Postgraduate Certificate MA / MSc Creative Industries Futures Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Industries Futures

It enables industry professionals, graduates, academics and creatives to construct a space for knowledge exchange that spans the boundaries of academic, professional, cultural, socio-economic, ethical, and pedagogical practices.

At the heart of our course is the desire to embed industry professional practice and frameworks that allow you to develop as an industry professional and recognise and map all of the skills that you gain through your experiences.

The structure of our course provides the opportunity to explore, analyse, critically review, innovate, incubate, and distribute information about your role within the creative industries.

A Tailored Learning Journey

Whether you are currently working, a self-employed professional or a recent graduate, by studying on our Postgraduate Certificate Programme, you will have the opportunity to review, improve and benchmark your current level of professional knowledge and skills, using a relevant professional framework, with the support of a peer learning community.

Throughout your time on the course, your tutors will help you develop the tools needed to evidence your consistent high level of creative practice or enterprise, deepening your self-awareness and critical reflective practice.

Everyone is bound to discover gaps in their knowledge and skills, and you will assess your own skillset and use this to engage in continuing professional development throughout your time on the course. This includes the opportunity to engage in peer-to-peer learning, collaborative projects and exchanging ideas, experiences and thought leadership with a peer group of senior academics, professionals and graduates.

How the Course Works

Postgraduate Certificate Option

For anyone on the traditional PGCert Route, you will select the most relevant professional framework and use this to personalise the professional development activities that you engage with whilst studying on this course.

This online course runs over 1 term on weekday evenings.

Postgraduate Certificate (CLOCK Route)

CLOCK and ACM have launched an online Bootcamp-style Master’s in Creative Industries Futures for Professional Practitioners with at least 5 years’ experience in the creative, culture, craft or digital creative sectors in employment, self-employment or running an SME.

You will need to undertake and achieve the CLOCK Sector Expert Award to apply for this programme. If you already hold a CLOCK Sector Expert Award, you can convert your CLOCK portfolio into the ACM Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Industries Futures in just 3 mentoring sessions for a fee of £1100. The Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Industries Futures is worth 60 credits at Level 7 in the UK, which is equivalent to 30 ECTS at Level 7 in Europe and can be recognised through organisations such as ENIC or NARIC across other territories.

The PostGraduate Certificate in Creative Industries Futures will enable you to access the full Master’s programme and ‘top up’ your credits to gain the full Master’s in Creative Industries Futures via CLOCK’s online International Professional Practitioners’ Bootcamps.

As a CLOCK Sector Expert registered on the Master’s in Creative Industries Futures (CLOCK version), you will be engaged online in intensive, immersive bootcamps with other international professional practitioners working through the ‘top-up’ programme modules. These modules will start in the following sequence:

• ‘Ideas into Action’ (30 credits UK /15 ECTS)
• ‘Applied Research’ (60 credits UK/30 ECTS)
• ‘Making Connections, Building Communities’ (30 credits UK /15 ECTS)

Professional Practitioners with at least 5 years professional experience but without relevant formal qualifications who wish to access the full Master’s in October 2026 or January 2027 can achieve the CLOCK Sector Expert Award between August-September 2026 (October entry )and between October-November 2026 (January 2027 entry). For more details about these CLOCK Sector Expert bootcamps, please email info@clockyourskills.com

CLOCK Sector Experts who are UK residents and meet the criteria for the postgraduate loan must register for the Master’s programme before the ACM registration deadline to be eligible for the UK postgraduate loan.