Friday mornings online + 1 in person session
26 Sep 2025
NCAD
5
HCI Subsidy Funding Available
€600 or €300*
CFA at NCAD’s Professional Certificate in Creative Diversity, is a special intensive course. It equips learners with an awareness of equality, diversity, and inclusion within Design, such as the need to decolonise the discipline, while also providing the tools, methods and platforms to enact personal, professional and sectoral change.
The course is developed in partnership with DesignOpp and the Institute of Designers in Ireland. Students will gain understanding of race, racism and stereotyping and how it manifested in graphic design. Students will also take part in an unconscious bias training given by an industry expert (Dr Ebun Joseph, Institute of Antiracism and Black Studies in Ireland). They will also look at decolonising art; what it means and also steps needed to create change.
Students will also get their creative briefs centred around creating possible solutions to help people improve their experiences in the Direct Provision Centres in Ireland.
The programme consists of a series of lectures, case studies, activities, discussions and group work supported by workshops and toolkits.
This course is aimed at designers and creatives who wish to recognise unconscious bias, understand and implement change and embed diversity within their social networks, communities and creative practices.
The programme seeks to provide the transversal and specialist skills to equip creative practitioners to work within existing career paths, while also forge new career and creative pathways and learning.
Educational Standard
All applicants are expected to present an approved Bachelor degree at minimum level of 2nd class honours (2.2)
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) – Applicants who do not meet the minimum academic entry requirements for admission may be considered on the basis of a recognition of previous learning whether based on prior relevant experience or other relevant credited or non credited or learning (RPL). In such cases each applicant will be considered on a case-by-case basis based on a review of the applicant’s CV and other supporting documentation.
Please contact ncad@creativefutures.ie for further information.
Qualifying Examination – In certain cases the academic team may choose to set a qualifying assignment in order to assess an applicant’s suitability for admission.
You may apply for the programme if you are currently completing your Undergraduate Degree. NCAD will review the rest of your application if necessary, we can make you a Conditional Offer. When your degree is completed and you send us final transcripts we will upgrade this to a Full Offer.
Essential Supporting Documentation
Find out more HERE
There is a fee of €600 for this programme.
CFA Scholarship:
A CFA scholarship encourages the participation of learners from sections of society that are significantly under-represented in higher education by offering one free place on all of our CFA short courses.
Find out if you are eligible to apply HERE
Fill in the CFA@NCAD scholarship application form HERE
Programme Contact
Greg Osborne (DesignOpp): osborneg@staff.ncad.ie
Mic Chikanda (DesignOpp): chikandam@staff.ncad.ie
Admissions Contact
postgraduate@ncad.ie
01 636 4200
Applicants to this course are eligible for Human Capital Initiative HCI Pillar 3 Micro-Credentials Subsidy funding. The subsidy for this course is 50% of the total course costs for eligible learners. Terms & Conditions apply.
