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Notes on design, research, creative enterprise education, teaching and an unhealthy love of charts! fbrownwork.com

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Creative Enterprise Month at Accelerator

Championing Creative Business through Education

Creative enterprise education has been proven as valuable for both employability and to provide the skills necessary to create a financially sustainable creative practice which is why we support the development of those improving research, teaching and support in the field, helping to build connections with industry and providing excellent opportunities to creative students and graduates hoping to enter the creative industries.

We have created a program of events to teach, inspire and share creative enterprise knowledge.  

12th June - Insight and Inspiration Roadshow Launch 19th June – CASS & Accelerator Showcase – Networking/Exhibition 20th June – Now or Never – Creative Start Day

Insight and Inspiration Creative Enterprise Roadshow 12th June 10am – 5pm Accelerator London

NACUE Create, Enterprise Educators UK, Accelerator and Frances Brown (London Metropolitan University) are delighted to present the launch event of the Insight & Inspiration Roadshow, hosted at the Accelerator Business Incubator in London. This event follows on from the success of Insight & Inspiration; an introduction to enterprise education for creative subject students, authored by Frances Brown and will be a forum to share best practice in creative enterprise education practice and research, bringing together educators from across universities, colleges, think-tanks, NGO’s and leading independent entrepreneurs and creative students. Our goal is to share the outstanding work being pioneered in creative enterprise education, inform the next edition of the guide and its supporting online resource and to create networks of like-minded people.

Speakers include:

Dr Charlotte Carey – Birmingham City University Emilia Telese  - University of Brighton Neil Leonard – Design Your Career Liam Rollings – The Design Wire Roxanne Reynolds – ARTAM John Bound – Royal College of Art

Free to EEUK members, Nacue and Accelerator Community and London Met Staff

(Book here)

CASS & ACCELERATOR Creative Enterprise Showcase  19th June 6.30pm – 8pm Cass Faculty of Art and Design (Central House) Networking/Exhibition until 9pm 

Highlighting creative businesses coming from The Cass and Accelerator.  The evening will include short industry talks, creative business exhibition and special showcase from ARTAM.

Don't worry the main attractions will be over with plenty of time for England match!

Open to all!

(RSVP Here)

Now or Never Creative Career Day 20th June 9.30am – 5pm Accelerator London

Students and Graduates can Pick and Mix a day of training, Q+As, inspiration and opportunities from businesses and employers across the creative industries including Karen Millen, Sales Gossip, Squid London, Urban Outfitters and More!

Open to all London Met Students and Graduates

(Sign-up Here) 

- See more at: http://www.accelerator-london.com/blog/uncategorized/creative-enterprise-month-london-met/#sthash.Qif3JY7Q.dpuf

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PhD Writing Holiday

I'm on Holiday... Well it's the last day of my self-imposed hermit holiday in Portugal to write and absorb some much needed vitamin d!

Since the move to London I've been flat out and completely neglecting the PhD.  I'd left it so long I couldn't remember where I was in the process so this trip has been amazing to refocus.  What's also been great is how much clearer everything seems in terms of how I will structure all the data and the message I want to give in my recommendations after a good long break.  Fresh eyes (and looming deadline) do wonders for productivity and drive!

Have really enjoyed taking a last look at the coding and starting to look at how I will approach the information design for the thesis.  

Now the challenge is keeping up pace when I get back to real life on Monday!

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What's Up: Accelerator London + Enterprise London Met

Since moving down to London I've been up to lots of interesting things and having ball at Accelerator which is a great place to work, lots of fun and a brilliant enterprising environment to work in.

The London Met Enterprise department is based here, which is great for students who get to learn in a building full of businesses and startups from 1 month to 4 years old in a range of different industries which is a brilliant opportunity that students feed back as being something they love about taking part in enterprise events with us.

A few things we've been up to:

The Hatchery - Is our student and graduate startup programme.  Think accelerator programme LITE.  Hatchery Tenants selected from our bootcamp have 6 months with us where they form their own community of startups, attend social and educational sessions and are mentored by the team towards one of our three main goals:

•To be generating income and be self sufficient enough to move into paid office space to keep building their businesses. •To have developed their businesses to a stage ready for investment or more specialised acceleration programmes. •To have learnt and failed quickly within our low-risk environment, ready to start something new with great networks and experience on their side.

http://www.accelerator-london.com/blog/uncategorized/welcome-hatchery/

Big Idea Challenge - This year at Enterprise London Met we decided to do things a little differently, after 11 years of a hugely successful business plan competition we thought we would shake things up and create a competition that was accessible to the wide range of students and graduates, was based on ACTION, communication and reflection!

