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Our programmes focus on cutting-edge design practice and address some of the latest challenges and opportunities for our industries, including Sustainability, User Centred Design, and Building Information Modelling. Our international and industry-led focus provides students with opportunities to really broaden their perspectives and understand the need to deliver innovative solutions that satisfy the physical, cultural and social conditions wherever development is required.

Staff

Our departments draw on the expertise of staff with national and international reputations for their research, teaching and professional engagement.

Courses

We offer courses at undergraduate, masters and doctoral level.

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Research Centres

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CEADA

A radical reconceptualisation of teaching and research practice.

Barbara Hepworth Building

Sustainable Living Research Centre

Learn more about the University's Sustainable Living Research Centre, which explores the diversity of living experience, heritage, tourism and zero-carbon approaches.

Centre for Urban Design, Architecture and Sustainability

CUDAS

The overarching ethos of CUDAS, Architecture and Sustainability is that design informs all aspects of academic research of the built environment, whether in the historical, cultural, theoretical or environmental contexts.