UCA Media & Journalism by University for the Creative Arts

Media & Journalism

Kemi Lawrence – BA (Hons) Fashion Journalism UCA Epsom

Gulem Eza & Stela Jonikaite – BA (Hons) Advertising UCA Farnham

Foreword

As the number one specialist creative university in The Guardian Good University Guide 2018 and the Complete University Guide 2018, we deliver cutting-edge courses that will give you the skills and expertise you need to start your creative career. Our Media and Journalism courses are often taught in small groups and with a more creative angle than traditional degree courses.

You’ll be taught by our knowledgeable lecturers who’ll get to know you and your interests quickly, many of whom have worked for the likes of BBC Radio, LBC, The Guardian and some of Britain’s largest magazine publishers. You can draw on expertise from specialists in areas such as photography and film to enhance your projects, as well as fellow UCA students on other courses, who provide a rich source of collaborative opportunity. You’ll learn skills in a very hands-on environment, working on live briefs and newsroom simulations that give you industry experience before you graduate. There are many opportunities to undertake internships and placements at big names in the industry – connections include Private Eye, BBC Watchdog, Kerrang! Magazine, Athletics Weekly, Sky News and NME, to name just a few. We run a wide range of trips – recently our students visited BBC Radio Surrey, ITN, BT Sport and the Houses of Parliament – and invite regular guest speakers on specific courses to keep tuition varied. We also provide many chances to network and get your foot in the door of a very competitive industry. We’ll encourage you to aim high – our students have secured interviews with household names, such as Jessica Ennis-Hill, Mo Farah and Jonny Wilkinson. We believe that your drive will help you achieve great things – many of our graduates now work in newspaper, television, online, music, PR and media industries all over the world. We have a great range of programmes in the field – you’ll learn how to develop strategies to engage audiences through different media platforms, as well as strengthening your skills as a creative thinker, effective writer and confident producer. All of these techniques will be taught in a fast-paced environment that simulates the excitement of the media industry.

Plamen Dimitrov – BA (Hons) Television Production Maidstone Studios

Sarah Jeans Head of School Film, Media and Performing Arts

Find the right course for you

We offer a wide variety of media & journalism courses.

BA (Hons) Advertising – UCA Farnham

BA (Hons) Fashion Journalism – UCA Epsom

Taught by highly experienced practitioners with connections to the highest levels of the industry, our Advertising course offers you a unique opportunity to blend academic excellence with professional experience. Supported by some of the world’s bestknown creative directors – including Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK – our course continues to develop a mentoring scheme, giving you the chance to enter advertising better prepared than other graduates.

Fashion journalists communicate breaking news, future trends and industry issues to the public. Whether reporting from a front seat at a fashion show, interviewing a celebrity in a new retail campaign or uncovering what really happens in sweatshops in the developing world, the life of a fashion journalist is stimulating and fast-paced.

By the end of the course, you’ll have built your own unique book of holistic ad campaigns, showcasing high levels of creativity in art direction and copywriting, as well as digital media. With our comprehensive curriculum, you’ll learn how to tackle challenging briefs both creatively and strategically, whilst developing a deep understanding of theory and its application in practice.

This dynamic and highly creative course encourages you to explore the vast landscape of fashion and lifestyle media, whilst equipping you with the journalistic skills needed to become a versatile and creative fashion communicator. This course’s unique philosophy revolves around the idea of the voice – training and finding the voice in Year 1, developing and widening that voice in Year 2, and expressing and promoting each voice’s unique attributes in Year 3.

BA (Hons) Journalism & Media Production – UCA Farnham Working in our state-of-the-art studios, you’ll be taught by industry professionals, learning the essential journalistic skills sought by the world’s biggest media organisations as well as the technical skills to match. You’ll work to live briefs through newsroom simulations, and by the time you graduate, you’ll have had first-hand experience of working in professional arenas, helping you to get a foot in the door of a very competitive profession. Whether you seek a career in TV, radio, print or online, you’ll have the dexterity for all areas of the industry to tell compelling stories to a multi-platform audience. Graduates have gone on to work in some of the biggest names in media and journalism such as BBC Five Live, Channel 4, The Times, Reuters, and the Press Association.

