[:en]Studying on MII is all about working with people.  Mostly, this means working with your classmates and lecturers to produce top quality work.

At key times, this means working with external organisations: local businesses and groups who come to classes or who we visit together. Often we work together on generating ideas, solving problems and thinking innovatively about how we can improve the way things are done.

For an insight into the key elements of studying here, please visit the official course page link above.

You could also watch this video to hear a recent student’s experience of the second year placement – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-rmjFl8plI[:de]Studying on MII is all about working with people.  Mostly, this means working with your classmates and lecturers to produce top quality work.

At key times, this means working with external organisations: local businesses and groups who come to classes or who we visit together. Often we work together on generating ideas, solving probems and thinking innovatively about how we can improve the way things are done.

For an insight into the key elements of studying here, please visit the official course page link above.

You could also watch this video to hear a recent student’s experience of the second year placement – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-rmjFl8plI[:]

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Our Media, Industry and Innovation degree is designed to equip entrepreneurial students with the skills and experience required to work within an ever-changing digital media landscape. Rather than teaching specific hard skills such as software packages or processes, we focus on developing skills in research, workplace environments, project management and critical thinking.

Academically, our degree is part of the tradition of Media and Cultural Studies. As a result, we pride ourselves on being critical. Critical of working practices; approaches to study; requirements of industry; expectations of students and expectations of work. Being critical means not taking anything for granted and looking to change things for the better.

The Live Project is the culmination of three years of study. Students work full-time with a partner organisation for their entire second semester. During this time, students will establish a partnership, identify needs, plan a project, run it and evaluate it.

The Live Project replaces the traditional long written dissertation that most courses continue to use as the major piece of work done in the final year. We’re proud of the Live Project because:

• students gain significant hands-on experience in a workplace or organisation that they’re interested in
• it supports local organisations
• it’s great for employability, with many students finding graduate work with their Live Project partner
• it’s great preparation for further study: over 50% of our 2019 graduates have gone onto Master’s level study

See the annual pages for some examples of previous Live Projects

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How we work with external partners

4 week placement during students’ second year: 13th January – 7th February 2019

Partnerships between employers and students can offer great benefits. Students will have the opportunity to gain practical experience of the industry in an area that relates to their course, while employers can meet staffing needs in an innovative, flexible and low-risk way. The placement will ideally take place at the premises of the provider for the duration, to furnish our students with a greater understanding of what is required of them in their chosen industry and to learn from those professionals around them, however, there is flexibility at times throughout the 4 weeks for a student to work remotely.

10-13 week Live Project, taken full time by a student in their final semester of study

You have a project or idea that you want to run but you don’t have the time available within your team to run it. A student works with you to complete this project. You’ll work with the student to scope and plan the project so that it meets your and their needs.

A student approaches you with an idea for a project that they want to run and which they think would fit perfectly within your organisation. You discuss your organisation’s needs with the student so that they can scope and plan the project in a way that meets your and their needs.

Students will work full-time on this project. They may work on your premises if appropriate. They may work from home and have meetings with you on your premises if that is more suitable. It is possible, though not preferable, for your interaction to be entirely remote by email and Skype.

Modules at all levels work with external speakers

You have a project or idea that needs some additional research or investigation. Having a group of students (between 10-30) working on this would provide you with useful information and allow the students to develop skills and experience. This may be a one-off session or it may be a few sessions periodically over a couple of months.

Contact

Dr Ryan Burns
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Course Leader, BA (Hons) Media, Industry and Innovation
School of Media, University of Brighton, 606 Watts Building, Brighton BN2 4GJ
(01273 64) 2473
r.burns2@brighton.ac.uk
https://www.brighton.ac.uk/courses/study/media-industry-and-innovation-ba-hons.aspx[:de]

How we work with external partners

4 week placement during students’ second year: 13th January – 7th February 2019

Partnerships between employers and students can offer great benefits. Students will have the opportunity to gain practical experience of the industry in an area that relates to their course, while employers can meet staffing needs in an innovative, flexible and low-risk way. The placement will ideally take place at the premises of the provider for the duration, to furnish our students with a greater understanding of what is required of them in their chosen industry and to learn from those professionals around them, however, there is flexibility at times throughout the 4 weeks for a student to work remotely.

10-13 week Live Project, taken full time by a student in their final semester of study

You have a project or idea that you want to run but you don’t have the time available within your team to run it. A student works with you to complete this project. You’ll work with the student to scope and plan the project so that it meets your and their needs.

A student approaches you with an idea for a project that they want to run and which they think would fit perfectly within your organisation. You discuss your organisation’s needs with the student so that they can scope and plan the project in a way that meets your and their needs.

Students will work full-time on this project. They may work on your premises if appropriate. They may work from home and have meetings with you on your premises if that is more suitable. It is possible, though not preferable, for your interaction to be entirely remote by email and Skype.

Modules at all levels work with external speakers

You have a project or idea that needs some additional research or investigation. Having a group of students (between 10-30) working on this would provide you with useful information and allow the students to develop skills and experience. This may be a one-off session or it may be a few sessions periodically over a couple of months.

Contact

Dr Ryan Burns FHEA
Course Leader, BA (Hons) Media, Industry and Innovation
School of Media, University of Brighton, 606 Watts Building, Brighton BN2 4GJ
(01273 64) 2473
r.burns2@brighton.ac.uk
https://www.brighton.ac.uk/courses/study/media-industry-and-innovation-ba-hons.aspx[:]

[:en]Our class of 2019 worked on a range of topics from Virtual Reality in Education to Charity Marketing. Some examples of Live Project work are included in the links below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selected Student Work, 2019 Graduates:

 

Blake Zocher: http://blakezocher.com/

Emily Miles: https://emily-miles120.wixsite.com/mysite

Giulia Tranquillini:  https://giuliatranquillini1.wixsite.com/onlineportfolio[:de]Our class of 2019 worked on a range of topics from Virtual Reality in Education to Charity Marketing. Some examples of Live Project work are included in the links below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selected Student Work, 2019 Graduates:

Blake Zocher: http://blakezocher.com/

Emily Miles: https://emily-miles120.wixsite.com/mysite

Giulia Tranquillini:  https://giuliatranquillini1.wixsite.com/onlineportfolio

Kelsi Troullos: https://info411162.wixsite.com/website[:]