UAL Storytelling Fellowship 2024-2025

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The opportunity

The Storytelling Fellowship programme is now accepting applications for the 2024 cohort.

This year we are offering up to eight fellows a free training programme in impact production. Fellows will learn the skills of impact production, routes to impact and develop impact plans and campaigns for their projects.

Impact Production is a profession and set of skills that has developed over the last 18 years, out of the work of DocSociety and their Impact Field Guide. Originally developed for documentary producers this practice is being used in  other genres such as XR, theatre and writing.

This programme takes the training of impact production into a wider range of disciplines including TV, fiction film, novels, non-fiction writing, journalism, theatre, XR/immersive/interactive, games and audio/podcasts, animation, comic books and creative documentaries and docufiction.

About you

Your commitment to the Fellowship

You will be required to attend:

• 1 online pre-meeting of up to 2 hours (08 November at 2pm GMT)
• 5 in-person full days in London, 25-29 November 2024
• 6 online mentor sessions, December – May 2025
• 3 online group mentor sessions January, March and May 2025
• 1 online closing session in May or June 2025

As part of the workshop sessions, we will set aside time each day for reflections on what you learned. You should also be prepared to participate in group meetings to discuss learnings and to be interviewed by the Institute team and/or to complete surveys as part of our evaluation process. <4>Your other professional commitments

You can have other professional commitments while being a Fellow but we need your full commitment for the in-person Lab week, mentorship programme and online activities (like the pre-Fellowship meeting). It will not be possible for you to do any other work during the week of the lab.

Your project might be part of your work or a sideline or a core part of your work for the year.

Eligibility Criteria

You can apply if you are:

• a self-employed freelancer
• a part-time employee who can commit to the fellowship in addition to your existing work commitments
• a full-time employees who have the support of their host organisation.

Right to work in the UK

You do not need to be a British citizen but you must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the Fellowship.

The AKO Storytelling Institute will not financially support visa applications for entry to the UK.

In order to be considered, please check the ‘Application process’ section at the end of the job board advert or refer to further details available on UAL Storytelling Fellowship 24-25 | UAL (arts.ac.uk)

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

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