Industry Practice
Building on Industry Foundations, this module focuses on professional development, including valuing your work and developing an understanding of contracts, rights management, and how to generate sustainable income long-term.

Sound System Theory & Application
Learn how to design, configure and optimise sound systems, exploring key areas such as speaker types/coverage, power distribution, tuning and alignment. With students from the Live Sound course, you’ll learn to work collaboratively to design, deploy and manage systems. 

Event Law & Logistics

Understand the legal and safety responsibilities and frameworks behind live event delivery. You’ll cover licensing, contracts, risk assessments, insurance and accessibility, learning how to plan responsibly, meet regulations and create safe, successful experiences for artists and audiences.

Creative Research Practice

Explore how research can inform and expand your work in live sound and events. You’ll investigate topics that matter to your practice, from audience behaviour and sustainability to event formats and cultural trends, while developing skills in critical thinking, project planning and reflective analysis that will support your final year portfolio and innovation work.

Sustainable Event Practice

Plan and deliver a live event that prioritises sustainability, ethics and social impact. You’ll explore accessible design, resource use, environmental impact and wellbeing. Gaining hands-on experience delivering purposeful, inclusive events that respond to real-world challenges.

Marketing & Promotion

Explore the principles, tools and strategies of marketing and promotion within the music industry, including social media, digital distribution, content creation, how to communicate your message and build a presence.

Integrative Performance Technologies

Experiment with creative and technical tools such as show synchronisation systems, reactive visuals, and live processing to support performances. Working individually and with performers/artists, you’ll prototype and deliver live experiences that reflect your role and specialism within contemporary event production.

Live Recording & Broadcast

Develop the technical and creative skills needed for live recording and broadcasting through an exploration of capturing high-quality audio in live environments, managing multi-track recordings and delivering real-time broadcasts.

Advanced Mixing Techniques

This module takes your live mixing skills to the next level, preparing you to take charge of complex sound environments with speed, precision, and creative control.

Innovation: Exploration

This is the beginning of your final-year innovation journey where you will challenge the conventions of your creative discipline and build on the technical, creative and research skills developed throughout your degree.

Industry Portfolio Development

Plan, shape and build a professional portfolio that reflects your creative identity, strengths, and long-term goals, researching professional expectations, exploring formats and creating a strategy tailored to your sector.

Innovation: Realisation

Realise the work completed during the Innovation: Exploration module, bringing together your technical, creative, and research skills and taking your initial idea through to a completed outcome.

Industry Portfolio Delivery

Building on the Industry Portfolio Development module, you will finalise a body of work that aligns with your professional goals and presents your skills clearly to your intended audience.

Sound Cultures

This module invites you to critically explore the cultural, social, and political dimensions of sound and music, applying research methodologies explored in Creative Research Practice.

Festival Production: Sound, Staging and Technical Design

Discover the fast-paced and collaborative world of festival production, with a focus on the advanced technical, logistical, and creative considerations required to deliver safe, high-quality environments for artists and audiences. 

Music Education & Wellbeing Practice

Investigate how music can be used in educational, therapeutic and community settings as you explore its role in supporting learning, wellbeing and social connection.

Management & Leadership in the Music Industry

This module will build your confidence, knowledge and adaptability to succeed in complex industry environments; equipping you with the professional skills needed to lead, manage and innovate in the industry.

Collaborative Creative Practice

Design, develop and deliver an original creative project in collaboration with others. You will refine your creative identity while you contribute to a shared artistic vision.

Advanced System Design & Acoustics

This module explores how sound behaves in real environments and how to design loudspeaker systems that deliver clarity and impact across a range of venues

Learning is collaborative, practical and grounded in the realities of live music production. You’ll work in event spaces, rehearsal rooms and sound labs using the same professional tools found in industry settings, from digital mixing desks and PA systems to logistics software and event planning frameworks.

Workshops, live briefs, and production simulations support your learning across sound engineering, scheduling, stage management and artist liaison. These experiences prepare you for the complex, fast-moving nature of live event delivery.

You’ll collaborate closely with students across our music degrees, including performers, producers and sound engineers. This reflects how real events are brought to life - through teamwork, creative chemistry, and shared responsibility.

Throughout the course, you’ll be encouraged to take initiative, lead aspects of production and refine your technical and organisational approaches. This emphasis on cross-disciplinary working and professional collaboration equips you for a wide range of roles in the music and live events industries.

On average you should allow for between 40 hours per week for your studies, of which approximately 25% will be taught (c.10 hours) and 75% will be self-study.