Award will support students on two of the GSA’s world-leading Masters programmes
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Image: MDes Innovation Design graduate Akshaya Kannan presenting her project looking at how to build resilience in cities to cope with pandemics to Deputy First Minister, John Swinney, at 2018 Graduate Degree Show. The Leverhulme Trust award will support Innovation Design students and MFA students over the next 3 academic years.
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The Leverhulme Trust has awarded The Glasgow School of Art £236,000 through its Leverhulme Arts Scholarships to support bursaries for Masters students on two programmes it has been announced. The award, which covers the three academic years from 2019–20 to 2021–22, will fund fees and maintenance for three MDes Innovation Design students and support six MFA students.
Images: MFA exhibition at 2018 Degree Show
“We are grateful to the Leverhulme Trust for this latest grant which will support students on two of our world-leading Masters programmes for the next three academic years,”says Professor Irene McAra-McWillam, Director of The Glasgow School of Art. “The Leverhulme Trust has been a very generous supporter of The Glasgow School of Art for many years. This latest grant will help fund students working at the cutting edge of Innovation Design, as well as the latest cohort of students on the MFA programme, five alumni of which have won the prestigious Turner Prize in recent years.”
The bursaries will be open to any student applying to study on the two programmes.
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MDes in Innovation Design
As the role of design, and the designer, within contemporary society continues to develop, so too does the nature and purpose of design practice. Design is not only an industrial or production-focused occupation; it is also becoming a critical tool for future-casting. The Glasgow School of Art runs six one-year Masters programmes covering different aspects of Innovation Design: Design Innovation & Citizenship, Design Innovation & Environmental Designand Design Innovation & Service Designwhich are taught in Glasgow, and Design Innovation & Collaborative Creativity,Design Innovation & Interaction Designand Design Innovation & Transformation Designwhich are taught at the GSA’s Highlands and Islands campus in Forres.
MFA
The Master of Fine Art at the GSA has produced no fewer than five Turner Prize winners in recent years (Simon Starling, Richard Wright, Martin Boyce, Duncan Campbell and Charlotte Podger). A two-year, multidisciplinary programme: both of these fundamental facts are significant. A two-year programme of study offers students an extraordinary opportunity to analyse their studio practice in depth, and to modify, develop and secure it accordingly. The multidisciplinary context also ensures that such developments are protected against narrowly defined ambitions.
The Leverhulme Trust
The Leverhulme Trust was established by the Will of William Hesketh Lever, the founder of Lever Brothers. Since 1925 the Trust has provided grants and scholarships for research and education. Today, it is one of the largest all-subject providers of research funding in the UK, distributing approximately £80m a year. For more information about the Trust, please visit www.leverhulme.ac.uk and follow the Trust on Twitter @LeverhulmeTrust