"In the Big Idea Challenge Round 1 we invite you to tell us about problems you think need solving in order to win cash prizes… Simple as that. It’s ok if you can’t think of a solution at this stage – we want the problems to start with!  Winners from round 1will be invited to round 2 to work with experts to solve problems, develop your concept and create a video and crowd-support campaign for your idea.  The final round is a pitch to a panel of experts fighting for money and support to help make you Big Ideas a reality."

We threw the challengers in the deep end with only 6 days to create a video and 6 days to promote it, with many challengers having never made a video or even having a twitter account before the challenge.  We are just about to launch into the final round but were astounded by the crowd-support campaigns that got 101,978 interactions with the videos, facebook comments and twitter endorsements!

Valuing Student Talent - Enterprise at London Met thrives because we utilise our strongest resource which is our students.  Our students co-ordinate activities within the building and our events, they work on our social media campaigns, they are responsible for the interior design of the building and the complete refit of the Hatchery, they make our marketing material and they run the Entrepreneurs Society LME from our office.  We also know how student confidence can be built by working with those outside of their own discipline in events that paid up students with our Hatchery businesses such as the CollabJAM.  We also host the Fashion Marketing - Fashion Business Project here at Accelerator, helping students to create and launch their own fashion businesses.

Collaboration and Network Events - Accelerator is a community and we think that what makes us special is how we support each other in-house and how we utilise the talent and expertise within our community and in the wider London Met and Tech City communities.  Some of the things we do to encourage networking and support are pizza and pitch nights, social events and crowd-mentoring evenings.

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Farewell Luka and Insight and Inspiration Update

Firstly a big farewell to my creative enterprise partner is crime of the last few years Luka Blackman-Gibbs, who has gone on to pastures new at Pearson.  We had some great times working on NacueCreate and the Insight and Inspiration book and I will really miss being able to work with her but we do have our new NacueCreate manager Curran McKay @CurranMcKay who has taken over the reigns.

Before Luka left, she wrote an update on the guide which you can find here.  We printed 1000 copies that have all gone which is brilliant.  A few more stats I've pulled from her blog that are great to hear are:

"The numbers!

We received over 600 requests for hard copies of the guides! Some of these were orders for 15 or so for training purposes.

The digital copy of the guide has been downloaded or sent to over 160 educators.

The guide has been received by educators from schools, further education institutions, higher education institutions and students…from Teaching Assistants, Heads of Departments and Deans and Principles.

The majority of the guides have been received by educators who are UK based, but we’ve also received requests from Europe, North America and Indonesia."

What Now?

In the feedback section there were lots of calls for an updated guide as practice moves so quickly, ways to share resources and a live event to go with the guide...

So that's what we are going to do!

It's all in the early stages, but Enterprise Educators UK, Curran and I will be working together to meet these requests launching in June... More on that soon!

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Quick video from Cardiff Inspiring Enterprise week on what inspires me in my work and at Accelerator London.

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I'm Alive!

I’m ALIVE!

I bet you were all worried!  Last November I moved to London for a two week job which quickly became a full time, long term job!

It’s been a really exciting time, but very hectic so I’ve been neglecting my Blog.  However, now that I have changed my hours to have official PhD days I should be able to get back on it!

So what have I been up to?

 ...I am working in Accelerator London as the Creative Enterprise Manager, it’s my ideal location in the middle of Creative Shoreditch, the hub of the East London digital and tech start-up community, working with a brilliant team.

Accelerator London is a specialist incubator for tech and digtal start-ups although we have a variety of businesses in our Hatchery (more on that later).  The Accelerator is connected to London Met University and along with the enterprise team, Rich Celm and Simon Boot, includes developing enterprise activities for students and graduates,  running our start-up hatchery, creating and exciting and strong community for the incubated businesses and developing ways for students and businesses to work together.

I also pay special attention to the Cass Faculty of Art and Design to create opportunities for their students and where I spent a few months at the start of this job working with a team improving student experience.

You can find me online here (Accelerator) and here (The Cass).

Will be blogging about our activities in detail soon as well as other events I've been taking part in.

