BA(Hons) Fashion Textiles

Placements

Students who get work experience tend to graduate with better degrees. Experience also hones your skills, industry knowledge and professional network, making you a sought after graduate.

Professional practice is key to this course and you'll have an opportunity to do a work placement at every level to develop your professional skills. You'll also build your network as you progress through the course and learn how to promote and position yourself, and how build a compelling portfolio to take to employers. 

If you choose the four year (sandwich) course, you'll spend a year away from the University on a work placement after Year two. Past students have completed Internships with fashion labels such as JW Anderson, Iris Van Herpen, Erdem, Vivienne Westwood and Helen Kirkham.

Get help to find your placement and support throughout from staff within the School and our award-winning careers service.

Study exchange

Broaden your perspective by taking part in our international or European exchange programme, spending a semester at one of our partner universities. Partner universities abroad.

Increase your confidence, intercultural communication skills and boost your employability.

Explore our study abroad pages to find out more.

Fieldwork

Go on regular trips to London and other major cities so you can source new materials and conduct research in galleries, museums and archives.

Visit Trade Shows, Archives and undertake In-Store visits to broaden your knowledge and inspire your creative development. 

Study facilities

Learn at our City Campus, with access to some of the best technical and creative resources in the country.

Construct garments in our industry standard sample and sewing room and develop technical skills in knit and digital embroidery. Access printed textiles rooms with facilities for screen print, dyeing, fabric manipulation, embellishment and decoration, plus digital, photo and heat transfer printing.

Experiment with materials, alternative forms and wearables in our physical making studios. Bring 2D ideas to life in our print centre, using the latest equipment for screen printing, etching, digital printing and lithography.

A mix of traditional and hands-on learning environments helps you quickly take on essential knowledge and skills, standing you in good stead for your professional career.

Learn more about UWE Bristol's facilities and resources.

Take a personalised virtual tour of the Fashion facilities and experience what a typical day could look like here for you.

Careers / Further study

You'll benefit from regular professional input from guest lecturers. Past speakers include Phoebe English, Eric Bremner, Creative Director at MaxMara; Iain Ewing, Head of Design Womenswear and Accessories at John Lewis; Jenny Postle-Cope, Womenswear Designer at Missoni; Richard Malone, Bethany Williams, Rottingdean Bazaar, Fashion East; and Frances Walker, Creative Design Consultant of Menswear at French Connection.

As well as making sure that the course reflects industry, experts come in to present and deliver live briefs. Recent collaborative partners include Phoebe English, Henri Lloyd, Cos, Shield 360 Workwear, Topshop, Mulberry and Next Sourcing.

Showcase your work at some of the UK's highest profile Graduate Events such as Graduate Fashion Week, British Fashion Council Graduate Preview Day and London Fashion Week Digital. Our degree show showcases our most exciting graduate work in art, design, filmmaking and media. We also encourage you to show work on and off-line throughout the course and will help you develop the skills to do this. See our showcase of student work from the BA(Hons) Fashion Textiles course at UWE Bristol.

Our graduates progress into three main professional contexts; industry, enterprise development or research and postgraduate study.

You could build a career with a high-profile company like Craig Green, Erdem, Superdry, H&M and Levi's in roles such as fashion designer, textile designer, garment technologist, product developer, pattern cutter or fashion buyer. Or you might choose to set up your own businesses or go onto postgraduate study and research to develop your practice.

The course is structured to enable you to realise your ambitions and shape the course in the direction you want to go in. Whatever you choose to do, our team of subject experts and careers service are there to support you.

Get inspired

Our award-winning careers service will develop your employment potential through career coaching and help find you graduate jobs, placements and global opportunities.

We can also help find local volunteering and community opportunities, provide support for entrepreneurial activity and get you access to employer events.

Visit our Graduate destinations pages to learn more about careers, employers and what our students are doing six months after graduating.

Supplementary fee information

Your overall entitlement to funding is based on how long the course is that you're registered on. Standard funding is allocated based on the standard number of years that your course lasts, plus one additional year.

You'll apply for funding each year that you study and Student Finance will take into account how long the course is in each year that you apply. So if you register for the four year course and then transfer to the three year course, the number of years you can apply for funding will change. Student Finance will reassess your funding based on how many years you have been in study, not just those years for which you received student finance.

Always seek advice before taking any action that may have implications for your funding.

Learn more about funding.

Additional costs

This refers to items you could need during your studies that aren't covered by the standard tuition fee. These could be materials, textbooks, travel, clothing, software or printing.

Learn more about costs.