Industry partnerships

The School of Creatives works with companies and organisations across the creative industries sector to provide mutually beneficial experiences, including Pixotope, Festival Republic, Reach plc, UK Music and Ritzy Animation.

“UK Music love working with the team at University of Gloucestershire. They are a super-engaged and enthusiastic group of lecturers who utilise the relationship in a really positive way for the maximum benefit of the students.” – Oli Morris, director of education and skills at UK Music

If you would like to explore establishing a partnership with the School of Creatives, contact Dr Tom Bradshaw, our head of employer engagement and employability: [email protected]

In an exciting development this 2022-23 academic year. we are thrilled to announce that we are collaborating with leading virtual production platform Pixotope to provide students with access to the latest technological innovation and prepare them for careers in virtual production.

The School of Creatives has joined the innovative Pixotope Education Program.

This initiative, designed by Pixotope specifically for universities and other education institutions, includes access to virtual production software tools to create virtual studios, augmented reality and extended reality experiences.

Developed as a response to the talent shortage in virtual production, the Pixotope Education Program helps to ensure that courses meet rapidly evolving industry needs by linking educators with industry and enables students to develop skills using the latest virtual production tools and benefit from networking opportunities with employers.

Our partnership with Pixotope is part of a major investment in our virtual production facilities.

We are focused on teaching the latest story-telling techniques to our students, on courses ranging from Animation and Digital Media to Film Production and Journalism.

Working with industry is something we do every day in the School of Creative Industries to ensure that our curricula are up to date, that our students have the latest industry insights, and that industry in turn has access to our bright and creative students.

The jobs market in the creative industries does not stand still and nor do we. Through our education partnership with Pixotope, we are preparing our students to be in the best possible position for securing the best graduate jobs of the future.

Dr Tom Bradshaw, Associate Professor of Employability within the School of Creatives

Looking ahead, the University plans to work with Pixotope to develop a Master’s programme in digital media as another pathway to building the virtual production talent pipeline

We can’t overstate our excitement about working with University of Gloucestershire’s students and staff. University of Gloucestershire is an incredible partner for the Pixotope Education Program.

Our relationship is founded on open communication about the needs of today’s virtual production students and how we can work together to meet those needs.

Carina Schoo, Pixotope Education Program Manager