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London + GEW

Global Entrepreneurship Week so far has been fun, popped up with my 'take a step forward' poster in the GEW Newsletter and created a workbook for the brilliant jewellery design studio and business incubator Vanilla Ink in Dundee.  

I'm now in London until mid December for the rest of GEW and to work on Starting and Creative Enterprise projects.  I'm also looking forward to meeting with the good folk at Arts Emergency to talk arts education and skills development.

For GEW I'll have two hats on; firstly attending events with Alex Barton to promote and engage students in using the http://starti.ng platform to ask questions about business and secondly will be doing some promo for the Insight and Inspiration Guide.

I'm particularly looking forward to ShellLivewireLIVE! and the LiveWIRE Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Ceremony and the London Met Hatchery Launch at Accelerator London on Friday.  Last time I was at the Hatchery I heard about the initiative to work with Design and Furniture students from The Cass to design, fit and furnish the new incubator space which looked great so I'll take some pictures and get some details while I'm down.  And finally I'll be finishing off the week with NACUE’s Varsity Pitch Grand Final Friday night.

Working on one of the Hatchery beanbags on my last visit - Post on the student interiors project coming soon!

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Introduction to Enterprise Education for Creative Subject Students

I've been waiting to do a full post on this until I had proper copy in my hand... and now I do hurrah!  Will do a quick breakdown of the book and post-some pictures.  Order details at the end of the post.

“The guide is a simple, cut-to-the-chase tool for any educator or indeed any person hoping to create a valuable learning experience for a creative subject student. I hope this guide will inform (or perhaps just confirm what they’ve suspected all along) and encourage readers, to create fun, engaging and valuable programmes for their creative students.” Luka Blackman-Gibbs, Head of NACUE Create.

I wrote the guide with two main audiences in mind; creative subject educators who may be introducing additional enterprise education into their curriculum and would like some inspiration for framing this alongside their students' creative development and enterprise educators who may be interested in getting to know a little more about how creative subject students think, work and what they value.  It was important that the guide included the student and graduate voice so there are lots of quotes collected during my PhD study.   Educators and business owners gave their insights and tips which helps to contextualise and support concepts in the guide.  Thanks to:

Alex Barton, Founder of Student Designers and Starti.ng Alison Coward, Bracket Creative Matthew Draycott, Enterprise Educator and Entrepreneur Jenna Hubbard, Freelance Dancer and Lecturer at DeMontfort University Natalie Norton, Enterprise Educator at Winchester University Kate Pickering, Jeweller and Owner of Vanilla Ink Studios Dr Kelly Smith, Enterprise Educator at Huddersfield University, a director of ISBE and past chair of Enterprise Educators UK

Advice and editing help from Dr Philip Ely (University of Portsmouth), Professor Martin Woolley and Professor Mark Evans (Coventry University), Professor Andy Penaluna (Swansea Metropolitan University) who also wrote the foreword and Annette Naudin (Birmingham City University) who also wrote the creative industries introduction.

I created six main theme groups for enterprise skills which are used throughout the guide to mark relevant information and activities so if you have a particular skills theme you are developing a session for you can quickly flick through and see what content is suitable.

Part one includes insight from students and educators and an overview of challenges you may face in creating enterprise education initiatives for creative subjects as well as discussions of the nuances of the industry they will enter on graduation and skills they will need to be successful in their chosen field.

Part two presents inspiration from the activities I have run in the past and found to be useful as well as really exciting programmes and approaches from universities across the UK.  The What's On section builds on an original guide I created as part of my MA at Dundee University.  I am in the process of documenting new activities for a future collection so get in touch if there are things you'd like me to highlight and share. 

The illustrations in the book are by last year's DJCAD illustration graduate Izzie MacLeod who I spotted at their degree show.  You can see her other work here.

Order your free print copy here

Download your free PDF copy here

Enjoy!

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Fuel RCA - Creative Enterprise at the Royal College of Art

Image: @FuelRCA - All rights reserved

Much to my chagrin I realised that in the What's On section of the Insight and Inspiration guide I had completely missed off a link to FuelRCA who are doing (and have been for a good while) brilliant creative enterprise work for their students and graduates and the public as well as having a website with vast amounts of open information for those not connected to the university.  I will put an (O) next to elements that are publicly accessible.

In this post I'll introduce you to some of the great work they are doing and particular bits of the site that I really like.  They will certainly be the first to go into the next What's On guide!

