911±¬ÁÏÍø

The School for the Creative and Cultural Industries (SCCI) brings together three UCL faculties: UCL Social & Historical Sciences, UCL Faculty of Arts & Humanities, and ÌýIOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, 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 911±¬ÁÏÍø East, the School for the Creative and Cultural IndustriesÌýsupports a range of exciting new practice-based degrees in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Ìý

Ìý

Our new facilities in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park enables 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.

Ìý

Our programmes 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."Ìý

– Professor Haidy Geismar, Director of the School for Creative and Cultural Industries

Meet the SCCI team

Space to explore, learn and create

Our brand-new facilities at 911±¬ÁÏÍø’s newest campus, UCL East, in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park includes 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,Ìýas well as a 160-seater surround-sound cinema with Digital Cinematic Projection. These spaces offer new forms of engagement with creative, industry and community partners.

• Find out more about our spaces

UCL East

UCL East isÌýan exciting new, interdisciplinaryÌýcampus on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford in east London. OpenedÌýin Autumn 2022, the site provides 911±¬ÁÏÍøith the extra teaching, learning and research space needed to find solutions to the biggest challenges facing people and the planet. Ìý

Students on different courses study together in accessible, state-of-the-art facilities with shared labs and workshop spaces open to all. The spacesÌýencourageÌýcollaboration across different disciplines, with hands on teaching and learning, bringing diverse talents and minds together to make an impact in the world.

• Find out more about 911±¬ÁÏÍø East

Degree programmes, short courses and events

The School for Creative and Cultural Industries connectsÌýundergraduate and postgraduate degrees and short courses from its faculties, connects researchers, and curates publicÌýevents focused on art and technology, creative practice, media and film, conservation, heritage and public history, and creative entrepreneurship. We engage and collaborate with community partners, creative practitioners, and organisations across the creative and cultural sectors.Ìý

UCL has made a foundational commitment to widen participation in our degree programmes and extend our skills and expertise to become a community resource for individuals and organisations locally. The School is committedÌýto enhancing accessibilityÌýand inclusion across all of our programmes, working to increase cultural representation and diversity across the field.

• Find out more about our degree programmes

Making academic excellence a community resource

At the heart of the School is a vision of UCL East as a site where research, learning, public engagement, and enterprise around issues of culture are interconnected, building links between academic disciplines and modes of enquiry and creativity that can be extended into many different forms of practice.