BA Honours Contemporary Media Practice

Our students go on to occupy prominent positions in the world of business, the creative industries, science and the arts.

Graduates from Contemporary Media Practice have a high employment rate in many aspects of the media industries and professions. This includes: film direction, production and editing; BBC production and education departments; Channel 4 programming; internet design and start-up companies; commercial photography and photojournalism; photographic, video and media artists exhibiting internationally.

Each year our students win prizes, have their work shown in major festivals and gain employment in the field of their choice. We also have a strong record in preparing graduates for postgraduate study across a range of both practical and theoretical disciplines, as well as postgraduate teacher training.

Graduate employment and opportunities in the media industries have notably shifted over the past few years, and graduates from this course have demonstrated their responsiveness to these changes. We regularly monitor graduate career destinations, using this information to review the course curriculum.

• Aaqil Ahmed - Head of Religious Programming, BBC (previously Commissioning Editor, Channel 4)
• Darren Bender - Film and TV producer (Exhibit A, Stephen Fry's Shorts)
• Ruth Breslaw - Production coordinator and casting assistant (Code 46, A Cock & Bull Story)
• Holly Clarke - Group Head of UK Operations Team, Unruly Media
• Martha Fiennes - Film and music video director (Onegin, Chromophobia)
• Ori Gersht - Photographer and internationally exhibiting artist (Tate, Guggenheim)
• Philip Meech - Photojournalist / freelancer (eg The Independent, & many commercial clients)
• Zed Nelson - Photographer (editorial and reportage, eg The Guardian, TIME Magazine)
• Remi Paringaux - Art Editor, Dazed & Confused
• Rafi Pitts - Film & TV director (It’s Winter, Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty, Sanam)
• Sohail Rahman - Presenter and journalist, Al Jazeera
• Tom Roope - Designer and artist (Tomato Interactive), founder of Antirom new media art collective
• Carl Schoenfeld – Raindance Film Festival
• Elliott Jay Stocks - Freelance web designer and writer (clients include: The Beatles, EMI, Massive Attack)
• Anand Tucker - Film & TV director / producer (Hilary & Jackie, Shopgirl, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Red Riding:1983)