[PAID] UK Industry employed? Solent University needs your help

AzzaMat

Hey there polycount. I work at Solent University and we are always looking for people in industry to come down and talk to our students! The art course is one of the only skillset accredited courses in the UK but what we need is to give students more opportunities to meet people in industry.

So what can you expect to do when you come down? Well that's up to you, generally the choices range from;

a critique session (looking at students portfolios and offering one on one advice).

Doing a talk about life in the games industry.

Doing a talk on a specific aspect (or broad theory) of game design.

So if your interested in coming down then PM me, If you have any questions then post up on the thread.

Thanks for reading. =D

marks

Last time I emailed the course leader offering to come down and do a talk, I didn't even get a reply. Just sayin'

AzzaMat

I'm sorry about that we must of missed it. I am now Industry Liaison for the course so hopefully we won't have that problem again. If your still interested in coming down then PM me.

d1ver

I don't suppose you fly folks over from Canada?)

AzzaMat

unfortunately not are budget doesn't stretch as far as flights. we are looking into doing online talks though

d1ver

Hm, that's interesting. How does that go?

AzzaMat

well we are thinking of having online conferences with groups of industry professionals. We send over student portfolios and then they get live feedback.

ambershee

I've never heard of Solent. The lack of a link in your original post strikes me as a bit telling

AzzaMat

Sorry your right I should of posted some links, Our main website is here.

http://www.solent.ac.uk/home.aspx

Though our course page is currently under reconstruction. Our course is also one of the only skillset accredited courses in the UK.

http://courses.creativeskillset.org/pick_the_tick_degree_courses/accredited_computer_games_courses/southampton_solent_university

Only 15 courses have received skillset accreditation. Out of those only 4 are art courses (Including ours). Out of that only That alone should show you we are not "telling".

By no means does this mean we are for everyone and I'm not trying to enlist people. I want to help my current students by getting as many industry professionals in as possible. To help critique there work and help them start to build bridges that they can use to get a foot in the door.