Student experience
Develop your own creative expression and style as both a practitioner and criticYou'll benefit from the School’s professional relationships with the creative and cultural industries. These links directly impact the relevance of our course content, offer employer engagement opportunities and improve student employability. You’ll be taught in small practice-based groups, with opportunities for interdisciplinary work.
Taught by creative practitioners
Our staff members are active in their creative fields as practitioners, photographers, artists, DJs, film makers, and musicians. The following film, focused on BA (Hons) Sound Design, provides an insight into the CVs of our academics and evidences the wealth of experience they bring to their teaching. This just is one example of many. View the School of Arts and Creative Industries YouTube playlist to see all our films.
A personal journey of creative exploration and discovery
Studying here you'll have lots of freedom to discover yourself as a practitioner and critic. We'll support you to develop your own creative expression and style through experimentation. Whether you are writing a radio play, making films, creating soundscapes or games, producing improvised dramatic performances or delivering a community arts project we encourage you to take a wide range of roles and responsibilities that mirror the working world. This approach stretches our students' ambitions and builds their confidence and ability to seize the opportunities in the sector that are right for them.
View the School of Arts and Creative Industries YouTube Playlist to see all our films.
Supportive approach
We aim to support you throughout your undergraduate studies at the School. Our teaching and learning includes:
- personal tutoring
- tutor guidance as you plan your career and advice on work experience
- seminars, online learning environments and specialist advice sessions
- practical application of learning
mix of assessment methods - talks and seminars with arts and media organisations
- workshops on CVs, applications and interviews
- Personal Development Planning
- support through work placements and projects with employers
At postgraduate level:
- training in research methods and assistance with independent research projects, which can be linked to your interest, professional development and/or employment
- range of assessment methods
- practical application of research to real-world scenarios
- extra clinics offering support outside lecture and tutorial sessions
The School’s links with industry and LSBU’s dedicated Careers Service will help you find work placements and jobs in sectors such as arts education, film, media, museums and galleries, new media, photography, television and video games.
Our careers page and individual course pages have specialist information on placement opportunities.
The Student Centre at LSBU is a central hub for support and employment information, group study and meeting staff informally. It offers students support in IT, maths and communication skills for academic and professional development. The centre is also home to the Students' Union, café and bar.
LSBU’s Southwark campus is within easy reach by bus, train, London Underground or bicycle. Stay in our halls of residence or nearby in private rented accommodation and you'll have the perfect base to explore the city and its many world-renowned attractions.
Borough Road Gallery
Opened in 2012, the Borough Road Gallery collection contains valuable and significant works of Post War British Art. The Gallery provides a window into the university for the public as well as a cultural hub for the university community offering staff and students a programme of engagement in the understanding and enjoyment of the visual arts. For many of our students it will create the start of a lifelong love of visual art; it is home to many of our Arts and Festival Management students and also supports our PhD research studentships focused upon curation, performance and media exhibition.
Student enterprise
The mission of LSBU is “to be recognised as an enterprising civic university that addresses real world challenges”. At LSBU, we provide students and alumni with a supportive environment to develop entrepreneurial skills and gain the confidence to start and grow successful businesses.
One example is our national award-winning South Bank Photography Collective which gives students the chance to run their own photographic business, selling their work commercially across a wide range of clients.
The School provides students and alumni with a supportive environment to learn entrepreneurial skills and gain the confidence to start and grow successful businesses.
Our support includes inspirational talks from visiting entrepreneurs, practical workshops, taster sessions, competitions, enterprise schemes and other special events.
Visit Student Enterprise for more information.
Enterprise Associate Scheme
The scheme supports entrepreneurial students to explore and develop the commercial potential of their final year projects. High-achieving graduates from the BA (Hons) Game Cultures course - Erlend Gresfrud, Kalli Karllson and Rohan Feldmesser - were all offered places on the LSBU Enterprise Associate Scheme. Successful applicants receive financial support, mentoring and training.