UAL ENTERPRISE AND EMPLOYABILITY LANDSCAPE REVIEW - Relating to teaching and curricula in art and design

The purpose of the review is to develop an understanding of enterprise and employability across the University of the Arts London, specifically how enterprise and employability is perceived across colleges, courses and disciplines, and how this is designed into course curricula. 

The aim of the review is also aspirational, exploring colleges’ future plans in this area and identifying how they might implement these plans, all in order to define and articulate a future strategy in this area.

Student Enterprise and Employability (SEE) will initiate the review and fund and support LCC, LCF, CCW & CSM to carry out a landscape review.  

 

AIMS

DEFINITION /
WHAT does enterprise and employability mean in an art & design 

• To create a shared definition/understanding of enterprise and employability within each college
• To articulate commonalities and possible variations across disciplines and practice
• To better understand the language and nomenclature in this area, so it is better communicated to students

CASE STUDIES / 
HOW do we do this in art & design curriculum 

• Illustrate what enterprise and employability look like in practice
• Articulate understandings of what worked, or did not work, and why
• Discuss complex issues or projects and how these were resolved

FUTURE SCENARIO & RECOMMENDATIONS /  
WHERE do we want to go in the future of art & design pedagogy

• To develop future scenarios and priorities on the status of each colleges’ plans and aspirations, and recommendations on how these could be built upon  in order to further embed enterprise and employability into the curriculum
• To explore new models internally and externally (if any) around the teaching and learning of enterprise and employability in the curriculum or complementing curricula activity

REPORT

• Report for dissemination to key stakeholders (CCW, CSM, LCC, LCF, CLTAD and SEE)
• Develop and seek endorsement for college internal statements on enterprise and employability and contribute to college strategies
• Identification of context-specific points for discussion and action for each college to follow up, in order to further engage, innovate and develop practice in this area

SHARED RESOURCE

• Publication and open educational resource for Arts Learning and Teaching Online (ALTO)
• Case studies and models of practice that inform the curriculum development strategies, industry engagement and college and university-wide communication activities
• Vignettes to support and contextualize data such as Graduates Destinations, DELHE/HESA and Key Information Sets (KIS)

DIALOGUE

• Identify key staff across UAL to develop a Community of Practice and/or Working Group around enterprise and employability within the curriculum
• College and University- wide dissemination activities including presenting research to staff and key projects for external conference circuit

• To understand and articulate what enterprise and employability means in a creative higher education
• To examine what enterprise and employability looks like in learning and teaching practices across colleges and disciplines
• To inform a baseline practice of enterprise and employability within the curriculum at UAL

• Showcasing and dialogue of current practices and approaches across disciplines
• Opportunity to reflect on practice and identify areas for support and development
• Development of open educational resources to support curriculum design and delivery
• Partnership and collaboration with SEE adds value, resources and support to curriculum learning and teaching
   

• Sharing of practice to help bond programmes, and develop disciplinary, cross disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approaches
• Identify and develop priorities at college level and university-wide
• Inform college and university strategies to support the further embedding of enterprise and employability within the curriculum 

SEE
Student Enterprise & Employability Service (SEE) helps UAL students and graduates develop enterprise and employability skills, and make and take opportunities and build professional networks and connections. 

The newly formed SEE combines extra-curricular provision to help students realise their professional aspirations through events, networks and resources to support students in all arts disciplines in their professional trajectories. The SEE family also includes Artquest, Own-it and ArtsTemps.

SEE works with learning and teaching development and UAL’s academic staff to develop and embed enterprise and employability practice within the curriculum.  

RESEARCHERS


Cara Lee Roth, SEE Educational Developer
Dr Duna Sabri, Educational Researcher

CHELSEA, CAMBERWELL & WIMBLEDON COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN
Yvonne Kulagowski, Academic Leader / Context at Camberwell

Supported by:
Natalie Brett, Dean of Camberwell
George Blacklock, Dean of Chelsea
Simon Betts, Dean of Wimbledon
Alanah Cullen, Head of CCW Enterprise Collective

CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN
Tim Sokolow, Academic Coordinator Student Support

Supported by:
Alex Lumley, Associate Dean of Teaching, Learning, Student Support
Amanda Bright, Associate Dean of HE

LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION
Ellen Hanceri, Senior Lecturer / Head of Year 2 BA Surface Design

Supported by:
Lawrence Zeegen, Dean of Design
Karin Askham, Dean of Media

LONDON COLLEGE OF FASHION
Cath Dearden, Placement Broker / Fashion Business Resource Studio (FBRS)

Supported by:
Alison James, Head of Teaching and Learning
Claire Tristram, Employability Manager
Jonas Altman, Head of Enterprise & International Development
Wendy Malem, Dean of Enterprise& Graduate School