Global Creative Industries

Are you passionate about creativity and looking to turn that passion into a career? This course gives you the skills and knowledge to build a successful career in the exciting world of global creative industries. You’ll explore how technology and global trends shape creativity, and learn what makes human creativity so special. Plus, you’ll get hands-on experience by working with well-known companies or starting your own projects.

The cultural and creative industries are a vital component of the global economy that shape how we understand the world and our place in it. This course is suitable for those with a broad range of interests such as creative arts students, business and economics students, technology enthusiasts, students with a humanities or social sciences background and those who are aspiring entrepreneurs!

Your course will be based in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries, where you will be taught across four Schools in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures and benefit from leading experts in creative industries practice and research.

You’ll be able to tailor the course to your personal ambitions by choosing to study a range of optional modules on themes including Marketing and Audiences, Enterprise and Management, and Policy and Politics. You’ll also have access to guest talks from industry professionals, and you’ll be encouraged to participate in career events such as workshops and networking sessions.

This course will equip you with the skills and confidence to forge your own path into a meaningful and rewarding career as a creative leader, manager, and thinker.

Specialist facilities

Leeds has plenty of valuable resources for Global Creative Industries students.

The School has a wide range of external links with leading arts and cultural organisations including:

• National and international touring theatre companies, DV8 Physical Theatre, Red Ladder and Blah Blah Blah.

• Leeds Playhouse (with which the University has a formal partnership)

• Award winning national opera company Opera North (with which the University has a formal partnership)

• Leeds based companies including: Slung Low, Invisible Flock, Riptide, Manic Chord, Phoenix Dance Theatre, City Varieties Music Hall, Leeds Grand Theatre

• TV film and digital companies and organisations: Channel 4, BBC, Limehouse Productions, Human VR, Live Cinema UK, Megaverse, XR Stories

• Independent artists and producers: Fuel Theatre, Louise Ann Wilson Company, I.O.U., Freedom Studios, Bloomin' Buds, Mind the Gap

• Regional and city-based events including: Compass Festival, Leeds Light Night, Transform Festival, Yorkshire Festival, Kendal Mountain Festival, Furnace Festival

Our School is based in stage@leeds, a purpose-built landmark building that sits at the heart of campus. As our student, you’ll have access to its two professional standard, publicly licensed theatres: the main space seats 180 and is equipped with the latest technologies, and the theatre studio provides a technically advanced performance research facility.

The School’s relationship with the theatre provides many opportunities for you to become involved in its activities both through the curriculum and as volunteers, or as a member of one of the many Student Union performance societies. These opportunities offer the unique experience of working in a professional theatre environment within a university context.

Stage@leeds hosts a range of work by students and visiting theatre companies all year round. You’ll also have access to a wide range of specialist facilities, including multiple black-box studio theatre spaces, costume construction and wardrobe stores, a scenic workshop, dance studio and rehearsal rooms, video-editing and sound recording suites and a range of technical resources such as; portable recorders, 360-degree cameras, VR headsets and green screen technologies. You'll be supported in using these facilities by our experienced technical team.