Responsible Innovation MA

Northumbria University

United Kingdom, Newcastle upon Tyne

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Northumbria University

United Kingdom , Newcastle upon Tyne

Key Facts

Program Level

Master by Course Work

Study Type

Full Time

Delivery

On Campus

Campuses

Newcastle

Northumbria University

Program Language

English

Start & Deadlines

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Duration 1 year(s)

Tuition Fee

GBP 19,350 / year(s)

Responsible Innovation MA

About

If you’re fed-up with the way things are or the way they’re going and you want to create more hopeful futures, this course is for you, whatever your background.

You might be fed-up with wasteful lifestyles, unfair systems, cultural intolerance, harmful production and consumption cycles, who gets a say and who doesn’t, and how data is shaping our lives. On this course you will learn about these issues and many more as you undertake types of designing that aim to make positive change.

If you believe that we can change things for the better, that bright ideas and hard work can positively change lives, then this course is for you.

The knowledge and practices of different types of design, informed by social sciences, economics, politics and emerging science underpin this course. Your day-to-day will include design-led innovation, design activism, social design, relational design and participatory design channelled towards navigating the complex and tricky transitions faced by communities, enterprises, and institutions as we move towards new ecological, technological, social and political realities.

If you want to learn from world-leading experts and with real-world organisations, this course is also for you.

This is a highly practical course - you will learn through working on a range of projects with real communities, enterprises, and institutions exploring futures and their consequences. You’ll be taught by leading academics from across the disciplines. Working in multidisciplinary teams with your peers and alongside professionals from partner organisations, this Master’s course will help prepare you for future employment using design as a tool for responsible innovation and change.

Requirements

Entry Requirements

Entry Requirements 2025/26

Standard Entry

Applicants should normally have:

A minimum of a 2:2 honours degree in any discipline. Applicants with appropriate work experience and/or a relevant professional qualification will be considered.

International qualifications:

If you have studied a non UK qualification, you can see how your qualifications compare to the standard entry criteria, by selecting the country that you received the qualification in, from our country pages. Visit www.northumbria.ac.uk/yourcountry

English language requirements:

International applicants are required to have a minimum overall IELTS (Academic) score of 6.5 with 5.5 in each component (or approved equivalent*).

*The university accepts a large number of UK and International Qualifications in place of IELTS. You can find details of acceptable tests and the required grades you will need in our English Language section. Visit www.northumbria.ac.uk/englishqualifications

Career

Careers & Employability

With the rapid pace of change across sectors, we can’t know with any certainty what the jobs of the future will be. What we do know is... those who learn how to learn fast and how to apply what they learn, will be the ones who are best placed for the workplaces of the future.

By studying on this course, you will join an active community of researchers and practitioners committed to social justice and ‘more-than-human' priorities. You will develop creative research skills which will allow you to access, understand and synthesise emerging, ground-breaking new knowledge and translate this to support your design innovation projects. Through distinct design principles and practices, you will be prepared to meet the rapid pace of change, appreciate the value of plurality and confidently adapt to the dynamic shifts within society and industry.

As a graduate of the course, your CV will list strategic, responsible innovation and research projects that you have undertaken with a wide range of organisations from micro-charities to global corporations. You will be given opportunities to meet, and work with employers and employees and to build your own professional network. You will be supported to define your professional value and understand the range of roles and the impact that you can have within different kinds of organisations.

The practical nature and future-focus of the Responsible Innovation Masters course, means that upon graduation you will be ready for employment, entrepreneurship or doctoral research within many areas, such as: private, public and third sector design-led innovation, service design, social design, design for policy and many other areas where future-focused, responsible and creative action are called for.

This course was called 'Multidisciplinary Innovation' prior to 2024.