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Disciplinary activities at UCL. Anna Colls and Elaine Denniss UCL Careers Service. Overview. Engaging humanities students DLHE History of Art Institute of Archaeology Year Abroad Questions?. Non-user projects. Non-user surveys High proportion of humanities students
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Disciplinary activities at UCL Anna Colls and Elaine Denniss UCL Careers Service
Overview • Engaging humanities students • DLHE • History of Art • Institute of Archaeology • Year Abroad • Questions?
Non-user projects • Non-user surveys • High proportion of humanities students • Aiming to design our approach to appeal more to these students • 2 day event with prizes • Themed weeks this year and listening campaign
DLHE • Collected via post, phone and email for HESA • Two collections: • Completion 1 Aug - 31 Dec 2008 (census date 20 April 2009) • Completion 1 Jan - 31 July 2009 (census date 11 Jan 2010) • Historically hard-copy summaries handed to departments • Now have DLHE Interactive! • League Tables
Top Five Graduate Level JobsArchaeology Social Science Researchers Conservation Heritage and Environmental Protection Officers Curators (Museum etc) Archivists and Curators
A Career in Ruins Event – Institute of Archaeology Aim of event was to: • provide archaeology students with a broad range of ideas for future careers • provide information about routes in to different career areas and how to gain relevant experience • help students understand the value of their archaeology degree and the transferable skills gained • provide information about post-graduate study
A Career in Ruins - Programme Speakers from diverse range of careers, all with a background in archaeology. Speakers shared their own career experiences/career path and provided information about the opportunities available in their area of work • Careers for archaeologists – overview • Careers in conservation • Careers in museums • Commercial archaeology • Graduate studies • Academic archaeology • Outreach/public archaeology work • Transferable skills • From Archaeology to Business – using your archaeology degree
Top 5 Graduate Level JobsHistory of Art General Office Assistants/Clerks Arts Officers, Advisers and Consultants Sales and Retail Assistants University and Higher Education Lecturers Archivists
History of Art - challenges • Lots of different areas • No obvious graduate employment route • Passion for art not always easy to match onto a specific job • Often need work related skills as well as the interest in art • Can be difficult to get paid work at the start
History of Art - aims • Work experience • Insight into the cultural sector • Clarify where they want to be • Hear from professionals • Hear how people got their jobs • Greater awareness of the different options • Building range of skills
History of Art • 1st yrs PT jobs for Art History Students • 2nd yrs Finding & Getting Internships • 3rd yrs Working in the Arts • All years – Spring Forum with panel of 6 and networking
Careers Support for Language Students – Work Placements The UCL Careers Service provides a number of services for students considering or preparing for a yearabroad work placement. Services include: • Signposting to sources of work placements • One-to-one sessions • Providing help and advice on work placement issues • Blog
Questions? • Anna Colls a.colls@ucl.ac.uk • Elaine Denniss e.denniss@ucl.ac.uk