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#CreativityCounts: UAL Awarding Body Annual Conference 2018

Written by
aclancystride Published date
06 February 2018

Speaker on stage delivering a presentation

Thank you to everyone who attended UAL Awarding Body’s Annual Conference

Like last year, UAL Awarding Body brought all of its subjects together, before separating for subject-specific breakout sessions in the afternoon.

Delegates from Art & Design, Music, Fashion, Foundation Studies, Creative Media and Performing Arts kicked off the day with Triple Double’s Paul Jenkins – who spoke about the importance of learning to fail.

Paul was followed by Schools Week’s Laura McInerney – who discussed what the psychology of politicians means for education.

“Are there thousands of jobs in design? Maybe not. Are there hundreds of thousands of problems to solve? YES!”

Laura, also a columnist for The Guardian, began by pointing out that

In 73 years, not a single education secretary studied a creative subject for their degree.

Next up, guests were treated to a mix of presentations and performances from the talented students at Rotherham College, Birmingham Metropolitan College, Academy of Contemporary Music, and Birmingham Metropolitan College.

Other guest speakers included Rizing Games founder Michael Warburton, graphic designer Simon Wild, Touretteshero co-founder Jess Thom, freelance makeup artist Phoebe Walters, as well as Matias Shortcook (Associate Dean, Plymouth College of Art) and Dr Amy Mallett (Cohere Professional Development), who ended the event on a high with her speech: ‘Creativity changing lives’.

Thanks again to all of our guest speakers. Please scroll down to the bottom of the page to see our list of speakers.