BA (Hons) Music Journalism – UCA Epsom This course is designed to transform music lovers into confident media professionals. With its emphasis on multi-platform content creation, the course encourages students to find innovative ways of sourcing, creating and publishing material across print, online, video and radio.

helping you to develop an invaluable network of industry contacts. With access to dedicated studio space, you’ll be guided through how to use industry-standard software, such as Adobe’s Creative Suite, to build a portfolio and put journalistic theory into practice.

BA (Hons) Music Marketing & Promotion – UCA Epsom As one of its most significant cultural exports, the UK’s music industry is worldrenowned – not only for its quality and diversity, but also for the way it disseminates itself through the media. Behind every chart download, gig or movie theme lies a successful music promoter or marketing manager, working for artists, labels and audiences. With access to dedicated studios and computer labs, and guided by a highly experienced team, you’ll learn the transferable skills needed in music marketing and promotion – exploring the history of promotion and marketing in the context of the music industry, and creating innovative digital campaigns that embrace the latest techniques used in radio, press, television, online and digital distribution.

As a budding music journalist, you’ll learn how to write engaging copy – features, news, reviews, blog posts, and investigative pieces – for relevant platforms, as well as disseminating it on social media. This course has strong links with music and media experts, and Epsom’s close proximity to London means that the UK’s largest media companies will be on your doorstep, 5

BA (Hons) Music Production – UCA Epsom (deferred to 19/20 entry)

BA (Hons) Television Production – UCA Maidstone Studios/Rochester

Our Music Production course will strengthen your knowledge of the music industry and give you the confidence to shape live and recorded music outputs. You’ll learn to communicate with bands, artists, and music marketing and management companies whilst developing compositional abilities and sound mixing skills.

Taught at Maidstone TV Studios, this creative and practical course offers you the unique opportunity to study television production in one of the UK’s leading TV studios. Opportunities for work experience on the high-profile shows made at the studios, and networking with leading industry professionals will give you the chance to develop your skills and gain a real understanding of the sector. Using the latest industry-standard equipment in our purpose-built production base, you’ll learn advanced production techniques and cultivate a strong knowledge base that covers every aspect of the industry. You’ll discover script writing, directing, producing, editing, camera work, sound design, commissioning and more – and by the time you graduate, your versatile and highly sought-after skillset will extend across the whole production process, covering work in television, films, commercials, corporate, music videos, virals and idents.

You’ll learn about the producer as auteur, studying areas such as music and popular culture, festival theory, and culture music and identity, whilst building a portfolio through a variety of live projects, collaborations, work placements, and networking opportunities with industry professionals. You’ll also collaborate with other UCA courses like Music Journalism, Music Marketing & Promotion, and Music Performance. When you graduate, a wide variety of career paths within the music industry will be available to you, such as composer, arranger, producer, DJ, sound engineer or mixer.

Elizabeth Skilton – BA (Hons) Fashion Journalism UCA Epsom

BA (Hons) TV & Media Production – UCA Farnham On this course, you’ll be taught a broad and valuable range of research methods, interviewing skills and visual storytelling techniques, giving you the tools to create compelling and informed content that’s always in high demand. Working across a range of mediums in our state-of-theart facilities, you’ll develop the advanced production techniques needed to produce informed pieces for journalistic, documentary and fiction purposes. You’ll work closely with others specialising in a range of media disciplines, broadening your understanding of the field and providing opportunities for creative collaboration. There will be opportunities throughout the course for you to work on a number of live briefs, giving you the chance to experience a realistic simulation of a working studio atmosphere.

Student profile

Archie Challen & Rob De Souza – BA (Hons) Advertising UCA Farnham

Jenny Cole – BA (Hons) Journalism UCA Farnham, Year 3

I am really enjoying the course so far – the staff are all incredibly helpful and have so much background experience in the subject. We have been able to do a whole range of things, from making a newspaper to filming a television news programme. It is an incredibly varied and interesting course, and there’s a great atmosphere among the students. I’m gaining more confidence in a range of areas, such as approaching members of the public for interviews, making phone calls and presenting television programmes, and I’ve been able to start learning new skills like film editing, being in the gallery during broadcasting and developing my writing skills for different audiences. I was anxious about starting University and doing the course for a number of reasons, but I’ve really surprised myself by actually loving it! I was concerned that because I’m disabled and quite a bit older than the rest of my class that I wouldn’t fit in, but as the course has progressed I’ve gained more confidence, which has allowed me to bond with the other students. I also surprised myself by doing a comprehensive article about the EU Referendum, as I’ve always convinced myself that politics are boring! It was so good to push myself to do something out of my comfort zone and realise that I do actually have the skills to research and present topics that I didn’t originally know much about.