Image: @FuelRCA - All rights reserved

The Library

FuelRCA have a dedicated creative business book library where students and grads can access and abundance of information.  What they also have on their site is a full book list (O) broken down into topics so even those without library access can have some inspiration into what books are out there to suit a particular skill area they are interested in reading up on.

Mentoring + Advice

FuelRCA have partnerships with PriceWaterhouseCooper (PWC) and the Royal Designers for Industry (RDI) to provide mentoring programmes for RCA Alumni.  In addition to the structured mentoring programmes the FuelRCA hotline is a great idea for those alumni who are no longer based in London but still needs advice in their creative ventures and truly opens up graduate support and connections nationwide which can be an issue when trying to support and keep contact with graduates from far parts of the country.

Photo: @FuelRCA - All rights reserved

Public Events, Streaming and Webinars

Lots of great events are hosted by FuelRCA for students and grads as well as a number that are open to the public (O).  As well as hosting the events they stream live and post each after the event (O) so that those who can't make it in person can see it but also for those who want to recap knowledge at a later date or who benefit from being able to slow down the pace of the information and learn from the speakers and presentations at their own pace.  They also recognise that sometimes events clash with particularly busy times in their students' timetables so events can be watched later or streamed into the studios so they can listen and watch why they work.  In addition to live events they host online open access webinars (O) on all sorts of creative business and personal/professional development topics.

Find their videos on the main site and on their Vimeo channel.

Resources

The webpage host a huge amount of resources (O) and links to external resources that you can access on the main topics of:

Promotion Developing your Practice Getting a Job Legal Money Work/Life Skills

The site has a pop up that invites visitors to suggest what they would like the team to write about next so that they can be responsive to the needs of their audience and is a great idea for an easy communication tool.

Follow FuelRCA

@fuelrca https://www.facebook.com/fuelrca http://fuel.rca.ac.uk/

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Social Animal on the http://Starti.ng Blog

The last few weeks I have been writing a mini blog series over on starti.ng as a place to link to lots of great resources and give introductory tips to those starting out using social media for business. Below is a breakdown of the topics covered:

SOCIAL ANIMAL

Week 1 - The Message + Knowledge Sharing

We discuss two starting goals for social media: Raising Awareness of you or your business - Value, Provision and Network and Sharing - Knowledge and Opportunities.  

Alison Coward of www.bracketcreative.co.uk 

Photo @Alison Coward - all rights reserved @alisoncoward

This blog also includes a special from Alison Coward of Bracket Creative who kindly shared her experiences of the Bracket Mondays knowledge sharing project, key benefits and important considerations for those of you who are starting or upping your presence on social media.

Week 2 - Content for Different Channels

We look at a few popular social media channels (Twitter, Facebook and Blogs) and give examples of how you might shape your content for each channel and what the differences may be.  

Week 3 (Part 1) - Scheduling + Etiquette

We share top-tips for scheduling your social media posts… How often, how to manage and how to behave when using social media and limit any annoying behaviour which is common to new SM users.

Week 3 (Part 2) - Blogging Special from Lucie Kerley

Lucie Kerley of www.lucieloves.co.uk 

Photo ©Lucie Kerley - all rights reserved @luciekerley

We asked Lucie some questions about becoming a blogger and managing her social media.  Lucie also shares her not-to-be-missed top tips for:

a)Identifying and attracting an audience b)Timing and delivery of posts and activity c)Etiquette - good practice and no-no's

Week 4 (Part 1) - Instagram, Pinterest, E-mail Newsletters and Competitions

We look Instagram, Pinterest, newsletters, competitions and the importance of visuals in content.  Different ways to engage with your audience and how to decide which are best for your audience.  

Week 4 (Part 2) - Social Media in Practice, Nikki McWilliams Special

Nikki McWilliams of www.nikkimcwilliams.com

Photo: Nikki McWilliams all rights reserved. @nikkimcwilliams

Nikki Mcwilliams is a designer maker who creates homewares and accessories inspired by British culture, pop art and her love of tea and biscuits!  We focus how she uses a whole range of social media strategies for her business and break each channel down to explain why we think her approach to each is so good.

Week 5 - Video + The 10 commandments of Social Media

On Monday the blog will have a quick look at video media such as YouTube and complete the series with a collection of 10 Commandments for Social Media so stay tuned for that!

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Do I want a replacement print copy of the Insight and Inspiration Guide?

After a slight mix up with the initial print run the new and beautiful (if I do say so myself) Insight and Inspiration Guides are at NACUECreate HQ ready to be sent out.  

