Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries
The Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries (CCI) offers a wide range of courses in the creative arts, media and technologies. Working in partnership with industry, we educate and support the creative professionals of the future.
Whether in fashion, design or illustration, creative writing, media studies, architecture, animation, film or computer games technology, CCI students work with highly skilled and experienced lecturers and creative professionals to develop the practical, technical and critical abilities necessary for successful creative careers.
Our students learn through creating, making and doing, and the Faculty has the latest technical facilities. Led by specialist technical teams who work in partnership with lecturers to support student's creativity, our facilities include digital, virtual and augmented reality technologies, Film, TV and Motion Capture studios, fashion, printing and photography workshops and purpose-built performing arts spaces.
Alongside the extensive study and support services offered throughout the University, CCI students benefit from the outstanding support of faculty academic and creative skills tutors and a dedicated Creative Careers team.
The Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries also enjoys outstanding success and partnership through its research and innovation activities. Through these activities, our staff and students make the creative arts, media and technologies relevant to the modern world and use creativity to address the challenges of social democracy and inclusion, health and wellbeing, and sustainability and the environment.
In collaboration with industry and through our links with leading businesses and cultural organisations, we're turning our insights into innovative and sustainable solutions to some of society's most-pressing issues.
Explore our faculty
Explore the four schools in this faculty
Teaching
Our teaching areas
Explore the undergraduate and postgraduate degrees we offer within the following areas.
Research
Our research areas
Our research groups
Much of our exceptional research takes place within the following cross-disciplinary research groups – find out more below.
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Our research feeds into the design, development, and release of commercial and free games.
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Architectural and Urban History and Theory Research Group
We focus on narratives of place and the construction of new discourses in architecture, interiors, landscape and urbanism.
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Cluster for Sustainable Cities
Our research cluster focuses on sustainable architecture, urban design, planning, social sciences, ICT and engineering.
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We're engaged in fiction, travel writing, poetry and screen writing at local, national and international levels.
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Visual Computing Research Group
We investigate solutions to understanding, reconstructing and processing affective facial and human actions and visual scenes.
Our staff

Professor Trevor William Keeble
- Job Title Dean – Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries
- Email Address trevor.keeble@port.ac.uk
- Faculty Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries

Mrs Lynne Mesher
- Job Title Associate Dean (Students)
- Email Address lynne.mesher@port.ac.uk
- Faculty Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries

Media ready expert
Professor Deborah Sugg Ryan
- Job Title Associate Dean (Research)
- Email Address deborah.suggryan@port.ac.uk
- Faculty Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor

Mr Simon Brookes
- Job Title Associate Dean (Students)
- Email Address Simon.Brookes@port.ac.uk
- Faculty Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries

Dr Bryony Whitmarsh
- Job Title Associate Dean (Global Engagement)
- Email Address ecs90518@myport.ac.uk
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor

Professor Peter Lee
- Job Title Theme Director (Security and Risk)
- Email Address peter.lee@port.ac.uk
- Faculty Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor
Contact us
To get in touch, please contact our Faculty office.
Phone: +44 (0)23 9284 5452
Email: cci-enquiries@port.ac.uk