We offer practical events, mentoring, funding, advice and temporary work to support UAL students and graduates with their freelance work, artistic practice, business or career.
Services include:
Support is free and accessible to all of our students.
We believe that everyone should be able to achieve their creative ambitions, regardless of their background or circumstance.
Our services are generally open to students and graduates (up to 5 years after graduation) from all UAL Colleges. Some opportunities (such as funding and selected internships) are limited to specific groups but we make it clear when this is the case.
Careers and Employability doesn’t have a student-facing office. However, we do have Student Employability Practitioners; members of staff who are based in each College during term time and run events to support you with your career.
Support for graduates is provided by our dedicated Graduate Developer.
Careers and Employability are committed to helping you to make a living doing what you love. It's really important to us to find out how you are getting on, so we will be getting back in touch about 15 months after you have graduated to conduct the 'Graduate Outcomes Survey'.
The information you share with us will help us to understand what all of our graduates are doing, which in turn will inform how we design careers support for the next generation of UAL graduates. Please help us and future graduates by taking a few minutes to respond.
To find out more about the survey please email: careers-employability@arts.ac.uk
Find paid internships and jobs in the creative industries. Search Creative Opportunities - UAL’s jobs board for students and graduates.
Want to launch a freelance career, social enterprise, artistic practice or startup? Sign up for Creative Start-up Day.
We run over 150 events each year to support UAL students with their creative careers and businesses.
Creative Shift Visits are a series of visits out to meet creative agencies, organizations or individuals. The visits are a chance to see behind the scenes of creative companies, meet professionals, build your network, ask questions and understand
Last week we held our first event of the year, which was hugely popular and a great opportunity to introduce ourselves and what we do. For those of you who missed it, we’re covering some of the main points of the talk, so that you too can learn
This day of talks and workshops examining the future of the high street, took place at Central Saint Martins (CSM) on 5 July 2019.
University of the Arts London (UAL) will present a hand-picked selection of design products, created by 9 of its students and alumni at the Top Drawer trade show, 8 – 10 September 2019. Let’s take a closer look at this years’ chosen
Designer maker? Want to meet trade buyers and build your business contacts? Apply to be part of our subsidised group stand at @TopDrawerLondon (12-14 January 2020). Costs start from £65 and include training and insurance. Apply by 14 November: https://t.co/88Kz0RDdBH https://t.co/K4JzMq48e1
Check out our new release! In today’s episode we're speaking with @esmecallaghan a set designer & illustrator based in Brighton. Esme studied BA Performance Design & Practice at @csm_news and graduated 2 years ago. Search 'Gradual Podcast' to subscribe #gradualpod 🌠 https://t.co/x7aro7ByN6
Final year @unioftheartslondon undergraduate student? You could get an award of up to £2,500 to help you complete your final major project. Apply for a Mead Final Project Award by 27 November 2019: https://t.co/C6b306rP2M https://t.co/SwbC30mbhr
Represent is a new student-led event about art, design and representation. The first event will see video artist and textile designer Chiizii, filmmaker @TAdepeju and vlogger @_manlikemike sharing their experiences. Tues 22 Oct (5.30-7pm) @csm_news https://t.co/sQW0cXKtyZ https://t.co/TbD9YOR9EQ