragments. SOCD Falmouth University. 2017 STUFF_A Novel in 25 Words. SOCD Falmouth University.

    Events

    2018

    NHS @ 70. The Hearth Gallery, Exhibition, University Hospital Llandough. Penlan Road, Llandough.

    Events

    2014

    Memento Mori: Falmouth Art Gallery. Discourse around death and dying and end of life matters: 2014

    Events

    2006

    National Maritime Museum + ING Bank. re:Inventing

    Events

    2019

    ANTI – International Contemporary Art Festival Kuopio, Finland. http://antifestival.com/ MOTH PROJECT

    Teaching

    Courses taught

    • Graphic Design BA(Hons)