Our class of 2020 undertook live projects focusing on topics including beauty and digital personalisation; social media planning in sports organisations; and media strategies of fitness coaches during the 2020 coronavirus lockdown.
Click on the images below to see some examples of our students’ fantastic work!
At the start of each new year, students in their second year of study undertake an industry placement. Throughout the Autumn, students get help and support developing skills such as CV writing, cold calling and using Linkedin. They use these skills to find a suitable organisation that they want to work with and set up a placement with them. The placement lasts 4 weeks and is often the most transformative part of the whole MII degree.
This year we have students at organisations in London, Essex and Brighton covering a range of media sectors:
In our corridor, staff have been putting up info about their academic heroes. These are people whose work we admire, for a whole host of different reasons. Currently highlighted is Ariella Azoulay (born 1962), whose work includes texts, films and exhibition curation. She examines how photographs and other visual media convery historical knowledge.
Twice per year we have a meeting between the lecturers on our courses and our fantastic Course Reps. The reps share feedback from the whole student group with us. Good or bad, this feedback is always constructive and it helps us to keep doing the best we can for our students.
Our wonderful MII Course Reps told us that in general things are going really well! The two areas they asked us to improve were how we explain optional modules to help them choose the right modules; and to advertise social events more widely.
In the meeting we agreed a plan for how to explain optional module choices better. And we gave the course reps the job of organising a Christmas / End of Term Social and to help promote it.
Thanks to our fantastic MII Course Reps!
Sophie Hayes
Xu Cheng
Tom Brearley-Smith
Margaret Nowacka
Alice Humphries
Another really useful and interesting guest lecture from Kati Byrne. This week, project planning including Gantt charts, work breakdown structures and other tools. One of those modules that has such obvious practical applications beyond uni!
MII and Media Studies students were very lucky to have Kati Byrne give the first of three guest lectures last week on the Media Project Management Module.
Kati is an award-winning multilingual PR and social media consultant who loves creating things that haven’t been done before. For the past 12 years, she has been working on innovative media stunts, events, exhibitions, and digital marketing campaigns. She is currently in love with 3D printing and still likes taking the occasional photograph or two…
We’ll have some more updates in the next couple of weeks. For now, here are some of the stakeholder mapping exercises that Kati showed us. Don’t let the colourful post-its fool you, there is a lot of complexity in these diagrams!
Second year students were introduced to the dizzying world of project management for the first time last week. Really interesting to see the different ways in which diferent groups can plan the same projects.
In this year’s welcome week, the wonderful Dr Kevin Reynolds filmed one of our most important sessions. Presented by Dr Ryan Burns, your course leader for MII, here is “Previous 1st Year Students Q&A (How To Be A Student, Part 4)”
Popsocket before and after. I must have started drinking my coffee between photos…
