MSc Creative Technologies for Live Events
MSc Creative Technologies for Live Events blends research, innovation, and ingenuity. Where high-tech meets art and design.
Explore the boundaries of your chosen area of creative technology and how this specialism influences audiences, events and is applied to artistic design projects – such as lighting, sound, video, virtual production, design, immersive technology, or system programming and control.
Why choose
this course?
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Combine creative design with technical research. You’ll develop components and materials that enhance design and arts applications while exploring advanced programming, engineering, and personal research projects.
Gain advanced technical, digital, artistic, and interpersonal skills. We’ll empower you as a problem solver, critical thinker, and creative innovator with the capacity to directly impact processes and technologies in a rapidly evolving and dynamic sector.
Surrounded by global brands and manufacturers, you’ll utilise advanced facilities and industry-leading equipment. Through hands-on experimentation, explore how cutting-edge event technology can be improved, integrated, and developed.
We equip students with the skills to create new products as well as apply existing technologies in original ways. Graduates can pursue careers as innovators and inventive technologists, directly influencing live events and the broader creative industries.
Course content
How learning is assessed on MSc Creative Technologies for Live Events
We provide students with a supportive and inclusive environment where students are challenged through praxis – applying critical thinking to practical, hands-on experimentation and reflection. Teaching uses blended learning, combining practical work with online and face-to-face lectures, seminars, tutorials, discussions, guest speakers, and masterclasses. Module assessments typically involve written coursework, project work, oral assessments, presentations and portfolios.
A significant amount of personal study time is expected to be undertaken by students, comprising, for example, background reading, online activities, assessment work and preparation for sessions.
Students are encouraged to use their continuing professional practice as part of their research process and build on our close relationships with the industry. Developing plans for new creative projects is coupled with a higher level of academic study and learning. Our approach to blended learning supports working professionals to engage flexibly with studies.
Term dates
Please see our 2025/26 academic year term dates for this postgraduate course.
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Career Opportunities
Studying MSc Creative Technologies for Live Events can lead you to careers in:
- Sound Systems Technician
- Automation Operator
- Specialist Technician
- Product Designer
- AV Technician
- Show Control & Integration Specialist
- RF Engineer
- IMAG Operator
- Mocap Engineer
Course Outcomes
This is a career-focused postgraduate degree that will support you to develop advanced knowledge and skills. The skills training is combined with project-oriented creative education and will enable you to adapt and develop your practice throughout your future career.
We’ll guide you to make clear plans as to how you will use your expertise to progress your career during the course. As a graduate of this MSc, you will be well prepared to seek employment, promotion, or become self-employed using the professional skills you’ve developed as part of the course. This qualification also forms the basis for doctoral studies if you wish to pursue a career in academia or research and development.
The programme will equip you with a range of transferable, interpersonal, and technical skills, allowing you to capitalise on career opportunities that exist in a huge range of sectors. These include live music, performing arts, multi-media sectors, gaming, TV, film, e-Sports, corporate events, and many other creative areas.
The course was an absolute game-changer for me. Coming from a sound background, studying at ALT gave me the perfect excuse to step out of my comfort zone and get hands-on with the wider world of event production. I picked up skills I could use straight away, which gave me the confidence to dive headfirst into the live events world, armed with a whole new toolkit and only a small chance of accidentally blowing something up.
Meet Eduardo - How studying a master's transformed my career path
MA Live Event Design alumni, Eduardo Bernal Perez, Eduardo discusses his transition from the world of construction into the live events industry.
Facilities
Our Production Park campus offers a range of learning spaces, including pre-visualisation studios, computer labs, classrooms, lecture theatres and breakout spaces, giving you dedicated space to learn the theory before bringing it to life with hands-on, practical experience in our industry-standard dedicated teaching studios.
Working on visuals for a student event
Working on visuals for a student event
Postgraduate project showcasing an interactive metaverse
Postgraduate project showcasing an interactive metaverse
Resolume
Resolume
LED wall and lighting set up
LED wall and lighting set up
Immersive dining experience
Immersive dining experience
Working on visuals for a student event
Working on visuals for a student event
Postgraduate project showcasing an interactive metaverse
Postgraduate project showcasing an interactive metaverse
Resolume
Resolume
LED wall and lighting set up
LED wall and lighting set up
Immersive dining experience
Immersive dining experience
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