Creative Journeys: Shaping your career at UAL (Undergraduate)

If you're considering an undergraduate degree at UAL but are unsure what career paths it can lead to, this is a talk for you.

We'll take you through how UAL's Careers and Employability service, as well as other programmes, events and opportunities, could shape your career. We'll also give examples of how students can make use of the wider UAL community to experiment, explore and venture into new areas of their creative journey.

The talk will cover opportunities open to you as a UAL undergraduate, followed by a conversation with an Alumni about their experiences and how they made the most of their time studying with us.

Our speaker
Bhairavi Yogasivam is a BA Architecture graduate from Central Saint Martins. During her time at UAL, she began exploring her interest in illustration and visual storytelling as a way to communicate architectural ideas, which unexpectedly led her into product design through a live brief with not just a shop.

She is now working on an exciting project with Chelsea College of Arts, helping to redesign a guest flat, using products and designs created entirely by UAL students and graduates. Approached as a collaborative, collective archival project, the work brings together a range of practices and documents process and making. Through this, Bhairavi continues to explore collaboration and alternative pathways through and beyond undergraduate study, sharing her journey from architecture into multidisciplinary design.

There will be time at the end of the talk for some Q&As.

About Careers and Employability at UAL

Careers and Employability empowers UAL students and graduates to make a living doing what they love.

Our range of services can help you to build a successful career, whether you want to be an employee, freelancer, entrepreneur or creative practitioner.

Use our UAL Career Toolkit on moodle to build up skills and learn more about topics. We created each course to help you develop a particular skill set.

We provide:

• One-to-one advice (email careers-support@arts.ac.uk)
• Career resources
• Events and workshops
• Awards, funding and mentoring
• Job opportunities
• Freelance and business support
• Opportunities to exhibit and sell your work

Support is free and accessible to all UAL students and graduates (up to 5 years after graduation).

Find out more about our full offer on our website.

Access
This event will take place online using Teams. We will record and transcribe the session for those who need notes to refer back to.

If you believe there are any barriers to your participation in this event or you have any access requirements you wish to discuss, we would be happy to talk to you. Please contact careersevents@arts.ac.uk in advance.

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Image Credit: Confidence Fruzsina Menyhei, BA Illustration