I haven’t done any official work placements yet, but I have spoken to a few people in the industry through some of the voluntary work and awareness work I do for mental health charities. I was interviewed on the Anne Diamond show on BBC Radio Berkshire, and chatted a lot to both Anne and some of the staff working in her team. I also appeared live on the Victoria Derbyshire show on BBC2, which gave me an opportunity to talk to some of the staff about working on live TV. Michael Buchanan on BBC1, who was extremely helpful with advice about working in the industry, has interviewed me. Radio One Newsbeat interviewed me, and again, the journalists were incredibly interesting and helpful. Apart from that, I have also made contact with Nikki Fox, who is the BBC News Disability Correspondent, and she has offered to talk me through some of the schemes that the BBC offer for budding journalists with disabilities. I don’t have any specific ideas of exactly what kind of career I want to go into at the moment, so I’m trying as many different areas of journalism as I possibly can to find out more about what I enjoy the most. Because I have a lot of health problems, ideally working freelance would probably work best for me, as I can work things around my health. I have been writing a blog and making YouTube videos for about three years now, and it would be amazing if I could turn these into something bigger.

We create

The UK’s creative industries are growing by 8.9% a year, employing 1.8 million people in a range of sectors from broadcast and media through to publishing and film, contributing £84.1billion to the economy. Whether you want to write breaking news, interview celebrities or produce TV programmes, our Journalism and Media courses will enable you to develop specialist skills that prepare you for working in industry. Our extensive production facilities ensure that you will have the advance technical skills to carve your way into the industry, as well as an impressive body of work that you will have created as a student.

You’ll have many opportunities to undertake specialist work placements that will give you valuable experience and help you make media contacts. Our students have worked on live programmes such as Later… With Jools Holland, with broadcasters and publishers such as Channel 4, Heat, NME, BBC Radio 1, W Magazine, Reuters and ITV Sport, and organisations including UEFA and top PR agencies. UCA is the number one specialist creative university (Complete University Guide 2018 and The Guardian University Guide 2018), and we have a proud tradition of supporting students and equipping them with everything they need to thrive in the workplace. 94.6% of our students find employment or go on to further study within the first six months after graduating. Recent graduates have gone on to become presenters, communication professionals, publicists, feature writers, screenwriters and content creators for companies such as Vice and Absolute Radio.

careers Journalism students UCA Farnham

Phoebe Fox â&#x20AC;&#x201C; BA (Hons) Music Marketing & Promotion UCA Epsom

Portfolio advice

Think of your portfolio as a statement about your work – it should exhibit your creative journey, thought processes and influences. Don’t be afraid to be bold and appeal to the viewer, keeping their attention and leaving them feeling excited about your creative potential.

Make sure your portfolio is well presented. Remember, our tutors will only have a short amount of time to look through each portfolio, so you need to organise your work intelligently. Generally, we would recommend that you include between 10 and 25 pieces of work in your portfolio, neatly mounted on white or off-white paper in either landscape or portrait format (not a mixture of both). Put some of your most attention-grabbing and interesting work at the front and lead the viewer through your journey by exhibiting pieces of work that showcase a variety of skills, materials, techniques and influences – this might include paintings, drawings, photography, digital pieces, storyboards, animation images or written work. If you include moving image work, we would recommend a maximum of two minutes’ running time. Highlight your favourite pieces too, and indicate what or who inspires you.

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Your portfolio should feature examples of your research and show the development of your ideas and projects – this should be highly presentable and well organised. It may be useful to arrange your work into themes, styles or chronological order. This will demonstrate good organisational skills and your own artistic awareness.

The course pages at uca.ac.uk provide clear guidance on what we’d like to see in your portfolio for each of our courses. We’ve also put together a set of videos talking you through the process:

What is a portfolio? – A portfolio is a collection of your work that demonstrates a range of skills and creative talent. It’s your opportunity to showcase your individuality, creativity, inspirations and artistic abilities, and is a useful way for us to evaluate your suitability for the course you’ve applied to. It might contain design work, drawings/art projects, photographs, films, sound work, music composition, or examples of creative writing or essays.

