<div dir="ltr">Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) is currently seeking partnerships with UK arts organisations to provide students with valuable experience in relevant fields to their course of study. The students are approaching the end of their studies and have training in performance, broadcast, music, live events – all aspects of media, stage and screen. The students need to complete a short work placement during the current term.<br>
<br>We are especially looking for any radio-related experience opportunities, any small or large acting opportunities of any description, community video, experience with any drama groups working with school/hospitals/community groups etc doing workshops or performances of any kind, or musicians for anything from live events to composing pieces for recording, helpers for media events etc.<br>
<br>If you are interested to work with us, and think you may be able to offer some worthwhile experience to our students, please email Diane Rodgers <a href="mailto:d.rodgers@shu.ac.uk" target="_blank">d.rodgers@shu.ac.uk</a> for further information. Students may be placed anywhere in the UK.<br>
<br>_________________________________________________<br><br>Please read on for some more background information:<br><br>Within Sheffield Hallam University, the Stage & Screen department currently offers richly diverse performance courses that have a strong practitioner edge. Final year students have studied performance from a range of different perspectives such as; drama, popular music, radio and broadcast media, stand up comedy, applied drama, acting for the screen – and will have had some training in their chosen area of interest.<br>
<br>As students approach the end of their studies it is vital that they begin to apply their theoretical and technical knowledge, as well as observe the work of practitioners in the field and Sheffield Hallam University is keen to develop links to cultural industries and community media, particularly in the South Yorkshire region but elsewhere in the UK too.<br>
<br>Students undertake an attachment to the organisations; this attachment can be in the form of a placement, shadowing etc. and should last for between 5 and 15 days (not necessarily in one block of time), although they may be available for paid work on a longer term basis. Students will then be asked to reflect upon their experience and research their chosen placement and evaluate what their priorities will be after they complete their studies.<br>
<br>At this stage, the University is interested in building relationships with community media organisations with a view to placements beginning next academic year (<b>late Sep/Oct 2014</b>). If you would be interested in working with us, we would be keen to hear what you feel you could use student(s) for, and what kind of experience you could offer them. What areas of your work might they be able to observe/get involved with etc.? For example: events planning, sound engineering/lighting, rehearsals, broadcasting, performing, involvement with live events etc.? <br>
<br>We are aiming for the partnerships to be useful to both the organisations and of course the students themselves in terms of offering some kind of meaningful experience for them.<br><br>Sheffield Hallam University is passionate about developing a closer links with the cultural industry and community media, and is always seeking to reflect innovations, new ideas and feedback from industry practitioners to inform and develop their programme of study for the future.<br>
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