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School of Arts

Explore your passions and engage your creative skills.

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Shape your creative future

The School of Arts at Oxford Brookes University brings together filmmakers, fine artists, graphic designers, musicians, photographers, journalists, publishers and beyond to form an inspiring, dynamic community of creatives.

We cultivate a collaborative and exploratory approach to what we do. We are home to a hub of research. From across art, music, publishing, digital media and film, our researchers are engaged in practice-based, digital, theoretical and archival research. The School of Art has been recognised for its research into areas such as audience and reception studies, sonic art, musicology, film theory and fine art.

The School of Arts is proud to have a strong partnership with Modern Art Oxford. The partnership places an emphasis on diversity and access to participation and professional development opportunities within the creative sector. A range of initiatives including an internship scheme for Oxford Brookes BA Fine Art students provides a platform for the next generation of creative professionals.

New School of Arts building exterior
New School of Arts building

Explore our courses

Our undergraduate and postgraduate courses combine academic rigour with creative practice to cultivate and expand your interests. They are designed to help you shape your own practice or career, and they nurture and build independent thinkers who think critically and produce innovative work. School of Arts students at Oxford Brookes are well placed to pursue a variety of careers in the creative industries.

Art, Design and Media

Art, Design & Media

Digital Media Production, Film, Fine Art, Graphic Design, Photography, and Foundation Art and Design

Communication, Media, Journalism and Publishing

Communication, Media, Journalism & Publishing

Media, Journalism, Publishing and Journalism

Dedicated studio spaces

We have dedicated art studio spaces, support and resources for woodworking, welding, vacuum forming, glass forming, casting and ceramics. Fine Art students receive a dedicated individual studio space scaled to meet your creative needs, accessible 24 hours a day during term time. Our specialist media studios are equipped for video and sound editing, Mac suite for design, Dolby Atmos 4k digital cinema, laser cutters, 3D printers, virtual reality (VR), motion capture suite and augmented reality (AR).

Connected to industry

The School of Arts offers students exceptional connections to the creative industries, ensuring they are well prepared for the professional world. Our close partnerships with leading organisations in the creative, media, and publishing sectors provide students with valuable networking opportunities and industry insights. 

Whether through our dynamic research groups, collaborations with media professionals, or industry-driven projects, students benefit from direct access to the latest industry trends and practices. This unique connection to the creative sector enables students to gain hands-on experience, build crucial industry relationships, and graduate ready to thrive in their chosen fields.

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Brookes Creative

Brookes Creative is the School of Arts new provision to support and grow our professional network with the Creative Industries for the benefit of students, staff and our external partners.

It is the conduit for connecting businesses and organisations with innovative creative students and staff, from our diverse portfolio of disciplines, who are looking to build their careers alongside their studies. Brookes Creative has a mission to ensure students from all walks of life are given equal opportunities to engage with professional experiences that will enhance their skills, knowledge and employability, whilst providing organisations with fresh new talent.

Brookes Creative

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Research

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The School of Arts provides a vibrant environment for staff and students to develop their research and is committed to building research excellence by nurturing existing and emerging strengths.

The School Centre of Research in the Arts (CoRA) has researchers engaged in practice-based research, and theoretical and archival research across the fields of Art & Design, Digital Media, Film, Music, Photography and Publishing.

We have a series of research groups across all disciplines, where staff engage with and share their research projects.

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School of Arts

Email tde-arts-enquiry@brookes.ac.uk