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It should exhibit your creative journey, thinking processes and individual personality, so we can assess your potential. It’s also important to show both your inspirations and aspirations, as your portfolio should say a lot about you and your creative identity, as well as the course you’re applying to. Documenting the development of your ideas in a sketchbook is a great way to show us how you approached the task of creating your work, allowing us to gain insight into your creative thought processes and approach to your subject, and demonstrating a clear rationale. 13

Graduate profile The course has been a great experience for me to expand on my creative skills, some that I’ve built on and others that I’ve developed purely whilst I’ve been here. The course certainly pushes you to try new ideas and experiment, something that I used to be quite hesitant to do. I am, so far, most proud of my contribution to the group magazine in second year. I put a lot of effort and time into that magazine and so when we were finished, I truly felt like I could be proud of what I’d done to create it. It just goes to show that you can create a magazine all by yourself and publish independently – it certainly helped me to believe and trust in myself. I always find Contextual Studies really interesting and inspiring. The essay I wrote on the projection of women in the media opened my eyes to a whole new reading of feminism and has made me consider what sort of photography I would like to take in the future. I interned for a month at Fabulous Magazine in the second year; it’s really important to make the most of any experience and make yourself known to everyone at your desk and every other desk. Even if it isn’t necessarily the type of job or role you want in the future, you never know what might happen if you open yourself up to new opportunities. I was grateful to have the chance to go on four shoots and introduced myself to the hair stylists, photographer,

Heather Ibberson – BA (Hons) Fashion Journalism UCA Epsom, 2017

models and makeup artists, who I’m still in touch with on social media. I even recently got an email asking if I was interested in work experience at another place through a recommendation from one of the team at Fabulous! From continuing to work on my blog throughout university, I’ve made contacts within the PR industry and attend Press Days for brands. It’s so important to create and establish these industry contacts whilst you’re at university so you have your foot in the door before you leave. For anyone reading this before starting university, try to get an internship somewhere. It doesn’t have to be in London or for a big company, perhaps even a local magazine, it will help you when applying for internships later on. I didn’t even know internships existed before I went to university and I wish someone had told me about them! Ideally, a freelance career would suit me best as I want to work across a variety of creative fields within the industry. From styling, art direction, writing to photography, I want to do it all!

Student Profile

I chose UCA as it was close to home – I liked the sound of the course, so applied. My advice to anyone applying for university would be to know what you want out of your course. When I was applying, I found different universities offer journalism courses that focus on some areas more than others – I liked that UCA journalism described a lot of broadcast and creative things, whereas some journalism courses only focus on writing.

The facilities at UCA are amazing. I feel like everyone should really take advantage of the resources whilst they’re a student; even though it’s a smaller university, we have some great equipment and software to help you create amazing content.

Also, make sure you visit the university, speak to some students maybe and just get a feel for it.

I feel like I’ve changed since I started at UCA – I have a better view on what I need to do in order to get a great job in the industry. Once I graduate I want to apply for the BBC internship scheme. I also want to get into some local radios and work my way up that way.

I chose to study journalism as I hope to get a career in presenting, ideally for radio. I did a placement at BBC 1XTRA during this year, and I hope to work there in the near future. My highlights were definitely all of it as a whole. During the week, I met amazing people, and was able to have my voice heard. I got to sit in music meetings, was live on air and helped with the 1Xtra ‘My Mind & Me’ talks – an event which was a great experience for me.

Shanae Brooks – BA (Hons) Journalism UCA Farnham, 2018

I also had work experience at Dennis Publishing and I plan to spend the summer trying to find some more work internships in radio that I can get into.

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Course leaders Simon Welsford – BA (Hons) Television Production Maidstone TV Studios Simon Welsford leads our BA (Hons) Television Production degree. Simon received a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and has spent over 15 years working in the film and television industry as a writer/director. He has worked on a wide range of productions, screening around the world and winning a number of awards. His short film ‘Walking With Walken’ went on to screen at over 30 international festivals, and was sold to Film4, Channel 4 and CBC in Canada. It won five festival awards and this success led to Simon directing a variety of television programmes. His directing work has also covered corporate films for clients such as Pearson and Penguin, music videos and more.