If you received one of the first batch and aren't sure if you want a new copy the differences are:

Cosmetic - due to a number of printer mishaps.  The new ones are bigger, have the right cover, are better quality and the formatting is correct. Content - the first version was a print of an early test copy so there a are a few proofing issues and the introduction from NacueCreate is different however the majority of the content is the same.  

You can order a new copy here.  A PDF can be downloaded immediately using this link.

Hope you find it useful and would love any feedback!

For more information on the content of the guide see this post.

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DigiTech Creative Project Materials

The AHRC funded DigiTech project is now over in terms of my running the workshops in HE but the site is complete and the materials are available for educators to download.

The website can be used in two ways:

Firstly as a destination to direct PG students/grads/ECRs who may benefit from seeing what creatives in business are using in regards to digital tools and tech and having the change to explore lots of new options with simple introductions that can help in navigating the masses of options available.  In our tests and workshops the feedback has been weighted positively towards the benefits of learning about new tools through the small case studies as readers can put the tools into context, pick up other hints relating to running a business or working in industry and finding inspiration in the stories of the featured creatives.

Secondly the site can be used as the 'slides' when delivering the workshop to talk participants through the worksheets and learning points.

 Digitech Creative Workshop

We have run this from final year student to PhD/ECR groups of 5 to 35.  It is easy to create relevant discussion suitable for your audience depending on the tips and anecdotes you share which create context.  The full workshop guide is here and below is a quick summary.

1. Use the video on the site to intro the project and the main topics of the workshop which are assessing their own needs in relation to career and professional development and how they could be supported by adopting suitable tools.

2. Use post-its + discussion to collect main concerns from participants about a. Their careers and b. What barriers they have in adopting new Digi tools e.g. time, lack of understanding, money etc.

3. Use the Stories sheet and webpage to study the creatives on the site and the Audit sheet to talk participants through the skill themes and help them to assess their strengths and weaknesses.

4. Use the Explore sheet and webpage to help participants explore their options and the Strategy sheet to map out how and when they can gain these skills to benefit in the rest of study and future career.

5. Bonus Task - if you have time invite participants to use online tools such as Tiki-Toki Timelines or Pinterest to either transform their strategy sheet into an interactive tool linked to online guides and tips for their own use or bring the class together to create a group learning board or timeline supported by identifying areas of high skills within the class to share on the group board or for live collaboration, skill-swaps or learning partners.

Hopefully you find something you can use in your work!

www.digitechcreative.com

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Lots of Lecturing! Gallery Post

Last week I scheduled a long week of guest lectures and workshops for a wee tour from Dundee to London.  

Was lucky enough to meet lots of fab students and their lecturers and talk a lot about future careers, empathy in design and in a VERY last minute booking... Design thinking for fashion marketing.  I was also delivering the last batch of Digitech Creative  workshops at 4 universities although I won't add photos from all of those as all the same worksheets etc. If you want more info on the digitech workshops see www.digitechcreative.com

Below are a few snaps...

Textiles MA/PhD at Heriot-Watt, Galashiels Campus

Digital Technology and Creative Enterprise Workshop at Gala was really interesting for me as my first degree was in textiles at DJCAD.  Also the combination of fashion marketing and textile design students led to some great chats as did the mix of international students and their approaches to social media/networking and privacy on the internet.

Critical Contexts Research Module, Huddersfield University

At Huddersfield University I ran an intense lecture/workshop including empathy in design research, personas, wicked problems and 'unsolvables' challenge.  It was very fast paced and interesting because of the diverse range of MAs being studied by the group and how different this sort of workshop was to their creative skills based learning experiences.

This same group also had an afternoon Digitech session that was good fun and very vocal!

Fashion Marketing BA(Hons), London Metropolitan University

I made a very quick trip to London to run a lecture with a large group of fashion marketing students in their final year.  We looked at how a human centered and design thinking approach can be used in fashion marketing to move beyond demographics and really understand the individual customer and how behaviors are affected by lifestyle, culture, aspiration and emotion.  The group was introduced to methods such as cultural probes, narratives, personas, ethnography, photo journals and shadowing.  The lecture was part of a fairly new module being run in partnership between the fashion marketing degree and the London Met Student Enterprise Department located in the Accelerator Business Incubator.  After the lecture the students had a great talk from jewellers BAM-B who studied on 'The Fashion Project' last year and won funding, support and hatchery space from Accelerator.

