Disciplinary activities at UCL

Anna Colls and Elaine Denniss

UCL Careers Service

Overview

• Engaging humanities students• DLHE• History of Art• Institute of Archaeology• Year Abroad• Questions?

Non-user projects

• Non-user surveys• High proportion of humanities students• Aiming to design our approach to appeal more to

these students• 2 day event with prizes• Themed weeks this year and listening campaign

DLHE

• Collected via post, phone and email for HESA• Two collections:

– Completion 1 Aug - 31 Dec 2008 (census date 20 April 2009)– Completion 1 Jan - 31 July 2009 (census date 11 Jan 2010)

• Historically hard-copy summaries handed to departments• Now have DLHE Interactive!• League Tables

Work and Study 2008Institute of Archaeology

% of Graduate Level JobsArchaeology

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Top Five Graduate Level JobsArchaeology

Social Science Researchers

Conservation

Heritage and Environmental Protection Officers

Curators (Museum etc)

Archivists and Curators

A Career in Ruins Event – Institute of Archaeology

Aim of event was to:• provide archaeology students with a broad range of ideas

for future careers• provide information about routes in to different career

areas and how to gain relevant experience• help students understand the value of their archaeology

degree and the transferable skills gained• provide information about post-graduate study

A Career in Ruins - Programme

Speakers from diverse range of careers, all with a background in archaeology.

Speakers shared their own career experiences/career path and provided information about the opportunities available in their area of work• Careers for archaeologists – overview• Careers in conservation• Careers in museums• Commercial archaeology• Graduate studies• Academic archaeology• Outreach/public archaeology work• Transferable skills • From Archaeology to Business – using your archaeology degree

Work and Study 2008History of Art

% of Graduate Level JobsHistory of Art

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Top 5 Graduate Level JobsHistory of Art

General Office Assistants/Clerks

Arts Officers, Advisers and Consultants

Sales and Retail Assistants

University and Higher Education Lecturers

Archivists

History of Art - challenges

• Lots of different areas• No obvious graduate employment route• Passion for art not always easy to match onto a

specific job• Often need work related skills as well as the

interest in art• Can be difficult to get paid work at the start

History of Art - aims

• Work experience• Insight into the cultural sector• Clarify where they want to be• Hear from professionals • Hear how people got their jobs• Greater awareness of the different options• Building range of skills

History of Art

• 1st yrs PT jobs for Art History Students• 2nd yrs Finding & Getting Internships• 3rd yrs Working in the Arts

• All years – Spring Forum with panel of 6 and networking

Year Abroad Resource for Language Students

Careers Support for Language Students – Work Placements

The UCL Careers Service provides a number of services for students considering or preparing for a year abroad work placement.

Services include:• Signposting to sources of work placements • One-to-one sessions • Providing help and advice on work placement issues • Blog

Questions?

• Anna Colls a.colls@ucl.ac.uk• Elaine Denniss e.denniss@ucl.ac.uk