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Launch of the School for the Cultural and Creative Industries (SCCI)

2 November 2023

UCL's School for the Creative and Cultural Industries (SCCI) celebrated its official launch on the 11th October. Find out more about how the Faculty is involved and read a spotlight interview with Professor Haidy Geismar, the Director of SCCI and a Professor of Anthropology.

Attendees at the launch for the School for the Creative and Cultural Industries

On 11th October the UCL School for the Creative and Cultural Industries (SCCI) celebrated its official launch and unveiled a new exhibition in the Culture Lab - Power! The celebration was held in the newly opened Marshgate building at UCL East where SCCI showcased some of its state-of-the-art spaces and highlighted teaching and research by its academics and programmesYou can read more about the launch here

Get to know: Haidy Geismar, Director of SCCI and Professor of Anthropology


About SCCI and how the Faculty is involved

UCL’s new School for the Creative and Cultural Industries (SCCI) links teaching and research focused on technology, media, history, heritage, collections and conservation, and art and creativity. It connects three academic faculties: UCL Social & Historical SciencesUCL Faculty of Arts & Humanities, and IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society. SCCI will foster new research partnerships and forms of innovative engagement with industry partners, cultural institutions and communities, as well as bringing together a range of degree programmes within its cutting-edge facilities at UCL East.

Through SCCI, the Faculty will be delivering its new postgraduate and undergraduate degree programmes at UCL East. This range of degree programmes spans four of our departments (AnthropologyHistoryHistory of Art and Institute of Archaeology), in subjects including Heritage, Sustainability and Society, Public History, Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media, and Ethnographic and Documentary Film. 

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