Course Overview

This course is new for the entry year 2023

Develop a radical and circular approach to designing a pioneering, sustainably focused fashion system and challenge existing industry practices through ethical, regenerative and inclusive change. Through this online master's degree in Sustainable Fashion, you will gain the knowledge and skills to design the pioneering transformation needed to address the complex environmental, social, cultural and economic challenges we face throughout the fashion system.

Joining a global community of informed, visionary and collaborative change-makers, you will design innovative solutions to international and local challenges that deliver a responsible, sustainable and ethical impact on people and the planet.

By fostering a conscious mindset, you will envision new sustainable futures, question the purpose of design, develop responsible systems and assess the impact of social innovations within fashion communities.    

Unlike a traditional studio maker-based course, this Sustainable Fashion MA is designed to empower you to influence the future of fashion by developing advanced creative and systems thinking practices and to create outcomes in many forms that will affect systemic change.

You will: 

• Graduate as a pioneering fashion practitioner empowered to lead and reform the fashion industry 

• Build a deep understanding of the fashion industry in the global sustainability context and learn how to drive the changes needed to deliver positive, responsible change 

• Develop advanced knowledge of social innovation design, systems thinking and design thinking 

• Utilise creative problem-solving approaches to find strategic solutions to complex problems across design, production, and business functions 

• Seek and create diverse networks across the fashion sector 

• Develop a conscious practice that filters decision-making through a sustainable and ethical lens 

General Eligibility

An honours degree or Level 6 equivalent qualification is desirable. However, candidates without a degree or formal qualification are still encouraged to apply.

Part Time Work Details

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Language Requirement

• If English isn't your first language, you'll need to demonstrate English language skills that are sufficiently developed for the successful completion of your studies. We accept a range of recognised English language qualifications equivalent to the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Academic minimum score of 6.5 overall, with a minimum of 6.0 in Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening.