Creative Industries Unlocked

Creative Industries Unlocked is designed for students in Year 12 or their first year of college who are interested in learning more about careers in the creative industries.

If you're interested in the Spring 2025 programme and will be in Year 12 in September 2024 please apply using the application form link below. 

Apply for the Spring 2025 programme

Programme content
Eligibility criteria
Dates and times

Programme content

In this four week virtual programme students will learn about working in the creative and cultural sector and the skills needed to succeed. They will learn how skills gained by studying an Arts or Humanities degree will set you up for a career in the creative industries.

Students will complete online sessions on Creative Technology, Publishing and Archiving and hear from professionals working in the creative sector.

Eligibility criteria

The programme is only open to students who meet all of the following criteria.

You must:

  • be a Home fee student;
  • attend a state school or college;
  • be in Y12 or your first year of college

If the programme is oversubscribed, we will prioritise students who meet our widening participation criteria:

  • are or have been eligible for free school meals;
  • live in an IMD quintile 1 area as defined by your home postcode;
  • be considered a mature student (over 21 years old when you will begin your degree);
  • are from a Black or Asian background or of a mixed background featuring one of these groups*;
  • have spent three or more months in local authority care;
  • are currently an estranged student;
  • are from Gypsy, Traveller, Roma, Showmen and Boater (GTRSB) communities;
  • attend an aspiring state school or college;
  • are from any other minority ethnic background;
  • are part of the first generation in their family to go to university;
  • have caring responsibilities;
  • have refugee status;
  • have a disability;
  • have a parent or carer who currently serves in the UK Armed Forces, or who has done so in the past.

*With additional priority assigned to the following underrepresented ethnic groups at UoB: Asian Pakistani; Asian Bangladeshi; Black Caribbean; Black African; or of a mixed backgrounds featuring one of these groups.

Dates and times

Provisional 2025 programme dates - to be confirmed:
Tuesday 4th March        
Tuesday 11th March        
Tuesday 18th March
Tuesday 25th March