elanderson555

Hello! My name is Emma. I am a part-time MA Creativity: Innovation and Business Strategy student. I also studied my undergraduate degree in English at Exeter. I spend my time networking, writing, and taking pictures. I also enjoy writing poetry on obscure subject matters and bargain hunting for vintage clothes. I work part-time as a supervisor at Paperchase and can be often found there ogling at the luxury leather-bound journals. I’m hoping that my blog can give some guidance to new and prospective students as someone who has been living in Exeter half their life and studying at the university for nearly four years now.

The Postgraduate life: Managing study and managing your routine

When I made the choice to carry on with my studies by taking on a postgraduate degree, I was left contemplating how an MA schedule would affect by routine. I also questioned how it would fit in around my current job. Funding for an MA can be covered by a government loan, but maintenance loans were scraped for postgraduate students about a year ago. I decided to work part-time and study part-time to remedy this. This way I could ensure that I would have the time to do my MA justice. However, many of my friends have managed to work part-time and study an MA full-time under more stressful time restraints. Still, I was pleased with the choice I made to go part-time while studying an MA in Creativity. An MA offers so many routes for growth and expansion that are not part of the required reading list or contact hours. In this blog, I hope to explain what life is like for a part-time MA student so that others might better be able to decide what pace they want to work at during further study. (more…)

elanderson555 May 18th, 2020 Miscellaneous, Postgraduate, Studying, The city of Exeter

Freshers’ Week and Term One: What NOT To Worry About

The days leading up to your first week of university can be emotional. I remember feeling a bizarre mixture of excitement and anxiety. My mum grew tearful over nearly everything I did, and I was permanently torn over how much I should take with me. I’m now a postgraduate student at the University of Exeter and I’ve moved five times since moving into halls nearly four academic years ago. I found that adapting to change became easier with that first step of attending Freshers’ week. To remedy those Freshers’ fears, I’ve compiled this list of things NOT to worry about as a new undergraduate. (more…)

elanderson555 May 4th, 2020 Freshers Week, Higher Education, Life on Campus, Miscellaneous, Preparing for University, Undergraduate

A Day Trip to WeTheCurious: The MA Creativity Students Play Around with Ideation

MA Creativity students interact and think at WeTheCurious.

According to trends in business and innovation studies learning to play again is the way to unlocking creative potential within one’s mind. To let go of what you think you know, strip everything back, and re-learn the basics can spark creative solutions to real life business problems. The MA Creativity: Innovation and Business Strategy students went to WeTheCurious in Bristol to test this theory for themselves. This is my record of the events of the day as one of these students. (more…)

elanderson555 April 8th, 2020 Life in the South West, Miscellaneous, Postgraduate

MA Creativity Pop-up Event: The Exeter Happinesst

As part of their term two assessment for module EAFM003, the MA Creativity students were asked to create a pop-up event in just twelve weeks. With £250 at the disposal of each group the students went about producing an event to remember. Team Happinesst were one of the lucky few able to open their event before Covid19 prevented the execution of events going forward. The Exeter Happinesst was an interactive pop-up experience celebrating happiness. As one of the team members of The Exeter Happinesst this is my journaling of the process leading up to the event and the event itself. (more…)

elanderson555 April 3rd, 2020 Miscellaneous, Postgraduate

MakeTank Game Design Project

By Emma Anderson, currently studying the MA Creativity: Innovation and Business Strategy programme

Being a part-time student has many perks: more time to think about your dissertation proposal, a lighter workload, and time to develop a career as you study. However, it also means you must wait impatiently for some of the most exciting modules on your course to come around. For me, the Ideas, Generation, the Creation Process, and Value Chain Models module was just that. (more…)

elanderson555 February 25th, 2020 Miscellaneous

MA Creativity: Innovation and Business Strategy Falmouth Intensive

By Emma Anderson, studying MA Creativity: Innovation and Business Strategy

Between the 12th and 14th of November the MA Creativity: Innovation and Business Strategy students set off in pursuit of an intensive networking project in Falmouth. The intensive would involve working alongside Falmouth MA students to impress the likes of Tate St Ives, Seasalt, Stranger Collective, and Fiffteen Cornwall. In just two days they had to answer their given project brief with a pitch with enough professionalism to impress their assigned business. At the prospect of bagging a potential placement opportunity in April should their work impress, the students set about collaborating on the brief in hand. This is my journal blog documenting my experience as one of the MA Creativity students. (more…)

elanderson555 February 11th, 2020 Miscellaneous