We do not see ceramics and glass as a fixed set of media. We prize and celebrate diversity and breadth. We embrace connections. Our department is a site for discursive practice, where cultural, social, personal, historical and aesthetic concerns intersect. We believe that the skills of making and thinking can develop in tandem and that the made object is a vehicle for expression that can engage with the individual and society. Our students’ work covers a wide spectrum – from design for manufacture to the unique art object. All the strands contribute to each other and form a single discipline, at the core of which is material understanding.