Media Communications/Culture, Media and Creative Industries

Eve Theobold

Media Communications/Culture, Media and Creative Industries 2025

UWE Bristol’s Media Communications and Culture, Media and Creative Industries degrees feature unique interdisciplinary programmes offering three strands – cultural theory, media making and an industry-facing professional workplace focus. This distinctive offer goes beyond a traditional media studies or media production degree to provide a programme where theory and practice are equally embedded and intertwined. Industry experts offer tools and insight into specialised professional settings such as public relations and social purpose campaigning, whilst practitioners guide students to develop their own critical, creative practice across a range of media.

Rooted in Bristol, the degrees utilise the vibrant creative and

cultural industries sector based here to enable students to test concepts, theories and ideas, often using the city and its creative industries as a living brief. We produce excellent communicators and creative critical thinkers with strong employability (100% in relevant work or education in the latest Graduate Outcomes Survey). The technical skills and communications and project management competencies developed on our degree are innately transferable, leading to agile graduates who go on to work across a wide range of careers in the arts, culture, media and communications industries.

In their final year, our students support each other as a community of practitioners to produce research projects in their chosen area of expertise: photography, online media, sound, video, or via some crossover between these areas. Although working as independent, creative producers across a diverse range of themes, interests and mediums, Media Communications/Culture, Media and Creative Industries students are united by a desire to critique existing media and socio-cultural concerns and encourage people to understand the world differently.