Experience and Transferable Skills
The core philosophy of the Entertainment Technology group is to offer a broad experience of technology, ensuring the maximum of transferable skills and meaning that graduates are ready for entry into the increasingly multi-skilled media industries. Students will all study some areas outside their particular specialism in order to enable them to understand the roles of other people within the industry – so sound students will study some video and vice versa. This approach has meant that students from the programme have become regarded as some of the most employable in the sector, giving an extremely high graduate recruitment rate. Graduating students could expect to find employment within the broadcast sector, live sound, acoustic consultancy, product development.
The first year is largely common to all titles, and all students will study both audio and video technology, and audio and video production. In addition, the students on ‘technology’ or ‘engineering’ titles such as Sound Engineering or Media Technology will study electronics, computer programming, while the ‘operational’ students (Outside Broadcast Production and Live and Studio Sound) will study live sound and operational planning.
Students on each discipline will learn to work in collaboration with students in other related areas, in much the same way that the industry operates – with, for instance, Media Technology students providing technical infrastructure and support for Outside Broadcast students when filming external events.
Facilities for the courses are extremely good, and include the department’s flagship Outside Broadcast Vehicle| – the only course in the country to have an OB to full commercial spec. Other facilities include music, radio and ADR studios all with surround playback, a TV studio, editing suite with a range of audio and video software, 
dubbing suite with HD projection and full surround sound, a 35mm cinema set up to Dolby specifications, a video laboratory, electronics and computer laboratories, and an electroacoustic testing facility.
The teaching team have a broad range of industry experience with lecturing staff having worked for major broadcasters, recording labels and manufacturers. The subject area is also one of the most research active within the university, supporting teaching with high level research and consultancy work.