WHAT: This online 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, 30th April – 4th June 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: £255 | Student/concession: £235 | UCL Student: £200

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

BURSARIES: No longer accepting applications.

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.

This brand new course offers you sessions delivered directly from artist-filmmaker Steven Eastwood, filmmaker Chloe White and the Stims Collective team. It is aimed at film professionals or those already within the industry, to gain skills and knowledge for the creation and delivery of co-creation and collaborative projects, and insight into how to create, programme and finance inclusive film projects.

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.

WHAT: An intensive, in-person short course (full-time for the first 3 weeks, more flexible for the final 3 weeks) in which an international body of students will complete a documentary short film.

WHERE: In person. UCL East, Marshgate Building, 7 Sidings St, London E20 2AE & occasionally central London. 

WHO: Run by UCL tutor and professional filmmaker, Katharine Round.

WHEN: 6 weeks, Monday 8^th June – 17^th July 2026 (+ 1 week extra optional edit time)

COMMITMENT: Weeks 1-3: 10 AM – 5 PM. Weeks 4-6: flexible.

WHAT YOU GET: 3 weeks contact time with tutors, filmmakers and an edit tutor. A thorough grounding in what it takes to make a documentary, both in theory and practice, 6 weeks of full access to a camera kit, and access to edit software and edit rooms.

HOW MUCH: General: £2,190.00 | Concession/Student: £2,040.00 | UCL Student: £1,970.00

DEADLINE TO SIGN UP: Monday, 11th May 2026

Please note - we accept sign-ups on a rolling basis, and this course will likely be full by this date. Unfortunately, we cannot accept payments made in instalments. If you wish to discuss reserving a spot, please email Beth at b.privitera@ucl.ac.uk

BURSARIES: This course offers a limited number of bursaries. Please read the information on our bursaries page. The deadline to apply for a bursary is Friday, 20th March.

AGES: Strictly 18+

This course explores the intimate, interdependent yet fragile relationship between words and
images and their combined potency for the creation of (cinematic) worlds.