Students light Derby Cathedral
This past Sunday, 29 November, some of our 3rd year BSc (Hons) Sound, Light and Live Event students took some lighting fixtures and projectors over to Derby Cathedral to support their event, Evensong of Light: Celebrating 90 Years of Derby Cathedral. The students (with the help of our lecturers, Ben Sams and Simon Lewis)...
Read MoreAvolights visits Derby for training sessions
Avolights, one of the industry’s leading manufacturers of lighting consoles, is on site this week to provide training to our BSc (Hons) Sound, Light and Live Event Technology students. Avolights’ van pulling up to the university on Tuesday They’ve brought in a number of lighting consoles to supplement the AVO products the University currently owns...
Read MoreRoyal visit to Derby
Wednesday, 27 September was the official opening of Derby’s new STEM Centre. Within the new building our department has gained new labs covering electronics, communication technology and computing, and – most importantly – a hemi-anechoic chamber. UoD’s new hemi-anechoic chamber ready for the grand opening To officially open the building, HRH The Earl of Wessex...
Read MoreSounds in Space 2017 – watch live!
The Creative Technologies Research Cluster is holding the 8th Annual Sounds in Space Research Symposium tomorrow (Tuesday, 27 June 2017). The full event programme can be found here: http://soundsinspace.co.uk/ Sounds in Space looks at the technical and artistic details of 3D audio with a 34 speaker array driven by software developed here at the University of Derby (WigWare Ambisonic Audio...
Read MoreUniversity of Derby achieves Gold for teaching excellence
The University of Derby has been awarded Gold by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) in the country’s first ever Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), putting it in the top 20% of all providers in the UK. Based on the evidence available, the TEF Panel judged that the University of Derby delivers consistently outstanding...
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