Christopher Morris' A Year in a Field

The creative and cultural industries are the UK’s fastest growing sector and a major contributor to the economy. UCL’s new School for the Creative and Cultural Industries (SCCI) will support and develop the next generation of practitioners to work across these sectors and beyond in any environment that values the creative human perspective.Our interdisciplinary school links teaching and research focused on technology, media, history, heritage, collections and conservation, and art and creativity. It connects three academic faculties: UCL Social & Historical Sciences, UCL Faculty of Arts & Humanities, and IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society. SCCI will foster new research partnerships and forms of innovative engagement with industry partners, cultural institutions and communities, as well as bringing together a range of degree programmes within its cutting-edge facilities at UCL East.The School for the Creative and Cultural Industries (SCCI) brings together three UCL faculties: UCL Social & Historical Sciences, UCL Faculty of Arts & Humanities, and UCL's Faculty of Education and Society (The IOE) linking teaching and research across arts, humanities, and social sciences, fostering new research partnerships and new forms of innovative engagement with industry and the community."With a series of innovative new spaces for teaching and research at UCL East, the School for the Creative and Cultural Industries will support a range of exciting new practice-based degrees in the arts, humanities and social sciences.Our new facilities in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will enable cutting-edge research, learning and public engagement focused on art, technology, culture, media, technology, history and heritage, forging links between academics, local communities, and creative and cultural practitioners.Our programmes will support and develop the next generation of critically engaged practitioners and scholars to work in academia, across the cultural and creative sectors, and anywhere where creative and critical thinking are valued."– Professor Haidy Geismar, Director of the School for Creative and Cultural IndustriesOur brand-new facilities at UCL’s newest campus, UCL East, in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park School will include media production studios, art conservation labs, new spaces for curating collections and learning from objects, specialist archival and recording technology to support oral history projects, and new forms of digital archiving, as well as a 160-seater surround-sound cinema with Digital Cinematic Projection. These spaces will be publicly accessible and will offer new forms of engagement with both industry and community partners.