Simon wrote and directed his first feature film, ‘Jetsam’. Independently financed, it premiered at the 51st London Film Festival and won the Best Low Budget Film Prize at the London Independent Film Festival. It garnered high critical praise, and gained a UK theatrical release and worldwide distribution on DVD and VOD. Simon continues to develop feature length projects as a writer, with agent representation in Los Angeles.

David Anderson – BA (Hons) Advertising UCA Farnham David Anderson leads our BA (Hons) Advertising degree at UCA Farnham. David is a successful creative and strategic thinker, combining a highly renowned academic reputation with extensive industry experience. A graduate of the Glasgow School of Art and the University of Huddersfield, he’s also been awarded an MA Writing for Performance and Publication from the University of Leeds and is the External Examiner for MA, MDes and BA courses in the UK. David’s impressive CV includes a number of years as Creative Director and Art Director, following on from his success as a Graphic Designer. During his career in the advertising industry, David was mentored by Ogilvy & Mather and worked for several influential agencies.

Prior to joining UCA, David spent 19 years at Leeds College of Art developing and leading a portfolio of courses in both graphic design and advertising. Alongside his role in the School of Communication Design, David is also a short story writer and a published playwright.

Dennis Maloney – BA (Hons) Fashion Journalism UCA Epsom

Charles Lambert – BA (Hons) Journalism & Media Production UCA Farnham

Dennis Maloney leads our BA (Hons) Fashion Journalism course. Prior to taking up this role, Dennis was Senior Lecturer and Third Year Coordinator on the BA (Hons) Fashion Media & Promotion programme at UCA Rochester from 2007.

Charles has worked as a journalist for more than 20 years, mainly for the BBC and ITV. As a reporter, he covered everything from murder trials to missing cats, including political rows, cultural stories and sports events at Wembley, Lords and other major stadia. In 2005, he moved from being in front of the camera to producing items for the BBC’s one and six o’clock news programmes and breakfast shows. He was also part of a team that made a documentary on hostage-taking for Sky TV.

A graduate of the University of Surrey, Dennis started his career as a freelance writer and journalist, progressing to styling, creative direction and editorial roles. He contributed to titles such as Vogue E+T (Australia), West East (Hong Kong), The Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The Times (online), Blueprint magazine, The Sunday Express and Toni & Guy Magazine. Senior editorial roles include TripAdvisor and GT magazine (amongst others), and he has acted as Editor-at-Large for Phoenix Magazine, Editor of GEIST Magazine and Fashionista, a publication for Graduate Fashion Week. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, he’s also the co-author of ‘Fashion Promotion in Practice’, a textbook that forms part of Bloomsbury’s Required Reading Range, published in January 2016.

Charles has a degree in History from Oxford University and has always had a keen interest in teaching. He has lectured on a part-time basis at Southampton Solent University and the University of the Arts London, before becoming leader of the Sports Journalism course at the University of East London in 2012. He moved to Farnham in 2014. Charles has delivered conference papers on celebrity journalism, obituary writing and the origins of cricket.

Lucy O’Brien – BA (Hons) Music Journalism and BA (Hons) Music Marketing & Promotion UCA Epsom

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Lucy O’Brien leads our BA (Hons) Music Journalism and BA (Hons) Music Marketing & Promotion courses, and is the author of ‘She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music’. Lucy has also written ‘Madonna: Like an Icon’, plus in-depth biographies of Dusty Springfield and Annie Lennox.

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Lucy has worked for the music press since the 1980s, starting on NME and contributing to a range of titles including Q, MOJO, The Sunday Times and The Guardian. Lucy has acted as a consultant and guest contributor in television and radio with Channel 4 News, BBC Radio 4 – Woman’s Hour, Radio London, and the 2002 BBC Radio 2 documentary, She Bop (based on her book). She’s also co-produced ‘Righteous Babes’, the Channel 4 film about rock and new feminism.

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‘I’m With The Band’, in Voicing Girlhood in Popular Music: Performance, Authority, Authenticity, ed. A. Adrian & J. Warwick (2016) ‘PJ Harvey records a new album in public’, Frieze (2015) ‘Not A Piece of Meat: Lady Gaga and that dress’, in The Gaga Collection, ed. M. Iddon and M. Marshall (2014) ‘The Enemy Within: Women and Protest Pop’, in Let’s Start A Pussy Riot, eds Flecknell, French, Neubert and Siveyer (2013) ‘Let Me Have a Taste of Your Ice Cream: Leeds post punk, feminism and the Yorkshire Ripper’, in Punk & Post Punk, Intellect Journals Vol 1 (2011)

Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Lucy played and sang in the all-girl punk band, The Catholic Girls.

