With access to specialist technical staff, you’ll have the opportunity to harness a host of design processes and investigate different materials, including metal, plastic, silicon, wood and ceramics. Through intensive technical workshops in a fully equipped facility you’ll gain the opportunity to learn, in your own dedicated workspace, how to develop and realise your ideas and designs. You’ll analyse creative ideas about jewellery, investigating relationships between jewellery and applied arts, design, fashion and fine art practice. Individual and collaborative work will allow you to explore diverse ways of approaching the design process and producing ambitious, creative and individual work. In the second year, you’ll be involved in live projects and competitions, and in the third year the course participates in the New Designers exhibition in London. Our Rochester campus is just a 40-minute train ride from London, giving you easy access to one of the most diverse creative cities in the world – densely populated by future clients, employers and commissioning agencies.

Our Contemporary Jewellery graduates have progressed to a variety of professional roles, including designing, buying, gallery work, marketing, retailing, production, teaching and self-employment, whilst others have chosen to embark on postgraduate study.