University Centre Peterborough Host ‘Break Into The Creative Industry’ Day For Peterborough and Stamford Media Students

Last week, University Centre Peterborough hosted a wide array of industry professionals for their ‘Break into the Creative Industry’ day, laid on for the current Level 3 Media students at Stamford and Peterborough College.

The day kicked off with introductions from the University’s Curriculum Leader of Journalism & Media Production, Rachel Pishhorn, who spoke through all things UCP and the importance of building your ‘network’ in the industry. Rachel then handed over to current students of UCP, to talk about the student blog, ‘Inside the Box’.

‘Inside the Box’ is a student-run blog, which is open to College and University students who want to share anything they have written or created. This was an opportunity to share the great work that our students do, and encourage the next wave of students to get involved and to start putting themselves out there. To see how you can get involved, or to see some of the wonderful work our students have done, click here: https://www.insidetheboxucp.com/

Following this were two speakers from BBC Cambridgeshire, Heather Noble, Senior Producer, and Nick Carter, Station Sound Producer & Presenter. They led their talk with a quick introduction to themselves, and their careers so far, before opening up the floor to questions from the students. This was a great opportunity for students to rack the brains of two people who had been working for the BBC for many years, across many different platforms.

Some of the questions included ‘What do you look for in potential employees?’, ‘How do you create a great interview?’ and ‘Who is the most famous person you have met?’, for which Heather remarked about a time she swore in front of the former Queen!

They then ran a great workshop based around their podcast ‘Mental Muscle’, in which the students were tasked to come up with new ways to market the podcast. Amazingly, a student impressed them so much with their idea that they were asked to come to the BBC and help them work on the podcast.