WHAT: This in-person course is for beginners looking to work creatively and develop their skills in field recording to produce their own soundscape composition.

WHERE: Online, join sessions from your laptop or tablet.

WHO: Run by internationally recognised sound artist and composer; Nikki Sheth

WHEN: Thursday evenings, 7-9 PM, 22nd January – 26th February 2026.

COMMITMENT: 2 hours per week, plus extra work field recording and producing in your own time. (flexible to the scope of your project)

WHAT YOU GET: A theoretical and conceptual grounding in the field of soundscape, and practical lessons on how to create work from a professional, and an introduction to Reaper.

HOW MUCH: General: £225 | Student/concession: £235 | UCL Student: £200

DEADLINE TO SIGN UP: Please sign up by the 15th January.

BURSARIES: To apply for a free place subsidised by UCL, please read our Bursary Policy.

AGES: 18+

Aided by ethnographic examples from across the globe, explore the meaning of home and the role of anthropology in understanding identity and belonging.

Aimed at new and emerging documentary producers and directors, this 5-week online course provides a detailed overview at the whole pre-production process, from research, casting, proposal writing, and taster-tape making through to funding and pitching.

A popular practice-led course suited to documentary filmmakers, film academics and non-fiction enthusiasts looking to further their approach and understanding of non-fiction cinema and its theoretical applications.

Led by activist filmmaker Mario Hamad, this five-week online course will prepare you to engage with the global injustices and atrocities of the 21^st century by focusing on the concepts and techniques of filmmaking, film viewing and film dissemination as forms of political action.

An online, practice-based course exploring the theories and applications of visual and public anthropology in the context of experimental multisensory storytelling.

A COURSE FOR ARTISTS, FILMMAKERS, SCHOLARS AND ANYONE INTERESTED IN HOW WE ENGAGE WITH ARCHIVES, CULTURAL MEMORY, AND HISTORY THROUGH FILM. IT LOOKS AT THE CREATIVE STRATEGIES THAT ARTISTS HAVE USED TO PRODUCE ETHICAL REWORKINGS OF IMAGES ASSOCIATED WITH OUR TROUBLED PASTS.

The course introduces you to the possibilities and challenges of using sound to preserve knowledge and memories, spanning institutional and personal domains. Looking at different techniques for building archives in documentary film, family recordings and mixed media art, you will learn about history, ethics and methods for using sound in the context of archives.

Curators, artists, filmmakers, those with a career in the realm. Who have or an existing project or would like to develop a project idea.

WHAT: An advanced practical in-person course for those within the cultural sector,  interdisciplinary curatorial practices.

WHERE: In-Person, UCL East

WHO: Run by Ludovica Fales, UCL tutor, filmmaker and academic.

WHEN: Thursday 20^th November to Thursday 18^th December

COMMITMENT: 7-9pm

WHAT YOU GET: A chance to meet others in creative fields, develop a curatorial idea (independently or in groups) build community and share discussions facilitated by a UCL tutor and working practitioner.

HOW MUCH: Full Price: £175 | Students/Concessions: £165 | UCL Students: £155

PITCH SESSION January 8^th.

BURSARIES: This course offers bursaries. Visit the Bursary page for more info, deadline is TBC.

AGES: 18+

Across these in-person sessions, you will learn how to capture authentic human behaviour on video, generate more insightful and meaningful footage for your ethnographic research, and understand how to translate your anthropological knowledge into the business context and vice versa. You will learn how to apply video recording and editing skills with your own equipment, enabling you to continue creating after the course has finished. With guidance from the course leader, you will master the art of distilling self-shot footage into a short documentary film.

This 8-week course looks at documentaries on the city starting from the city symphonies of the 1920s to the video diaries of Jonas Mekas in New York and James Benning’s style of ‘Slow Cinema’ in Los Angeles.