Her specialist research areas are music subcultures and scenes, feminism and popular culture, writing and publishing biography. Academic publications include:

Journalism students UCA Farnham

We create Farnham – UCA Farnham has extensive purpose-built facilities for over 2,000 students studying a wide range of creative arts subject areas including film, animation, graphics, illustration, fine art, photography, textiles, journalism and advertising. Journalism and media resources include: – Dedicated Mac and PC suites for design, for both web and print, editing and copywriting – Access to fully-equipped radio and sound studios – A fully-digital, tapeless three-camera television studio, networked to our broadcast newsroom using industryleading Autocue production software – Access to industry-standard audio and video equipment which can be hired from the media store. Film and animation resources include:

– Animation studio with Mac workstations, light boxes, line testers and high-speed batch scanners – Dedicated studios for set building, lighting, costume and prop making – Industry-standard video production equipment, editing software, sound editing software, digital media software and CGI software.

UCA has a long-term plan for a dedicated Film and Media Centre on campus containing industry-standard spaces and equipment. The building will include a recording studio, live room, dubbing theatre, film studio and performance spaces, to be completed by 2019.

Epsom – UCA Epsom is renowned as a major centre for fashion, fashion journalism and graphic design. Our resources provide students with the right ingredients for successful study including modern IT facilities, a media store, inspiring teaching areas, gallery space, a library, supportive teaching staff and a programme of guest speakers. Music and fashion journalism facilities include: – Access to video cameras, stills cameras and digital recorders from the media store – Photographic studios and darkrooms – Two dedicated large teaching rooms/ studios furnished with computers and printers.

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The Maidstone Studios have a comprehensive range of post-production and scenery services onsite.

As well as specialist studios, lecture theatres, equipment and software, our campus at UCA Rochester boasts a wide range of industry-standard facilities.

You’ll receive exclusive 24/7 access to an expansive, dedicated learning and teaching space within the studios (depending on your course). This includes Apple edit suites, screening rooms, an audition room, sound booth, kitchen, kit room and library. We also have a dedicated technical tutor onsite who can assist with projects, and a dedicated work placement coordinator who can help in establishing opportunities for you. Dedicated production facilities include: – – – –

Fostex field sound recorders GoPro Hero Green screen iMacs equipped with Adobe Studio and FCPX – Professional studio and live gallery – Pro-tools sound booth – Manfrotto tripods – Manfrotto Fig Rig – Manfrotto tracking kit – Mini Crane – Sennheiser sound kits – Sony HD cameras – Steadicam … and much more.

Computer generated animation resources include: – Industry-standard software such as Autodesk Maya, Mudbox, After Effects, Unity and Adobe Photoshop, Audition, Premiere and Animate Unity – Specialist computers supplied by Dell – Studios and access to other campus computer facilities – Sound booths – 3D printing. Please note, access to each campus and its resources can sometimes depend on the campus you choose to study at (for example, if you study at one campus, you may be using the facilities at that campus but not always at others – this depends on your course).

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Graduate profile

A thing I really appreciate is how I’ve been given the basic blocks within journalism, media and styling and have been able to develop those skills. I’m happy to know that I will leave university with a number of different skills which will really help me get a job within the industry. In my second year I was able to try so many different types of writing and I could really see how much my writing had improved since starting the course. It’s been really interesting to learn about the history of fashion and how it is still referenced today – it’s opened my eyes and taught me that a simple photo or phrase can hold a hundred messages.

I had always considered myself to be a visual person and was really interested in styling, however throughout the course I found myself really enjoying doing the graphics and layout; I never really considered myself to be a photographer but the more shoots I did, I seemed to develop skills I didn’t know I had. I discovered that I’m an ideas person too – I throw out hundreds of ideas until I reach one I’m happy with. I’m pleased to have discovered this about myself as I think it will really help me in the future.

Naeemah Miah – BA (Hons) Fashion Journalism UCA Epsom, 2017

I’m still trying to figure out what area of fashion journalism I would like to go into, so my plan after graduating is to do more internships so I can get my foot in the door. I know that I would like to be a part of an editorial team for a publication.

Next steps

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