PgCert Creative Education
Start date: January 2027
Course length: 1 year (part time)
Study time: 600 learning hours (including taught sessions) or about 12 study hours a week
Applications open: Monday 1 June 2026
Apply by: Friday 18 September 2026 (12 noon)
Course overview
This course is open to UAL staff who teach and/or support student learning within the University. The PgCert Creative Education is designed to be relevant, useful and intellectually stimulating for those who are developing a relatively new education practice, as well as participants with more experience.
You will encounter the work of key thinkers in creative education and seek out pedagogic research from your own specific discipline/practice context. You will use this to critically evaluate and develop your practice through reflection, collaboration with peers and engaging in experimentation and innovation.
Professional recognition
The PgCert is accredited by Advance HE to Descriptor 2 of the Professional Standards Framework (PSF) 2023. This means that when you successfully complete the course you will also gain Advance HE Fellowship (FHEA) which provides you with international recognition of your education practice. Fellowship demonstrates a personal and institutional commitment to professionalism in learning and teaching in higher education, and an understanding of how inclusive and effective approaches to teaching and/or supporting learning contribute to high quality student learning.
Course units
Unit 1: Creative Education Contexts
Introducing the contexts that inform contemporary creative higher education. You will develop understanding of theories of student learning within these contexts to inform and enhance your education practice.
Unit 2: Inclusive Education Design
Provides practical opportunities to design and plan inclusive and effective learning activities and curricula. You will encounter a range of models of curriculum design and evaluate and apply them to your own context.
Unit 3: Challenge-based Innovation
Guided by principles of climate, racial and social justice, you will identify a question or challenge within your educational practice. After engaging with relevant scholarship of teaching and learning you will develop and implement a small-scale intervention in your context and evaluate its effectiveness.
Course team
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Image courtesy of Steph Fuller
Steph Fuller
Course Leader Creative Education
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Kwame Baah
Kwame Baah
Senior Lecturer Creative Education
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Rachel Marsden
Rachel Marsden
Senior Lecturer Creative Education
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Carys Kennedy | Photography by James Hopkins
Carys Kennedy
Senior Lecturer Creative Education
Learning and teaching methods
- seminars, workshops, tutorials and group discussions
- peer learning and collaborative exchange
- peer observation and feedback activities
- online and in-person learning experiences
- independent study and reflective practice.
Mode of study
- part-time
- 60 credits
- level 7
- 3 units over 3 terms
- typically completed in 1 year
- progression route to MA Creative Education.
Entry requirements and how to apply
Applicants must currently be employed at UAL and be contracted for a minimum of 60 hours of teaching or supporting student learning for the year/s in which they intend to study the PgCert. This can include a range of education practices such as teaching, technical teaching, assessment, supervision, demonstrating, providing feedback, providing guidance to students, and developing materials.
Alumni case studies
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Image courtesy of Sat Sehmbey
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Image courtesy of Jack Perry
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Sketchbook of Courtney Burnan, BA (Hons) Fashion Imaging and Illustration, London College of Fashion. Photo: Alys Tomlinson