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Made a Facebook page for work.  Come and say hi!

https://www.facebook.com/frances.brown.71066

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Bootstrapping Enterprise + Careers Offer

I'm back from my mad week of travelling and teaching and prepping for an exciting HE consultancy.  What is interesting about this work is that there are very strict financial constraints to work with.  I have a fixed term to audit infrastructure, culture and needs and to implement changes within the department that have a very low impact in terms of staff time needed to ensure the sustainability of the changes after the consultancy has finished.  Working in this way is interesting for me as I hear over and over that there is no budget for improving the enterprise and careers offer for students and graduates (despite its clear impact on student satisfaction and graduate prospects) but there are so many small changes that can be implemented that will make a big difference.  What is necessary however is some investment in time or money for someone to really discover what is needed and how best to introduce new approaches suitable to the individual cultures of each department.  I'm can't wait to get going on this because I think that there are ways to bootstrap and provide valuable opportunities and learning experiences without breaking the bank but universities need champions to convince those in charge of decisions and purse strings that it is better to start small than do nothing at all.

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Creative Futures at Coventry University

When I was back at my University for a PhD catch up I dropped in on the creative career center run by Karen Cass.  A few years ago I did a quick audit of the careers and enterprise offer and made some recommendations for the Art and Design school while I was helping out during my PhD study.  It was good to see that some of these were in place and the great the work Karen was doing to establish Creative Futures in the department by working with staff and students to see how she could best meet their needs.

A few of my recommendations (these are all quite simple to establish, don't take a lot of time or budget and are focussed on communication with stakeholders):

•A starting and (in many cases more importantly) a LEAVING pack.

Karen has made a pack that outlines all the opportunities for students and graduates from Creative Futures, from the wider university, locally and nationally as well as hint and tips and lots of links to helpful resources.  Leaving packs are important to help lessen the transition between student and graduate looking for their first job or setting out on their own.  Many grads report feelings of abandonment and lack of direction so a leaving pack can play an important role in setting them up with avenues to explore as well as outlining the ways that their university will continue to support them.

•A summary of talks and activities offered by the Creative Fututes that staff can easily select from and insert into the curriculum.

As Creative Futures had existed within the department previously but had undergone a location and staffing change there was some confusion as to the changes in its offer and goals so it was important for all staff to know the useful ways Creative Futures could benefit their students and how creative enterprise and employability could be embedded.  Below shows the 'menu' of support that Karen offers with tips on when each element is best suited e.g. 1st years/Final years and where other services such the main careers service can come in to offer relevant talks.

•A clearly communicated destination physical or digital where staff, students and graduates can go for advice and opportunities.

Again due to the closure and reopening of the original Creative Futures it was important to reestablish itself and its offer.  In addition it was important to the surveyed students and graduates that there was a place they could go to find information for themselves and have someone to talk to.

The new Creative Futures:

Karen has put into place a new approach for Creative Futures including acquiring a multipurpose space for Creative Futures staff as well as for students and graduates working on careers and business development away from the studio.  There are a number of hot-desks, lockers and seating.  In small area created with bookshelves there is a creative careers library and resource space, graduate art work, chalkboard for discussions and news as well as boards inviting anonymous feedback from users.  One thing I really like is that the colour scheme in the room is the same as that used in the leaving pack and other documents which is a great start in establishing at-a-glance recognition of Creative Futures within the department.

@futuresad

Karen also led a project last year funded by Enterprise Educators UK (EEUK) called Creatives in Business (Learning Objects) which created open source videos for use in teaching creative enterprise.  You can access the videos and supporting material here.

@creativesIB 

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Creative Careers Textbook - For Students

After writing the Insight and Inspiration guide which was supported by Nacue Create I started thinking about how creating a publication for students to use to work through important development themes if they were at one of the many universities who do not have dedicated support for creative careers or staff who have time to deliver enterprise within the curriculum in an expanded way.

After speaking to an academic publisher I will be putting in a proposal in a few weeks and have really been enjoying mapping the textbook out, experimenting with tone and delivery that is engaging, supportive and sometimes amusing for students.  A textbook that could be used by staff to deliver their own programmes or could be worked through by the student alone.

What I am really keen on doing is filling the book with lots of exercises and photo-copyable/downloadable worksheets.  In the insight and inspiration guide I described activities and useful themes but there was not the opportunity to creative a ready-to-use resource which is something that I am very interested in.